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Memoir is a unique opportunity to revisit yourself. I don't mean by memory. I mean in the revision process. You don't just write a chapter and that's it. You must constantly return to it. You must dote on it. And even if it's saying something ugly about who you are, you have to find the poetry in it. You have to find the poetry in yourself.

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Thomas Paine

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

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To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

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To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected

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A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

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The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

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Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

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