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The Odyssey
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In The Odyssey, we find instead the story of a man whose grand adventure is simply to go back to his own home, where he tries to turn everything back to the way it was before he went away. For this hero, mere survival is the most amazing
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“Tell my father I wish to be his son.”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
“The inhabitant of New England is attached to his township not so much because he was born there as because he sees in that township a free and strong corporation that he is a part of and that is worth his trouble to seek to direct.”
― Democracy in America
― Democracy in America
“Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.”
― An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
― An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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