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There is no one who returns from beyond
that he may tell of their state
that he may tell of their lot
that he may set our hearts at ease
until we make our journey
to the place where they have gone.

Harper's Songs

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"Lay of the Harper" Tomb of King Intef. El-Tarif, Luxor, Egypt. c. 2613.

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A minimal state, limited to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on, is justified; that any more extensive state will violate persons' rights not to be forced to do certain things, and is unjustified; and that the minimal state is inspiring as well as right.

Robert Nozick

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Anarchy, State, and Utopia

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Nozick, Robert. Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Basic Books, 1974, preface.

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Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.

Joseph Alsop

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Alsop, Joseph. Quoted in The Observer. 30 Nov. 1952.

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Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

John Ruskin

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Ruskin, John. "Of Kings' Treasuries." Dec. 1864, Rusholme, Manchester, England, UK. Lecture.

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There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Appareled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore-
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

William Wordsworth

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollection of Early Childhood

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Wordsworth, William. "Ode." Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807. st. 1.

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Wordsworth, William. "Ode ('There was a time')." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008, st. 1.

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The seaweed is always greener
In somebody else's lake
You dream about going up there
But that is a big mistake
Just look at the world around you
Right here on the ocean floor
Such wonderful things around you
What more is you lookin' for?
Under the sea
Under the sea
Darlin', it's better
Down where it's wetter
Take it from me
Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we devotin'
Full time to floatin'
Under the sea!

The Little Mermaid

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"Under the Sea." The Little Mermaid. Directed by Rob Clements and John Musker, performed by Samuel E. Wright, Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Feature Animation/Silver Scrreen Partners IV, 1989.

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I think it was a generous thought, and one that flowed from an exalted mind, that it was not improbable but God might be delighted with the various methods of worshipping him, which divided the whole world.

Alexander Pope

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Pope, Alexander. Letter to Edward Blount. 10 Feb. 1715-1716.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Epistle to Allen Lord Bathurst." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 153-154.

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Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

John Quincy Adams

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Adams, John Quincy. Speech to the US House of Representatives on Foreign Policy. 4 July 1821, US Capitol Building, Washington DC, USA.

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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

G.K. Chesterton

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Chesterton, G.K. "On Running After One's Hat." In Defense of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton. Ignatius Press, 2011. Originally published by Methuen & Company, 1908.

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I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. Why, if that happened, we wouldn’t have a chance!

The Birds

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The Birds. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, 1963.

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There is love, of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Jean Anouilh

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Anouilh, Jean. Ardèle ou la Marguerite. Directed by Roland Piétri. 1948, Comédie des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France.

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Anouilh, Jean. "Ardele." Jean Anouilh: Five Plays. Vol. 2, Hill & Wang, 1966.

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Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,
The proper study of mankind is man.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
A being darkly wise, and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the skeptic side,
With too much weakness for the stoic's pride,
He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest;
In doubt to deem himself a god or beast;
In doubt his mind or body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err;
Alike in ignorance, his reason such,
Whether he thinks too little or too much;
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;
Still by himself abused, or disabused;
Created half to rise, and half to fall;
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled;
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." London: J. Wilford, 1733, ep. 2, l. 1-18.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, ep. 2, l. 1-18.

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Most people are on the world, not in it—have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them—undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

John Muir

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Muir, John. Journal entry. July 1890.

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The labour of women in the house, certainly enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1898, ch. 1.

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