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an optimist is a guy
that has never had
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Don Marquis

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Marquis, Donald. "Certain Maxims of Archy." Archy and Mehitabel. The Evening Sun, c. 1927.

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Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection unto eternal life.

The Book of Common Prayer

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The Book of Common Prayer (American). Episcopal Church, 1928.

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What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.

Muriel Rukeyser

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Rukeyser, Muriel. "Kathe Kollwitz." The Speed of Darkness: Poems. Random House, 1968, sec. 3.

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It makes no difference who you are, no matter how much training you got and the tougher guy you might be. When you're at the wrong spot at the wrong time, you gonna get it.

The Thin Red Line

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The Thin Red Line. Directed by Terrence Malick, Fox 2000 Pictures/Phoenix Pictures/Geisler-Roberdeau, 1998.

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I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility, and murder.

Grizzly Man

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Grizzly Man. Directed by Werner Herzog, Discovery Docs/Real Big Production, 2005.

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The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

Ludwig von Mises

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Von Mises, Ludwig. Human Action: A Treatise on Economics. Yale University Press, 1949, ch. 15.

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History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Enoch Powell

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Powell, Enoch. Speech at the Conservative Party Conference. 19 Oct. 1967, UK.

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The most extreme agony is to feel that one has been utterly forsaken.

Bruno Bettelheim

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Bettelheim, Bruno. "The Holocaust - One Generation Later." Surviving and Other Essays. Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.

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The constitutional guarantees require, we think, a federal rule that prohibits a public official from recovering damages for a defamatory falsehood relating to his official conduct unless he proves that the statement was made with "actual malice"—that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan

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Brennan, William J, Jr. United States, Supreme Court. New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. United States Reports, vol. 376, 9 Mar. 1964, pp. 254-305. supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/376/254/.

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There are two sorts of laws, those of absolute equity and universality, and the bizarre ones which owe their autonomy only to blindness or to the force of circumstance. The latter merely cover the man who is breaking them with a passing disgrace, which time then transfers to the judges and the nations, on whom it remains forever.

Denis Diderot

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Diderot, Denis. Le Neveu de Rameau, ou La Satire seconde [The Nephew of Rameau, or the Second Satire]. 1805 (German); 1891 (original French manuscript).

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Diderot, Denis. "Rameau's Nephew." Rameau's Nephew and Other Works, translated by Jacques Barzun and Ralph H. Bowen. Hackett Publishing Company, 2001.

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He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.

Jack London

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London, Jack. "The Call of the Wild." The Saturday Evening Post, 1903.

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London, Jack. "The Call of the Wild." The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories. Signet, 2009, ch. 3.

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And I love you. Because I've learned that Platonic love can exist between two grown men.

Wayne's World

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Wayne's World. Directed by Penelope Spheeris, Paramount Pictures, 1992.

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What are days for?
Days are where we live.

Philip Larkin

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Larkin, Philip. "Days." The Whitsun Weddings. Faber and Faber, 1964, I. 1.

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I have often thought that the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it came upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice inside which speaks and says: "This is the real me!"

William James

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James, William. Letter to Alice Gibbons James. 1878.

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I don't consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin.

Leonard Cohen

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Cohen, Leonard. Quoted in "The Joking Troubadour of Gloom." The Daily Telegraph, 26 Apr. 1993.

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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

Cyril Connolly

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Connolly, Cyril. Enemies of Promise. George Routledge & Sons, 1938, ch. 14.

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Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement.

Leon Trotsky

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Trotsky, Leon. What Next? Vital Questions for the German Proletariat. Pioneer Publishers, 1932, ch. 14.

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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Man and Superman." Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, act 1. Originally published by Archibald and Constable Co., Ltd., 1903.

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The law touches us but here and there, and now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.

Edmund Burke

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Burke, Edmund. Two Letters to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France. London: F. and C. Rivington, 1796, letter 1.

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Burke, Edmund. Letters on a Regicide Peace." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, letter 1.

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Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms, and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements!