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Only my condemnation injures me.
Control
A Course In Miracles

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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
Benefactors
Joseph Addison

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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Imagination
Muhammad Ali

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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
State
Henri Frederic Amiel

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A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
Freedom
Kemal Ataturk

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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
Sin
W. H. Auden

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
Action
Red Auerbach

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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Imagination
Lauren Bacall

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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Literature
Gaston Bachelard

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Proverbs
Francis Bacon

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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Manners
Honore De Balzac

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I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
Theater
Howard Barker

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There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.
Alienation
Roland Barthes

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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Imagination
Henry Ward Beecher

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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
Conservatives
Henry Ward Beecher

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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
Repentance
Willard Beecher

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Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
Money
Aphra Behn

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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
Lies and Lying
Hilaire Belloc

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Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
Independence
David Ben-Gurion

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Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a blame to any people.
Sin
Bible

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Incompatibility. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.
Marriage
Ambrose Bierce

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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
Peace
Ambrose Bierce

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Good luck needs no explanation.
Luck
Shirley Temple Black

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Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!
War
Alexander Blok

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.
Nations
Henry Bolingbroke

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun