pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians
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pain, that kills pain, serves as medicine
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paradigm of stupidity - Money transforms fidelity into infidelity, love into hate, hate into love, virtue into vice, vice into virtue, servant into master, master into servant, idiocy into intelligence, and intelligence into idiocy
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part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest - Isaac Asimov
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Pasolini was killed in 1975 and it is surprising to see how the silencing of just one voice could cost an entire nation so dear
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passions are defects or virtues, only if carried to the extreme
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paths are made by walking
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patriotism is the least discerning of the passions
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patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it - George Bernard Shaw
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paying taxes is synonymous with being on the Left
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peace is not God's gift to his creatures, peace is our gift to each other
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peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, and justice
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peace within oneself is necessary to counteract the terror messages with which the powers-that-be try to aggravate everyone's lives
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people are divided into two groups - the righteous and the unrighteous - and the righteous do the dividing - Oscar Wilde
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people are more willing to sympathize with unhappiness than happiness
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people are only ridiculous when they want to be or to appear to be what they are not
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people are subjected so often to opinion polls that now they have no opinion at all
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people become heroes only when they cannot be otherwise
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people believe to be free but they are only free to believe it - Jim Morrison
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people do not die for lack of incomes. They die for lack of access to resources - Vandana Shiva
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people don't have great ideas, great ideas find people
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people never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt
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people of a sanguinary nature display a natural propensity to cruelty with regard to animals
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people should know the risks they run trying to commit suicide - Ron C. Carman
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people travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars; and they pass right by themselves without astonishment
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people who boasted that they had made a revolution have always seen the next day that they had no idea what they were doing, that the revolution made did not in the least resemble the one they would have liked to make
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people who never laugh, are not serious
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people who talk a lot don't say anything
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people who use their intelligence are rare, few are those who show good-heartedness, and unique are those who employ both
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people will swim through shit if you put a few shillings in it - Peter Sellers
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people won't let you live the way you want to, but if you're strong enough, at least you don't have to live the way they want you to - Andrew H. Vachss
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people, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction - Alexander Chase
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perhaps the aim nowadays is not to discover what we are, but to refute what we are
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perhaps the best of us are those who are aware that they are worth no more than the nothingness that surrounds them
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permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws - Mayer Amschel Rothschild
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personally I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught - Winston Churchill
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pessimism has to do with intelligence; optimism with will
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pessimist: one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both - Oscar Wilde
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pharmaceutical companies are better at inventing diseases that match existing drugs, rather than inventing drugs to match existing diseases - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways, but now it is a matter of changing it
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physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it - Richard P. Feynman
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Picasso is a painter, so am I; Picasso is Spanish, so am I; Picasso is a communist, neither am I
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please forgive me if I call you gentlemen, but I don't know you very well - Groucho Marx
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plundering, slaughtering, stealing, these things they misname empire; and where they create a wilderness, they call it peace
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poetry adds life to life
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poetry is the art of putting the ocean into a glass
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poetry is the union of two words which one does not imagine can be united and which form something just as in a mystery
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poetry, like bread, is for everyone
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poets are people who can still see the world throught the eyes of children
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poets treat their experiences shamelessly: they exploit them
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politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax
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political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize - Tom Lehrer
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politicians are just the bankers' waiters - Ezra Pound
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politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel - John Quinton
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politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river
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politicians of the Left say that those of the Right are dangerous for our country, those of the Right in turn say the same thing about their colleagues of the Left. I would simply put forward the idea that perhaps both are dangerous
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politicians speak for their parties, and parties never are, never have been, and never will be wrong - Walter Dwight
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politics - the art of dealing with public life - is the work of politicians who are artists in private affairs
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politics and mafia are both powers that draw life from controlling the same territory, so they either wage war or come to some form of agreement
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politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics
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politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does - Groucho Marx
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politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable - John Kenneth Galbraith
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politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first - Ronald Reagan
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politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies - Groucho Marx
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politics is the art of seeing that people do not become interested in that which concerns them
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politics is the entertainment department of industry - Frank Zappa
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politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other - Oscar Ameringer
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politics is the shadow cast on society by big business - John Dewey
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politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed
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Politics must be conducted in an honest manner
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politics: a balancing act between people who want to become involved and those who don't want to become uninvolved
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politics: a conflict of interests masquerading as a contest of principles - Ambrose Bierce
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poor are not those who have too little, but those who want too much
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poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell - Walter Bagehot
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poverty of language debilitates: it risks making us slaves to other people's ideas
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practical politics consists in ignoring facts - Henry Brooks Adams
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premature ideas do not exist, one must bide one's time until the right moment comes along
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pretending to be a fool, Pinochet has shown great intelligence... military
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probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release - Germaine Greer
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progress in this world is made by achieving things deemed impossible
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prohibition has made nothing but trouble - Al Capone
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propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies - Frances Cornford
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property monopolized or in the possession of the few is a curse to mankind - John Adams
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proving that I am right would be admitting that I could be wrong
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prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by incapacity - William Blake
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Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force - Oscar Wilde
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punishments serve to frighten those who do not want to commit sins
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pupils eat that which the teachers have digested
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