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“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
― Mark Twain

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
― Ernest Benn

“Good music always defeats bad luck.”
― Jack Vance

“I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.”
― O. Henry

“У нас в России в высших сферах существует страсть к завоеваниям, или вернее к захватам того, что, по мнению правительства, плохо лежит.”
― Sergey Yulyevich Vitte, С. Ю. Витте. Воспоминания. В трех томах. Том 2

“...После того, как мы поглотили целую массу чуждых нам племён и захватили их земли - теперь в Думе и "Новом Времени" явилась полукомическая национальная партия, которая объявляет, что, мол, Россия должна быть для русских, то есть для тех которые исповедуют православную религию, фамилия которых кончается на "ов" и которые читают "Русское Знамя" и "Голос Москвы".”
― Sergey Yulyevich Vitte, С. Ю. Витте. Воспоминания. В трех томах. Том 2

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.

When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.”
― Wisława Szymborska, Poems New and Collected

“Инновация – это когда то, что уже есть, выдаётся за то, чего ещё не было.”
― Сергей Валериевич Бережной

“Magicians protect their secrets not because the secrets are large and important, but because they are so small and trivial. The wonderful effects created on stage are often the result of a secret so absurd that the magician would be embarrassed to admit that that was how it was done.”
― Christopher Priest

“Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
― Daniel Defoe

“Thank God I'm an atheist!”
― Luis Bunuel

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta