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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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It is hard to say why politicians are called servants, unless it is because a good one is hard to find. ↗

— Gerald F. Lieberman

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision. ↗

— John Major

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But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

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International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

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To the socialist no nation is free whose national existence is based upon the enslavement of another people, for to him colonial peoples, too, are peoples, and, as such, parts of the national state. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

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