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I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. ↗

— James Madison

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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. ↗

— James Madison

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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. ↗

— James Madison

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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. ↗

— Maimonides

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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt. ↗

— Maimonides

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Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly. ↗

— Janet Malcolm

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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. ↗

— Malcolm X

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Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference. ↗

— David Mamet

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If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions. ↗

— David Mamet

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I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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