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The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army. ↗

— Robert Trout

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Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. ↗

— William Dunbar

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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

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Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy, I never tire. ↗

— John Dyer

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People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent. ↗

— Bob Dylan

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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. ↗

— Bob Dylan

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But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it. ↗

— Esther Dyson

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It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

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It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption. ↗

— James Thurber

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