"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."
-Lily Tomlin
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"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.“
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"Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?"
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"If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?"
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"Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed."
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"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."
-Vladimir Lenin
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"There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other."
-Eric Hoffer
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"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
-John Lennon
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"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
-Edmund Burke
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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
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