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We have before us the opportunity to forge for ourselves and for future generations a new world order-a world where the rule of law, not the law of the jungle, governs the conduct of nations.

George H.W. Bush

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Bush, George H. W. Address to the nation on the invasion of Iraq. 16 Jan. 1991, Washington, DC, USA.

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Sin is a queer thing. It isn't the breaking of divine commandments. It is the breaking of one's own integrity.

D.H. Lawrence

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Lawrence, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature. Thomas Seltzer, 1923, ch. 8.

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A man may be in as just possession of Truth as of a City, and yet bee forced to surrender.

Sir Thomas Browne

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. Religio Medici. London, 1643, pt. 1, sect. 6.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Religio Medici (1643)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 1, sect. 6.

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Where Slavery is, there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is, there Slavery cannot be.

Charles Sumner

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Sumner, Charles. "Slavery and the Rebellion." 5 Nov. 1864, Cooper Institute, New York City, NY, USA.

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I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes... I do not weep at the world-I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zora Neale Hurston

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Hurston, Zora Neale. "How It Feels to Be Colored Me." World Tomorrow, May 1928.

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Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

Michael Torke

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Torke, Michael. "Sayings of the Week." Observer, 23 Sept. 1990.

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What's not destroyed by Time's devouring hand?
Where's Troy, and where's the May-pole in the Strand?

James Bramston

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Bramston, James. The Art of Politics. London: Lawton Gilliver, 1729.

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Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge on San Luis Rey

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Vintage, 2023.

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The feelings on which people act are often superior to the arguments they employ.

James Q. Wilson

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Wilson, James Q. The Moral Sense. Simon & Schuster, 1993.

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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Maugham, William Somerset. The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts. 3 Mar. 1921, Haymarket Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

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Maugham, William Somerset. The Circle: A Comedy in Three Acts. Cornell University Library, 2009, act 3.

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America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.

Warren G. Harding

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Harding, Warren G. "Readjustment." Home Market Club meeting. 14 May 1920, Boston, MA, USA.

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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Calvin Coolidge

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Coolidge, Calvin. In conversation with Herbert Hoover. c. 1930.

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Coolidge, Calvin. Quoted in Coolidge: An American Enigma, written by Robert Sobel. Regnery History, 2000.

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When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the "big canoe" of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the viper whose sting is destined to poison all their joys.

Herman Melville

Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life

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Melville, Herman. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. New York: Wiley and Putnam/London: John Murray, 1846, ch. 4.

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Melville, Herman. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. Dover Publications, 2019, ch. 4.

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The future belongs to crowds.

Don DeLillo

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DeLillo, Don. Mao II. Scribner, 1991.

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Music alone with sudden charms can bind
The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.

William Congreve

Hymn to Harmony

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Congreve, William. A Hymn to Harmony: Written in Honour of St. Cecilia's day, M DCC I. London: Jacob Tonson, 1703.

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Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

George Santayana

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Santayana, George. Dialogues in Limbo. Constable and Co. Ltd., 1925, ch. 5.

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Deep within us—no matter who we are—there lives a feeling of wanting to be lovable, of wanting to be the kind of person that others like to be with. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 52.

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So the industrious bees do hourly strive
To bring their loads of honey to the hive;
Their sordid owners always reap the gains,
And poorly recompense their toils and pains.

Mary Collier

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Collier, Mary. "The Woman's Labour: an Epistle to Mr Stephen Duck." The Woman's Labour: an Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck: in Answer to His Late Poem, Called The Thresher's Labour. To which are Added, The Three Wise Sentences, Taken from the First Book of Esdras, Ch. III. and IV. London, 1739.

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Collier, Mary. "The Woman's Labour." The Woman's Labour and Other Poems. Renard Press, 2021.

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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

H.L. Mencken

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Mencken, Henry Louis. A Mencken Chrestomathy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1949, ch. 30. Originally published in A Little Book in C Major, published by John Lane Co., 1916, ch. 2.

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Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

George Santayana

The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress

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Santayana, George. The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, edited by Marianne S. Wokeck and Martin A. Coleman. Vol. 7, The MIT Press, 2011, bk. 1, introduction. Originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905.

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