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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

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Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

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Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

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