Famous quotes containing the words earth, defense and/or class:
“Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“The cliché organizes life; it expropriates peoples identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats; I prefer the driest bread of common life.”
—Sydney Smith (17711845)
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