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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Abraham Lincoln

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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment."

Albert Einstein

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“In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.”

HG Wells

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"Ruling the country is like cooking a small fish."

Lao Tzu

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For me there is a mission for this country moving forward - there are big long term decisions we've got to take as a nation.

Gordon Brown

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Recovery is not an event, it's a process.

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It's dangerous for our children to even know that your philosophy exists.

Representative Monique D. Davis of Illinois

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All human beings form one family whose members are united by their subordination to Allah.

Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam

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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King

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We are aware of the consequences of exercising the right of free expression, we can and we are ready to self-regulate that right.

Franco Frattini

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There are two kinds of liberty -- the liberty of anarchy, which is death, and the true liberty, which alone is worth a wise man's caring for, the liberty which is made possible by obedience to rational authority.

James Anthony Froude

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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius

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I don’t want to live in a society where I get stoned for committing adultery. I want to live in a society where I get stoned. And then commit adultery.

Ibn Warraq

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Religion is for people who don't like hard questions.

Spud (age 9)

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The idea that Americans are stupid is a piece of racial condescension of which Europeans are often guilty.

David Hare

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It has been established beyond doubt that the placebo-controlled, randomised controlled trial is not a fitting research tool with which to test homeopathy.

Society of Homeopaths

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I have no bumperstickers, for the same reason I do not paste editorials with which I agree on the seat of my pants.

James Lileks.

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The marines that I have had wounded over the past five months have been attacked by a faceless enemy. But the enemy has got a face. He's called Satan. He lives in Falluja. And we're going to destroy him.

Lt Col Gareth F Brandl, 1/8 Marines