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“A man like me should carry his burdens alone. If he doesn't people get hurt”

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Dennis O'Neil is an American comic book writer, born on May 3, 1939. He is renowned for his significant contributions to DC Comics, particularly for his work on characters like Batman and Green Lantern. more

“The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few by what has been appropriately termed the 'ruling class'. The ruling class has many manifestations. It can take the form of a religious orthodoxy, a monarchy, a dictatorship of the proletariat, outright fascism, or, in the case of the United States, corporate statism. In each instance the ruling class relies on academics, scholars and 'experts' to legitimize and provide moral authority for its hegemony over the masses.”

“Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it.... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.”

Thinking Life Looks Matter Results Offers Notes Rounds Satisfied Occasions Live Life Smallest Trifles

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'”

People Ifs Believe Made Said Stills Law Belief Prayer Offers Hills Again And Again Observers

Author:Francis Bacon

“Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.”

People Made Water Succeed Sentences Dry Good People Quarrels Pioneers

Author:George A. Smith

“There is but one element of government, and that is THE PEOPLE. From this element spring all governments. "For a nation to be free, it is only necessary that she wills it." For a nation to be slave, it is only necessary that she wills it.”

People Government Nations Elements Spring Slave

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“The Legislative cannot transfer the Power of Making Laws to any other hands. For it being but a delegated Power from the People, they who have it, cannot pass it over to others. The People alone can appoint the Form of the Commonwealth, which is by Constituting the Legislative, and appointing in whose hands that shall be.”

People Hands Form Law Transfers Commonwealth

Book:THE WORKS OF JOHN LOCKE, Esq;: In THREE VOLUMES. To which is Added, The LIFE of the AUTHOR; AND A COLLECTION of Several of His PIECES Published by Mr. DESMAIZEAUX.

Source: THE WORKS OF JOHN LOCKE, Esq;: In THREE VOLUMES. To which is Added, The LIFE of the AUTHOR; AND A COLLECTION of Several of His PIECES Published by Mr. DESMAIZEAUX.

“I used to think, if I were the Lord, I would not suffer people to be tried as they are. But I have changed my mind on that subject. Now I think I would, if I were the Lord, because it purges out the meanness and corruption that stick around the saints, like flies around molasses.”

People Ifs Thinking Mind Used Suffering Change Lord Subjects Changed Sticks Saint Corruption Meanness I Have Changed Molasses

Author:John Taylor

“Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.”

Virtue Library Ancient Saint Delusion Relics Shrines Libraries And Librarians

Book:The Major Works

Source: The Major Works

“It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections”

Running America Form Leader Economy Periods Taxes Bases Irony Collections Soviet Smooth Philanthropy Splendid Breakdown Frantic Evasion Tax Evasion

Book:Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties

Source: Modern times: the world from the twenties to the nineties

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