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We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.
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The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.
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Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve.
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A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.

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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
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Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
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Time stays, we go.
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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Life is a dead-end street.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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