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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Declaration of Independence

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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1

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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream

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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations

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For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Jesus

John 3:16

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There is grandeur in this view of life...whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.

Charles Darwin

On the Origin of Species

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Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you.

Jesus

Luke 6:27

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God is dead: but as the human race is constituted, there will perhaps be caves for millenniums yet, in which people will show his shadow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Gay Science

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BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.

Jesus

John 8:7

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The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto

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Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.

Socrates

Quoted in Theaetetus, by Plato

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Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky.

John Lennon

Imagine

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Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

Jesus

John 8:32

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The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

Quoted in Apology, by Plato

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God is love.

1st John 4:8

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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt

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For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.

Luke 15:24

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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto

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In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain... And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.