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A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we came, into nowhere we go. What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot

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Crowfoot. Farewell to his people. 25 Apr. 1890, Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park, Alberta, Canada.

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Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

Sir Thomas Browne

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "On Dreams." The Collected Works of Sir Thomas Browne. Norwich: Fletcher and Son, c. 1835.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "On Dreams." Sir Thomas Browne: The Major Works, edited by C. A. Patrides. Penguin Classics, 1977.

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There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.

Ray Bradbury

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Bradbury, Ray. "Usher II." The Martian Chronicles. Doubleday, 1950.

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Expenditure rises to meet income.

C. Northcote Parkinson

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Parkinson, C. Northcote. The Law and the Profits. Houghton Mifflin, 1960, ch. 1.

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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

Naomi Klein

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Klein, Naomi. "From Pots to Politics." The Guardian, 11 May 2003, www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/12/argentina.comment

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That action is best, which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.

Francis Hutcheson

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An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

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Hutcheson, Francis. An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue. London: J. Darby, 1726, treatise 2, sect. 3, subsect. 8.

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Hutcheson, Francis. An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, edited by Wolfgang Leidhold. Liberty Fund, 2008.

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Art is not a thing-it is a way.

Elbert Hubbard

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Hubbard, Elbert. "Thomas Arnold." Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers. The Roycrofters, 1908.

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Wit is the only wall
Between us and the dark.

Mark Van Doren

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Doren, Mark Van. "Wit." Collected Poems 1922–1938. Henry Holt & Company, 1939, st. 1.

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Art is born of humiliation.

W.H. Auden

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Auden, W. H. Quoted in World Within World, by Stephen Spender. Hamish Hamilton/Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1951.

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We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth-1 for every 500 Americans, three times as many as are in England, four times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as are in West Germany, twenty-one times as many as there are in Japan. We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyer serves 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented.

Jimmy Carter

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Carter, Jimmy. Remarks at the 100th Anniversary Luncheon of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. 100th Anniversary Luncheon of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. 4 May 1978, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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O! many a shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant!
And many a word, at random spoken,
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Sir Walter Scott

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Scott, Walter, Sir. The Lord of the Isles. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1815, canto 5, st. 18.

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We hold that obscenity is not within the area of constitutionally protected speech or press.

William J. Brennan, Jr

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Brennan, William J., Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Roth v. United States. United States Reports, vol. 354, 24 June 1957, pp. 476-514. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/354/476/.

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By the time you say you're his,
Shivering and sighing
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying-
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.

Dorothy Parker

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Parker, Dorothy. "Unfortunate Coincidence." Enough Rope. Boni & Liveright, 1926.

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Our gadget-filled paradise suspended in a hell of international insecurity.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Niebuhr, Reinhold. Pious and Secular America. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958.

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Here to-day, up and off to somewhere else to-morrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 2.

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 2.

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Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.

Alfred Tennyson

The Princess

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Tennyson, Alfred. The Princess. London: Edward Moxon, 1847, pt. 4.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "The Princess." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 4.

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Son, in 35 years of religious studies, I’ve come up with only two hard, incontrovertible facts: There is a God, and I’m not him.

Rudy

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Rudy. Directed by David Anspaugh, TriStar Pictures, 1993.

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Love is a thing.
It is a prick, it is a sting,
It is a pretty, pretty thing;
It is a fire, it is a coal
Whose flame creeps in at every hole.

George Peele

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Peele, George. The Hunting of Cupid. c. 1591.

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Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.

Learned Hand

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Hand, Learned. "The Spirit of Liberty." I Am An American Day. 21 May 1944, Central Park, New York City, NY, USA.

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They that deny a God destroy a man's nobility, for certainly man is of a kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.

Francis Bacon

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Bacon, Francis. "Of Atheism." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Atheism." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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