“If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Introduction to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right (1844).
“We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.”
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Tulsi Gabbard (1981) U.S. Representative from Hawaii's 2nd congressional district
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Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Ce besoin de l’immatériel est le plus vivace de tous. Il faut du pain; mais avant le pain, il faut l’idéal. <br class="br">" Les fleurs http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Proses_philosophiques_-_Les_Fleurs#IV," (ca. 1860 - 1865), from Oeuvres complètes (1909); published in English as The Memoirs of Victor Hugo, trans. John W. Harding (1899), Chapter VI: Love in Prison, part II