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#1

“Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.”
― Winston Churchill

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#2

“Chastity: The most unnatural of the sexual perversions.”
― Aldous Huxley

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#3

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: criticism, humor, writing

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#4

“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
― James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty

tags: democracy, freedom, government, misattributed-ben-franklin, paraphrase-gary-strand

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#5

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#6

“I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: christ, religion, south

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#7

“If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: survival

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#8

“Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#9

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: conflict, politics, war

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#10

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism

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#11

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth

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#12

“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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#13

“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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#14

“Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

tags: lazarus-long-lives

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