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All men would be tyrants if they could. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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There are notes between notes, you know. ↗

— Sarah Vaughan

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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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You can't take back an act you were able to think. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. ↗

— Edgar Degas

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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations. ↗

— Barbara Deming

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Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don't make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death. ↗

— Stevie Ray Vaughan

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