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Ten Random Quotes

"God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers."
Ernest Hemingway

"Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black."
James A. Baldwin

"I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns."
Winston Churchill

"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."
Francis Bacon

"While maintaining our nuclear potential at the proper level, we need to devote more attention to developing the entire range of means of information warfare"
Boris Yeltsin

"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
Adlai Stevenson

"He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him."
John Dryden

"Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students."
Christopher Dodd

"War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory."
Georges Clemenceau

"Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere."
Mary Schmich

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