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 ====== Quotes That I Like ======
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+People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of 'race' or 'gender' alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favor for the identical reason. Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things.\\
+   <wrap attribution>-- Christopher Hitchens</wrap>\\
+   <wrap quote-comment>This is probably the only thing Christopher Hitchens ever said that I would agree with.</wrap>
+</wrap>
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+Diversity for diversity's sake is nothing but discrimination.\\
+   <wrap attribution>-- me</wrap>
+</wrap>
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+People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.\\
+   <wrap attribution>-- Dale Carnegie</wrap>
+</wrap>
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+There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.\\
+   <wrap attribution>-- George Bernard Shaw</wrap>
+</wrap>
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+Everything is habit-forming, so make sure what you do is what you want to be doing.\\
+<wrap attribution>-- Wilt Chamberlain</wrap>
+</wrap>
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+Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.\\
+<wrap attribution>-- Marcus Tullius Cicero</wrap>
+</wrap>
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+The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.\\
+<wrap attribution>-- Dorothy Parker</wrap>
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+The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.\\
+<wrap attribution>-- George Orwell</wrap>\\
+<wrap quote-comment>Exactly what is being taught is our schools right now. (the Left, BLM/Marxist, Critical Race Theory)</wrap>
+</wrap>
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+Tolerance and Apathy Are The Last Virtues Of A Dying Society\\
+<wrap attribution> -- Aristotle</wrap>
+</wrap>
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+A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.\\
+<wrap attribution>-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</wrap>\\
+</wrap>
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-Diversity for diversity's sake is nothing but discrimination.\\
+Democrats - Brave enough to kill the unborn but not the enemy.\\
-<wrap attribution>-- Dean Frickey</wrap>
+<wrap attribution> -- unknown</wrap>
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 I've never regretted anything I didn't say.\\
-<wrap attribution>-- Dean Frickey (I thought I read this but I can't find it if I did so I'm claiming originatorship)</wrap>
+<wrap attribution>-- me (I thought I read this but I can't find it if I did so I'm claiming originatorship)</wrap>
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 If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.\\
 <wrap attribution>-- Abraham Lincoln</wrap>
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-The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.\\
-<wrap attribution>-- George Orwell</wrap>\\
-<wrap quote-comment>(Exactly what the Left, BLM (i.e. Marxist), and CRT is currently teaching in our own country.)</wrap>
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