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ill-gotten fortunes, amassed during one of the wildest crime sprees in British history.
I find this statement laughably ironic. The prince of the most imperial, colonialist empires the world has ever seen that amassed its wealth from the sacking and theft of the nations and people it colonized talking about the "ill-gotten fortunes" amassed by others.
“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”
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“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?”
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
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“Truth is on the side of the oppressed.”
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