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“Let me tell you about gays in the military. I don't want any gay people hanging around me while I'm killing kids. I just don't want to see it.”
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“It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.”
― How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism
― How to Change the World: Reflections on Marx and Marxism
“For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person. (on Margaret Thatcher)”
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“All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.”
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“If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.”
― The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
― The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
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