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"I will not condone a course of action that will lead us to war."
Queen Amidala
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"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent."
Qui-Gon Jinn
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"There's always a bigger fish."
Qui-Gon Jinn
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"Monsters out there, leaking in here, we'sa all sinking and no power! When are you'sa thinking we'sa in trouble?"
Jar-Jar Binks
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"I don't believe we have been introduced. R2-D2, a pleasure to meet you. I am C-3PO, human cyborg relations."
C-3PO
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"Remember, concentrate on the moment. Feel, don't think. Use your instincts."
Qui-Gon Jinn
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"A democracy is a state which recognises the subjecting of the minority to the majority."
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
Douglas Adams
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"'A cucumber is bitter.' Throw it away. 'There are briars in the road.' Turn aside from them. This is enough. Do not add, 'And why were such things made in the world?'"
Marcus Aurelius
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"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity."
Sigmund Freud
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"All democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it; none but the republicans and mugwumps know it. All the republicans are insane, but only the democrats and mugwumps can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."
Mark Twain
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to 'hunger and thirst' after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes."
Charlie D. Broad
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"A hundred years ago there lived a philosopher named Jeremy Bentham, who was universally recognized to be a very wicked man. I remember to this day the first time that I came across his name when I was a boy. It was in a statement by the Rev. Sydney Smith to the effect that Bentham thought people ought to make soup of their dead grandmothers. The practice appeared to me as undesirable from a culinary as from a moral point of view, and I therefore conceived a bad opinion of Bentham."
Bertrand Russell
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"A lot of people now find belief in God immature, and eventually a lot of people may find realism immature."
Richard Rorty
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"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
Albert Einstein
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"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
Max Planck
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"A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press."
Gottlob Frege
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"A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers."
Albert Camus
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"A slight perusal of the laws by which the measures of vindictive and coercive justice are established will discover so many disproportions between crimes and punishments, such capricious distinctions of guilt, and such confusion of remissness and severity as can scarcely be believed to have been produced by public wisdom, sincerely and calmly studious of public happiness."
Samuel Johnson
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"A spectre is haunting the world - the spectre of communism."
Karl Marx
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"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."
Aristotle
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"A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"A year later the war broke out and robbed the world of its beauties. It destroyed not only the beauty of the countrysides through which it passed and the works of art which it met in its path but also shattered our pride in the achievements of civilization, our admiration for many philosophers and artists and our hopes for a final triumph over the differences between nations and races. It tarnished the lofty impartiality of science, it revealed our instincts in all their nakedness and let loose the evil spirits within us which we thought had been tamed for ever by centuries of continuous education by the noblest minds. It made our country small again and made the rest of the world far remote. It robbed us of very much that we had loved, and showed us how ephemeral were many things that we regarded as changeless."
Sigmund Freud
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"Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction: therefore it destroys freedom."
Albert Camus
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