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“For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not”. –Learned Hand

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes”. –Marcel Duchamp

“I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization”. –J.G. Stedman

“My knowledge that I am masquerading as a normal person has even corroded whatever of normality I originally possessed, ending by making me tell myself over and over again that it too was nothing but a pretense of normality”. –Yukio Mishima

“As you know, I am not a writer but a Party functionary. But like every Communist, I consider myself to have been mobilized by Party propaganda and deem it my duty to actively participate in the work of our press”. –Leonid Brezhnev

“No doubt the Jews aren’t a lovable people; I don’t care about them myself; but that is not sufficient to explain the Pogrom”. –Neville Chamberlain

“Men may be divided into two types: men of words and men of action. The first speaks; the latter act. I am of the second type. I lack the means to express myself adequately”. –Antonio Gaudi

“I can’t bear to see myself, even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can’t stand the sight of myself”. –Nat King Cole