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Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people. ↗

— Anwar Sadat

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In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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So-called intellectuals have ego-power; Fools have willpower. ↗

— Saurabh Sharma

#humor #inspirational-attitude #mind #motivation #attitude

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#death #philosophy #death

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#misfortunes #mode #others #thought

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much. ↗

— George Saintsbury

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I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause. ↗

— Edward Said

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