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The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.


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Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.



My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.



If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.



There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery



When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.



Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.



Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole



Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.



Follow your own path, no matter what people say.

Follow your own path, no matter what people say.



The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.





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Once I was a couple. I was my own king and queen with cheese and bread and rosé on the rocks of Rockport.

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The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.



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A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.



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