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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs.
Author:
A. Yehoshua
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Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.
Author:
Thornton Wilder
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The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.
Author:
Paul Westerberg
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We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay.
Author:
George Weinberg
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There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place.
Author:
Paul Watzlawick
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The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.
Author:
Paul Watzlawick
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Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.
Author:
Alan Vega
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But of course it's always gonna be Suicide, our fingerprints, ya know? You can't ever get rid of that.
Author:
Alan Vega
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Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
Author:
Harry Truman
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Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
Author:
Arnold Toynbee
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The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.
Author:
Randall Terry
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I have a new joke today. Martha Stewart's on suicide watch. They had to unplug all of her ovens.
Author:
Rip Taylor
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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked and sorry. I never knew her personally.
Author:
Anne Stevenson
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We might be on the brink of an apocalypse if, instead of poor people with suicide bombs killing middle class guys, middle-class people with suicide bombs started killing rich guys.
Author:
Bruce Sterling
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People think that being on Star Trek is career suicide, but it's really just the opposite.
Author:
Brent Spiner
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AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.
Author:
Barry Sheene
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Suicide bombers caused us more than 50 percent of our casualties. The fence works. There is a decline in the number of those terrorist attacks against Israelis.
Author:
Silvan Shalom
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We have been in the territories since 1967. In 2002, we had sometimes three or four suicide attacks every day. We came to the conclusion that it can't continue like that.
Author:
Silvan Shalom
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Pol Pot will surrender, be captured or commit suicide.
Author:
Hun Sen
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Political courage is not political suicide.
Author:
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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I'm convinced that we can shape a different future for this country as it relates to mental health and as it relates to suicide.
Author:
David Satcher
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I lost two of the greatest men I've ever known to assassination - and a son to suicide.
Author:
Pierre Salinger
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I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.
Author:
Richard Russo
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Drunkenness is temporary suicide.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.
Author:
Eleanor Roosevelt
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On our watch, the conversation with a would-be suicide bomber will not begin with the words, 'You have the right to remain silent.'
Author:
Mitt Romney
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I think we are in the midst of this period where we are committing this suicide on the planet and everybody is just using up all of our natural resources like a bunch of insane people. That's what I worry about more than I worry about jazz.
Author:
Sonny Rollins
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A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.
Author:
Kid Rock
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I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying.
Author:
Robert Quine
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
Author:
Ezra Pound
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Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
Author:
Ezra Pound
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Should l go on playing bridge and dining, going in the same old monotonous circle? It's easy that way, but it's a sort of suicide, too.
Author:
Antoinette Perry
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No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.
Author:
Cesare Pavese
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The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.
Author:
Chuck Palahniuk
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My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
Author:
Camille Paglia
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
Author:
Jack Nicholson
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I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light and funny any more.
Author:
Judd Nelson
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A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!
Author:
Arthur Miller
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Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed to forestall the committing of murder? There is no doubt of it. Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.
Author:
Karl Menninger
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Whenever the people are for gay marriage or medical marijuana or assisted suicide, suddenly the "will of the people" goes out the window.
Author:
Bill Maher
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Suicide is man's way of telling God, "You can't fire me - I quit."
Author:
Bill Maher
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Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Suicide is a choice and I think if we work with that with kids, we'll get somewhere.
Author:
Peter Lynch
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My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on.
Author:
Lorna Luft
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It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
Author:
Clare Luce
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I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide.
Author:
Joshua Logan
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Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.
Author:
Friedrich List
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A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
Author:
Max Lerner
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If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.
Author:
Fran Lebowitz
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The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history.
Author:
Greg Knight
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You know when I really realized like "wow" what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a girl wrote me a letter and said the song that I sung kept her from committing suicide.
Author:
Charles King
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I don't persuade to suicide.
Author:
Jack Kevorkian
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It wasn't until '94 when I tried to commit suicide that I realized that it wasn't about the money.
Author:
Vanilla Ice
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Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Author:
Thomas Huxley
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Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates.
Author:
Saddam Hussein
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It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.
Author:
Charlie Hunnam
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
Author:
Laurence Housman
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I have a suicide impulse.
Author:
Hal Holbrook
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
Author:
Damien Hirst
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Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.
Author:
Keith Henson
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There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
Author:
Ernest Hemingway
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Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.
Author:
Martin Heidegger
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There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.
Author:
Lafcadio Hearn
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The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.
Author:
Marilyn Hacker
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As anyone who has been close to someone that has committed suicide knows, there is no other pain like that felt after the incident.
Author:
Peter Greene
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In fact, the Iraqi foreign minister admitted in March 2003 that Iraqi funds were sent to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who attacked and killed innocent Israeli citizens, and also 12 Americans in Israel in 2003.
Author:
Jim Gerlach
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Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?
Author:
Jean Genet
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Suicide is not a remedy.
Author:
James Garfield
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No law can give or take away the choice to commit suicide.
Author:
Maggie Gallagher
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Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.
Author:
Maggie Gallagher
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
Author:
Malcolm Fraser
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Depression is close to me, but suicide hasn't been.
Author:
Claire Forlani
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The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
Author:
Henry Ellis
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If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
Author:
Dwight Eisenhower
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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon.
Author:
Emile Durkheim
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I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.
Author:
Everett Dirksen
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The State of Israel has faced obstacles and challenges to its very survival, with conventional military attacks leading the way to suicide bombers who have killed innocent Israeli men, women, and children.
Author:
Jerry Costello
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One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide.
Author:
Charles Cooley
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I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.
Author:
Judy Collins
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For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down into society's method of handling suicide recovery. Now we have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.
Author:
Judy Collins
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I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.
Author:
Judy Collins
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Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression.
Author:
Judy Collins
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The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
Author:
Emile Cioran
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Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers.
Author:
Chris Chocola
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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
Author:
Lord Chesterfield
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In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
Author:
Gary Cherone
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I am so sick of reading about another car bomb, another suicide bomber, another 10, 20, 30, 70, 100 people dead in a day, both Americans and Iraqis.
Author:
Rosanne Cash
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The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.
Author:
George Carey
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
Author:
Albert Camus
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No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
Author:
Robert Byrne
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
Author:
Octavia Butler
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I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.
Author:
Eric Burdon
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Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
Author:
Julie Burchill
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One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.
Author:
F. Bradley
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There aren't many people who say that Europe is a territory, or Asia is a territory - it'd be suicide. And there are even more people in America than in Europe. I think it's strange, really. I basically see it as loads of different places.
Author:
Sean Booth
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Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
Author:
Erma Bombeck
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She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand.
Author:
Saul Bellow
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We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.
Author:
Rand Beers
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I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.
Author:
Travis Barker
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Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.
Author:
Henri Barbusse
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The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.
Author:
John Ashcroft
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Author:
Aristotle
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The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.
Author:
Theodor Adorno
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Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
Author:
John Adams
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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
Author:
John Adams
