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I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. ↗

— John Adams

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We youths say “like” all the time because we mistrust reality. ↗

— James S. Kunen

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When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people. ↗

— Kelly Bryson

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إذا بات قدر الكاتب الذى يعلن إنتمائه الاسلامى و يصر أن يخوض بدينه معركة التقدم , أن يواجه فى مسيرته ثلاث معارك فى آن واحد . أولها ضد الناقدين للإسلام , و ثانيها ضد المتربصين بالعاملين فى ميدان الدعوة , و الثالثة مع فصائل المتدينين انفسهم ↗

— فهمي هويدي

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The thing I want to write most is the next thing I write. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

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Never allow anyone to define you! Just be you! ↗

— Chrys Phillips

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The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. ↗

— Abigail Adams

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