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The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry. ↗

— Ernest Gellner

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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. ↗

— Jean Genet

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Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men. ↗

— David Lloyd George

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Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

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I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view. ↗

— Elizabeth George

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Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it. ↗

— George III

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What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. ↗

— Henry George

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Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk. ↗

— W. L. George

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The most popular labor-saving device is still money. ↗

— Phyllis George

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Is it not dangerous to have students study together for years, copying the same models and approximately the same path? ↗

— Theodore Gericault

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