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If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people. ↗

— Karel Capek

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People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them. ↗

— Karel Capek

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What breaks capitalism, all that will ever break capitalism, is capitalists. The faster they run the more strain on their heart. ↗

— Raymond Williams

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We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. ↗

— Constantin Stanislavski

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Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote. ↗

— Lucy Powell

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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities. ↗

— Benjamin Cardozo

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If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare. ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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