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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Edmund Burke

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Burke, Edmund. Letter to a Member of the National Assembly. London: J. Dodsley, 1791.

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Burke, Edmund. Letter to a Member of the National Assembly." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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See, Winter comes to rule the varied year,
Sullen and sad.

James Thomson

The Seasons: Winter

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Thomson, James. Winter. London: John Millan, 1726.

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Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient-dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short, Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.

Edward Said

Orientalism

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Said, Edward. Orientalism. Pantheon Books, 1978, introduction.

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

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Madison, James. "General Defense of the Constitution." Virginia Ratifying Convention. 5 June 1788, Richmond, VA, USA.

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Madison, James. "Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention in Defense of the Constitution, June 6, 1788." James Madison: Writings. Library of America, 1999.

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I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel;
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.

Alfred Tennyson

In Memoriam A.H.H.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. In Memoriam A.H.H. London: Edward Moxon, 1850, pt. 4, st. 5.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "In Memoriam A.H.H." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009 pt. 4, st. 5.

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I would earnestly ask my sisters to keep clear of both the jargons now current everywhere... Of the jargon, namely about the "rights" of women, which urges women to do all that men do... Merely because men do it, and without regard to whether this is the best that women can do; and of the jargon which urges women to do nothing that men do, merely because they are women... Woman should bring the best she has, whatever that is... Without attending to either of these cries.

Florence Nightingale

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Nightingale, Florence. Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not. London: Harrison and Sons, 1859.

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Nightingale, Florence. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not. Dover Publications, 1969.

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Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.

Tecumseh

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Tecumseh. 1799. Tribal councils with White Men. Urbana, Ohio, USA.

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Tecumseh. Quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, written by Dee Brown. Picador, 2007, ch. 1.

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I know it when I see it.

Potter Stewart

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Jacobellis v. Ohio

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On the nature of "obscenity".

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Stewart, Potter. United States, Supreme Court. Jacobellis v. Ohio. United States Reports, vol. 378, 22 June 1964, pp. 184-204. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/378/184/.

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There's something about this that's so black, it's like how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.

This is Spinal Tap

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This is Spinal Tap. Directed by Rob Reiner, Spinal Tap Prod., 1984.

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The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to slave and suffer in dumb anguish, to be stripped of spirit, and hope, and faith—only because they are of another race, another creed. If there is a god, he did not mean this to be so.

Moses

The Ten Commandments

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The Ten Commandments. Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Cecil B. DeMille Productions, 1956.

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Children's Happiness." A Treatise on Parents and Children. Binker North, 1910.

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Who knows when some slight shock, disturbing the delicate balance between social order and thirsty aspiration, shall send the skyscrapers in our cities toppling?

Richard Wright

Native Son

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Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940, bk. 3.

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Though it be a thrilling and marvelous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so, doubly dynamic-to be young, gifted and black.

Lorraine Hansberry

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Hansberry, Lorraine. "The Nation Needs Your Gifts." Reader's Digest/United Negro College Fund creative writing contest winners meeting. 1 May 1964, New York City, NY, USA.

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The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

Sir Thomas Browne

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk." Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk Together with the Garden of Cyrus. London: Henry Brome, 1658, ch. 5.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Hydriotaphia or Urne Buriall (1658)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, ch. 5.

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