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Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Apostle Paul

1st Corinthians 1:20

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st Corinthians 1:20).

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But sport doesn’t build character....sports reveals character.

Heywood Hale Broun

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Broun, Heywood. Spoken during a speech in Ames, Iowa. Jan. 1974, Ames, IA, USA.

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The Great Society created by steam and electricity may be a society, but it is no community.

John Dewey

The Public and its Problems

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Dewey, John. The Public and Its Problems. H. Holt and Company, 1927, ch. 3.

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A whole new world
With new horizons to pursue
I'll chase them anywhere, there's time to spare
Let me share this whole new world with you
A whole new world
A whole new world
That's where we'll be
That's where we'll be
A thrilling chase, a wondrous place
For you and me.

Aladdin

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Aladdin. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Feature Animation, 1992.

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The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Law and the Court." Dinner of the Harvard Law Association of New York. 15 Feb. 1913, New York, NY, USA.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Law and the Court." The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, edited by Richard A. Posner. University of Chicago Press, 1997.

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Well since my baby left me
Well I found a new place to dwell
Well it's down at the end of lonely street
At Heartbreak Hotel.

Elvis Presley

Heartbreak Hotel

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Presley, Elvis. Heartbreak Hotel. Written with Tommy Durden and Elvis Presley. RCA Records, 1956.

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Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but there may never be two that love one another equally well.

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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There exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single, central vision, one system more or less coherent or articulate, in terms of which they understand, think and feel... And on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory... The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes... Dante belongs to the first category, Shakespeare to the second.

Isaiah Berlin

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Berlin, Isaiah. The Hedgehog and the Fox. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1953, ch. 1.

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A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Spiro Agnew

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Agnew, Spiro. Speech in New Orleans. Citizen's Testimonial Dinner. 19 Oct. 1969, New Orleans, LA, USA.

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Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.

John Quincy Adams

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Adams, John Quincy. Letter to James Lloyd. 1 Oct. 1822.

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In nature there are few sharp lines.

A.R. Ammons

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Ammons, Archie Randolph. "Corsons Inlet." Corsons Inlet: A Book of Poems. W. W. Norton & Company, 1975. Originally published as "A Nature Walk." The Hudson Review, June 1963.

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Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before.

Thomas Campbell

Lochiels's Warning

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Campbell, Thomas. Lochiel's Warning. c. 1802.

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The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

William Wordsworth

The World Is Too Much with Us

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Wordsworth, William. Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807, pt. 1, no. 18, I. 1.

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Wordsworth, William. "The world is too much with us." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Ladies, you have to be strong and independent, and remember, don't get mad, get everything.

The First Wives Club

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The First Wives Club. Directed by Hugh Wilson, Paramount Pictures, 1996.

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A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

Stephen Jay Gould

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Gould, Stephen Jay. "Velikovsky In Collision." Natural History, Mar. 1975.

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We cross our bridges as we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and the presumption that once our eyes watered.

Tom Stoppard

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Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. 24 Aug. 1966, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 2.

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Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Grove Press, 2017, act 2.

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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

Edmund Burke

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Burke, Edmund. Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. London: J. Dodsley, 1770.

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Burke, Edmund. "Thoughts on the Present Discontents." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Michael J. Fox

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Fox, Michael J. Quoted in The Most Important Thing I Know. Compiled by Lorne A. Adrain. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1997.

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Let us have done with British-Americans and Irish-Americans and German-Americans, and so on, and all be Americans... If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

Henry Cabot Lodge

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Lodge, Henry Cabot. "The Day We Celebrate." New England Society of Brooklyn meeting. 21 Dec. 1888, Brooklyn, New York City, NY, USA.

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Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

John Dickinson

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The Liberty Song

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Dickinson, John. "The Liberty Song." Pennsylvania Journal/Pennsylvania Gazette, 7 July 1768.

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