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I may not be a genius, but my opponents are certifiable idiots.

— Miriam Defensor Santiago

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My only purpose is to serve out the rest of my life.

I have said this before, and I will say it again: All things work for good to those who love God.

Entering politics is a fate worse than death.

You have to communicate in a certain way. You don't just enter social media for your own benefit.

What our country needs is a sense of shared destiny.

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Each of these private teachers who work for pay ... inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.

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Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

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Like every 'intellectual', a philosophy teacher is a petty bourgeois. When he opens his mouth, it is petty-bourgeois ideology that speaks: its resources and ruses are infinite.

Louis Althusser Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1968)

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