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When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being. ↗

— Kate Millett

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What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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What this means is that the first week of every new series of ads will continue to yield softer results than you can expect to see in weeks two and three. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. ↗

— Aristotle

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Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means to find oneself caught in a mechanism, in a trap increasingly demanding and endless. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

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I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

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Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

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