The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
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Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.
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When the judge calls the criminal's name out he stands up, and they are immediately linked by a strange biology that makes them both opposite and complementary. The one cannot exist without the other. Which is the sun and which is the shadow It's well known some criminals have been great men.
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The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
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What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
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