Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Laws are like cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
~ Jonathan Swift
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Of all the nations in the world the French are the most renowned for singing over their grievances. Of that country it has been remarked with some truth, that its whole history may be traced in its songs.
~ Charles MacKay
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I had never encountered anything like the world or the words of Chester Himes. But I knew I wanted more. The next book I devoured was “Blind Man With a Pistol,” a deeply twisted and morally ambiguous novel about the senseless nature of violence. A work that is both terrifying and philosophical, it was a watershed moment for this young wannabe writer that also just happens to have one of the most fearless endings in crime fiction history.
~ S.A. Cosby via The New York Times
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
~ Henri-Louis Bergson
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Whatever else it is, Jewish nationalism — that is, Zionism — is the oldest continuous anticolonial movement in history, starting well before the Romans sought to de-Judaize the area by calling their Levantine colony Palestina. Hanukkah, the festival of lights, is one such reminder, celebrating the recovery of Jerusalem from colonizing Greeks in the second century B.C.E.
~ Brett Stephens via The New York Times
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National loyalty involves a love of home and a preparedness to defend it; nationalism is a belligerent ideology, which uses national symbols in order to conscript the people to war.
~ Roger Scruton
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Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure.
~ Jeremy Bentham
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The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
~ Blaise Pascal
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
~ Jonathan Swift
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