This world, the whole of the planet called earth, is the common country of all who live and breathe upon it.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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Category Archives: 1659 – Quote Unquote
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred in the company.
~ Jonathan Swift
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There is no idea that does not carry in itself a possible refutation, no word that does not imply its opposite.
~ Marcel Proust
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Hail fellow, well met.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.
~ Friedrich Schiller
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You can draw the blinds in a brothel, but people still know what you’re doing.
~ Iain Banks
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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
~ Henri-Louis Bergson
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Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
~ Blaise Pascal
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Ideologies capable of influencing and winning the acceptance of great masses of people are an indispensable verbal cement holding the fabric of any given type of society together.
~ James Burnham
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