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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Salman Rushdie

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Rushdie, Salman."In Good Faith." The Guardian, 10 Feb. 1990.

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Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Please open his mouth. Now, mostly dead is slightly alive.

The Princess Bride

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The Princess Bride. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Communications/Buttercup Films/The Princess Bride Ltd., 1987.

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Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Winston Churchill

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Churchill, Winston. "Unlucky Alfonso." Collier’s, 27 June 1931.

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Lazarus, come forth.

Jesus

John 11:43

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (John 11:43).

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The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty and puts on the bonds of civil society is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community.

John Locke

Two Treatises of Government

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Locke, John. "Second Treatise of Civil Government." Two Treatises of Government. London: Awnsham Churchill, 1690, ch. 8, sect. 95.

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Locke, John. Second Treatise of Civil Government, edited by C. B. Macpherson. Hackett Publishing Company, 1980, ch. 8, sect. 95.

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Example is always more efficacious than precept.

Samuel Johnson

The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

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Johnson, Samuel. The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale. London: R. and J. Dodsley/W. Johnston, 1759, ch. 30.

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Johnson, Samuel. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. Penguin Classics, 2007, ch. 30.

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When I buy a new book, I read the last page first. That way, in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

When Harry Met Sally…

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When Harry Met Sally... Directed by Rob Reiner, Nelson Entertainment/Castle Rock Entertainment, 1989.

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At the still point, there the dance is.

T.S. Eliot

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Eliot, T. S. “Burnt Norton.” Collected Poems 1909–1935. Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1936, pt. 2.

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It don't take much strength to pull a trigger, but try getting up every morning day after day and work for a living, let's see him try that, then we'll see who's the real tough guy, the working man is the tough guy.

A Bronx Tale

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A Bronx Tale. Directed by Robert De Niro, Price Entertainment/TriBeCa Productions, 1993.

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Oh, now you’re saying that I’m redundant, that I repeat myself, that I say things over and over!

Frasier Crane

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Cheers

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"Behind Every Great Man." Cheers, written by Glen Charles and Les Charles and James Burrows, directed by James Burrows, season 3, episode 19, Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions and Paramount Television, 1985.

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All men whilst they are awake are in one common world; but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own.

Heraclitus

Quoted in Moralia, by Plutarch

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Plutarch. "Περὶ δεισιδαιμονίας [On Superstition]." Moralia [Ἠθικά]. c. 100 AD.

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The world has always laughed at its own tragedies, that being the only way in which it has been able to bear them.

Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance

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Wilde, Oscar. A Woman of No Importance. 1893, Haymarket Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

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Wilde, Oscar. "A Woman of No Importance." The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 3.

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Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia and Africa have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

Thomas Paine

Common Sense

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Paine, Thomas [published anonymously]. Common Sense. Philadelphia: R. Bell, sect. 3.

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Paine, Thomas. "Common Sense." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009, sect. 3.

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I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly

Joni Mitchell

River

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Mitchell, Joni. "River." Blue. Reprise Records, 1971.

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We, upon many occasions, see wise and good men on the wrong as well as on the right side of questions of the first magnitude to society. This circumstance, if duly attended to, would furnish a lesson of moderation to those who are ever so much persuaded of their being in the right in any controversy.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 1

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Hamilton, Alexander [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 1: General Introduction." Independent Journal, 27 Oct. 1787.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "No. I: Deliberation on a new constitution--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends.

The Beatles

With a Little Help From My Friends

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Lennon, John and Paul McCartney. "With a Little Help From My Friends." Performed by The Beatles. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Parlophone Records/Capitol Records, 1967.

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State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

Thomas Jefferson

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Peter Carr. 10 Aug. 1787.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "Peter Carr, Aug. 10, 1787." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence & His Public and Private Letters, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

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Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

Shirley Chisholm

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Chisholm, Shirley. Spoken in the House of Representatives. House of Representatives meeting. 1970, US House of Representatives, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

Joseph Schumpeter

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

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Schumpeter, Joseph Alois. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. Harper & Brothers, 1942, pt. 1, ch. 3.

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Avarice, the spur of industry, is so obstinate a passion, and works its way through so many real dangers and difficulties, that it is not likely to be scared by an imaginary danger, which is so small, that it scarcely admits of calculation.

David Hume

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Hume, David. "Of Liberty and Despotism." Essays, Moral and Political. Edinburgh: A. Kincaid, 1741, no. 15.

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Hume, David. "Of Civil Liberty." Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary: Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp and Mark A Box. Oxford University Press, 2022, pt. 1, no. 12.

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