obscenity is not pornography, obscenity is that someone could die of hunger
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of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity
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of all things that are certain, the most certain is doubt
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of course a platonic relationship is possible - but only between husband and wife - Anonymous
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of course the people don't want war. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country
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often we do good so that we can then do evil with impunity
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oh! don't use big words. They mean so little - Oscar Wilde
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old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man
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on the subject of values: we keep money in a safe, but dreams...in a drawer
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on today's world stage we westerners are, unfortunately, the only actors and the only spectators, and so, through our television and our press, we listen only to our reasons and feel only our sorrows
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on we go blinded by those puerile and insane religions invented by our forefathers against the terrors of the great unknown
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once I read a dictionary from cover to cover; I thought it was a lovely poem about everything - Ophelia
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one achieves self-control only by dint of lack of restraint. The brothel defends the house
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one can really forgive a man for being a fool for an hour when there are so many who never stop being fools even for an hour in their entire life
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one day we will be people again, and not only Jews
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one does not conduct politics with morality, but neither can one conduct them without
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one does not fear vice in men, because it enslaves them; virtue yes, because it makes them masters
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one does not sell the earth upon which the people walk - Tashunka Witko 'Crazy Horse'
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one is able to adopt the strategy of a lover only when not in love
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one is easily fooled by that which one loves
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one is not born a woman, one becomes a woman
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one is not deceived by one's senses, but by one's judgement
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one is not what one is for that which one writes, but for that which one has read
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one is worth as many people as the languages one knows
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one may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth
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one must be very strong to love solitude
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one never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going
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one never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done
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one of the advantages of not being happy is that one can long for happiness
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one of the advantages of pleasure over pain is that for pleasure you can say 'stop'
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one of the benefits of group sex is that, if someone wants, they can take a nap - Woody Allen
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one of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine - William Osler
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one of the greatest pleasures in life is friendship, and one of the pleasures of friendship is to have someone in whom to confide a secret
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one of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter - James Earl Jones
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one of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer - Lord Byron
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one person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests - John Stuart Mill
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one should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry - Oscar Wilde
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one should always play fairly when one has the winning cards - Oscar Wilde
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one shows respect for books by using them
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one starts to get young at the age of sixty, and unfortunately it's too late
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one weeps more for prayers answered than for those unanswered
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one's real life is often the life that one does not lead - Oscar Wilde
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only a fool would choose war over peace - for in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers their sons
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only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last river has been poisoned, only after the last fish has been caught, only then will you find that money cannot be eaten - Cree Indian Prophecy
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only at the extremes of the social scale are kings recognised
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only cultured people like learning; ignoramuses prefer to teach
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only great men have great faults
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only he who is without expectation is truly free - Edward Young
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only idiots have no doubts. Are you sure? I have no doubt!
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only if you are on the road to sunset boulevard can you encounter a rosy morn
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only one who is very unhappy has the right to pity another
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only silence is great; all else is weakness
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only someone who does not aspire to virtue is without virtue
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only someone who has no fear of dying for the truth is worthy of speaking it
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only that which I have lost belongs to me for always
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only that which is not paid for proves costly
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only the brave know how to forgive. A coward never - it is not in his nature - Laurence Sterne
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only the dead have the right to forgive and the living have no right to forget
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only the dead see the end of war
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only the human rights of the legal persons are respected
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only the vigilance of public opinion ensures the future of any society - Noam Chomsky
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only the winners decide what were war crimes - Gary Wills
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only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly - Robert F. Kennedy
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only those who want to pay taxes should live in tax havens: so small are they all
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only through usage shall words be made good, true and legitimate words of a language
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only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars - Martin Luther King
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opulence is the ruin of the rich and augments the misery of the poor
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organized crime is just the other (dirty) face of the dollar - Raymond Chandler
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originality is undetected plagiarism - William R. Inge
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our bourgeois, not content with having the wives and daughters of their proletarians at their disposal, not to speak of common prostitutes, takes the greatest pleasure in seducing each other's wives
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our conscience is no defence against our sins, however, it unfortunately denies us the pleasure of enjoying them
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our current economy system is a global machine that is destroying the environment and producing millions of losers that nobody knows what to do with - Susan George
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our greatest and most glorious achievement is to live as we should. Everything else such as ruling, ammassing wealth and constructing are at most only adjuncts and props
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our intellect not only makes us more rational, unfortunately it also makes us more dangerous - Simon Wiesenthal
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our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it - Thomas Jefferson
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our lives end the day we become silent about things that really matter - Martin Luther King
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our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control - Cyril Connolly
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our morals rectify our instinctive errors, and love our moral errors
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our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death
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over the last three decades, we have drifted from having a market economy to becoming a market society. A market economy is a tool a valuable and effective tool for organizing productive activity. But a ‘market society’ is a place where everything is up for sale. It is a way of life where market values govern every sphere of life - Michael Sandel
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ownership is a trap: what we think we own in fact owns us
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