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“Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.”
― Thomas Paine, Common Sense

tags: expedience, oppression, right

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“A certain king had a beautiful garden, and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples.”
― Jacob Grimm, The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

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“Is the man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

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“We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.”
― Mary Shelley

tags: pessimistic

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