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Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

~Bertrand Russell

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Being a fan of authentic Dada, I find today's art - what I call 'Bankers' Dada' - mind-numbingly dull. The most challenging work I've seen of late is by The British Art Resistance. Their document, 'A Call for Heroes in an Age of Cowards', is apt in these days of witless chancers.

~Billy Childish

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As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

~Buffalo Bill

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Whenever I write, I write what I find to be the way people are. I never use any symbolism at all, but if you write as true to life as you possibly can, people will see symbolism. They'll all see different symbolism, but they're apt to because you can see it in life.

~Carolyn Chute

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No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

~Charles Caleb Colton

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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

~Charles De Secondat

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A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness.

~Charles Spurgeon

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Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

~Charles Williams

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I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it's something fantastic. They're willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy.

~Cindy Sherman

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I think that at one moment you're apt for one thing, and at the next moment you're apt for something else.

~Concha Buika

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