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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.


Daniel Defoe

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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could
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DAVID DOBSON I saw the Cloud, though I did not foresee the Storm.
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ARUNDHATI ROY I would read all day if I could.
QUVENZHANE WALLIS Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.
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WILLIAM PENN Our preference would have been that a government mandate of this nature be proposed and debated in t...
MARK STINNEFORD What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them....
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VICTOR HUGO If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.
ALPHONSE KARR If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.
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MICHAEL BEN ZEHABE ...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put s...
ABIGAIL ADAMS ...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put s...
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JAMES MADISON I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth. It is good to brush your teeth when you are angry, becau...
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FLORYNCE R. KENNEDY If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
GLORIA STEINEM If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament
ROSE F. KENNEDY If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
FLORYNCE KENNEDY If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody ...
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DANIEL ESPINOSA I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I thi...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
DANIEL ESPINOSA I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.'
DANIEL ESPINOSA I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.
DANIEL ESPINOSA Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I al...
DANIEL ESPINOSA It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he t...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
DANIEL ESPINOSA If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience w...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.
DANIEL ESPINOSA When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
DANIEL ESPINOSA It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their age...
DANIEL ESPINOSA The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret...
DANIEL ELLSBERG I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
DANIEL ELLSBERG It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn'...
DANIEL ELLSBERG If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I hav...
DANIEL ELLSBERG President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several tim...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanis...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vie...
DANIEL ELLSBERG If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
DANIEL ELLSBERG Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be beli...
DANIEL ELLSBERG