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    Otto von Bismarck
    “Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”
    ― Otto von Bismarck
    tags: politics
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    Otto von Bismarck
    “It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.”
    ― Otto von Bismarck
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    Otto von Bismarck
    “People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.”
    ― Otto von Bismarck
    tags: lies
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    Otto von Bismarck
    “Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.”
    ― Otto von Bismarck
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    Otto von Bismarck
    “God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.”
    ― Otto von Bismarck
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    Otto von Bismarck
    “Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.”
    ― Otto von Bismarck
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: hell, perseverance
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    ― Winston Churchill
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: animals, cats, dogs, equality, pigs, respect
    2001 likes

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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: apocryphal, attributed-no-source, classic-insult, drinking, drunkenness, retort
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: best, forlorn-hope, perseverance, resolve
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”
    ― Winston Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force
    tags: causation, fact, relief, results, sea, theory
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: appeasement, human, humor, nature, politics
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    Voltaire
    “The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: philosophical
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
    4073 likes

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    Voltaire
    “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

    (Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: enmity, humor, prayers, religion, ridicule, satire, social-justice, social-life
    1346 likes

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  • #20
    Voltaire
    “Common sense is not so common.”
    ― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
    tags: apothegm, common-sense
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  • #21
    Voltaire
    “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: guilt
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  • #22
    Voltaire
    “I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?”
    ― Voltaire, Candide, or, Optimism
    tags: mortality
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    Voltaire
    “The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: self-delusion
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  • #24
    Voltaire
    “If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #25
    Joan Crawford
    “I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man.”
    ― Joan Crawford
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    Voltaire
    “Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.”
    ― Voltaire
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  • #27
    Voltaire
    “The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: gospel-truth
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  • #28
    “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
    ― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire
    tags: disagreement, evelyn-beatrice-hall, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, misattributed-to-voltaire
    1764 likes



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