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The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches.

Jesus

Matthew 13:31-32

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The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (Matthew 13:31-32).

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Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permits.

Montesquieu

The Spirit of the Laws

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Secondat, Charles Baron de Montesquieu [published anonymously]. L'Esprit de Lois [The Spirit of Laws]. Geneva: Barrillot & Fils, 1748, bk. 11, ch. 3.

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Secondat, Charles Baron de Montesquieu. The Spirit of Laws. Prometheus, 2002, bk. 11, ch. 3.

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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

Anatole France

The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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France, Anatole. Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard [The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1881, pt. 2, ch. 2.

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For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

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Matthew 24:7-12

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 24:7-12).

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Anyone's death always releases something like an aura of stupefaction, so difficult is it to grasp this irruption of nothingness and to believe that it has actually taken place.

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

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Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province [Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners]. Revue de Paris, 1 Oct. 1856 - 15 Dec. 1856. Serial.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2011, pt. 3, ch. 9.

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The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Arthur Schopenhauer

What a Man Is

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorismen zu Lebensweisheit: Bon Dem, was Einer ist [Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life: What a Man is]." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 1, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the wisdom of life." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Sabine Roehr and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

Arthur Schopenhauer

On Women

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Ueber die Weiber [On Women]." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 2, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "On Women." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Adrian Del Caro and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life.

Sonia Sotomayor

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Sotomayer, Sonia. Speech at the University of California, Berkeley. Annual Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Lecture. 26 Oct. 2001, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.

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Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud...Never, never, and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Nelson Mandela

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Mandela, Nelson. "Inaugural Address." 10 May 1994, Union Buildings, Pretoria, South Africa, Africa.

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Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. Remarks at the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference. National Defense Executive Reserve Conference. 14 Nov. 1957, Washington DC, USA.

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Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed, because they will be obeyed, because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a Divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindiction of the Rights of Woman

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Boston: Thomas and Andrews/London: J. Johnson, 1792, ch. 11.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. "A Vindication of the Rights of Women." A Vindication of the Rights of Women and A Vindication of the Rights of Men, edited by Janet Todd. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 11.

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Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

Proverbs 20:1

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

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I just wanna say one word to you...just one word...are you listening?... Plastics.

The Graduate

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The Graduate. Directed by Mike Nichols, Lawrence Truman Productions, 1967.

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Clinton damn near got impeached, for what? For what? Lied about a blowjob so his wife wouldn’t find out. ls that against the law? Do you need the Supreme Court for that one? You could have took that one to The People’s Court! Could have took that one to Judge Judy. She’d have knocked it out in a half hour, plus commercials.

Chris Rock

Bigger & Blacker

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Rock, Chris. Bigger & Blacker. HBO, 10 July 1999.

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Axiom: hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom.

Gustave Flaubert

Letters of Gustave Flaubert

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Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to George Sand. 17 May 1867.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence, translated by Francis Steegmuller. Knopf, 1993, no. 77.

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Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Job

Job 14:1-2 KJV

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 14:1-2).

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In my lifetime, all the problems have come mainland Europe, and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.

Margaret Thatcher

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Thatcher, Margaret. Speech to Scottish Tories. Conservative Party conference. 5 Oct. 1999, Blackpool, England, UK.

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Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied,
And vice sometime by action dignified.

William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 2, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

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