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Resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

Jesus

Matthew 5:39

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 5:39).

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I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.

René Descartes

Meditations on First Philosophy

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Descartes, René. Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in qua Dei existentia et animæ immortalitas demonstratur [Meditations on First Philosophy, in which the existence of God and the immortality of the soul are demonstrated]. Paris, 1641, first meditation.

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Descarte, René. "Meditations on First Philosophy." Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, translated by Donald A. Cress. Hackett Publishing, 1999, first meditation.

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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Iphigenia in Tauris

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Iphigenie auf Tauris [Iphigenia in Taurus]. 1779, Ducal private theater, Weimar, Germany, act 4, sc. 4.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Iphigenia in Tauris." Goethe: The Collected Works: Verse Plays and Epic, edited by Cyrus Hamlin and Frank Ryder. Vol. 8, Princeton University Press, 1995, act 4, sc. 4.

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The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.

Isaiah 40:8

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The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (Isaiah 40:8).

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By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 132.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 132.

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You can't understand it. You would have to be born there.

William Faulkner

Absalom, Absalom!

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On the South.

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Faulkner, William. Absalom, Absalom! Chelsea House Publishers, 1987, p. 85.

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We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

Charles Darwin

The Descent of Man

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Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray, 1871, pt. 3, ch. 21.

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Darwin, Charles. The Descent of Man. Penguin Classics, 2004, pt. 3, ch. 21.

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If the Persians hide the sun, the battle will be in shade rather than sunlight.

Herodotus

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Herodotus. Ἱστορίαι [Histories]. c. 430 BC, bk. 7, sect. 226.

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Herodotus. The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 7, sect. 226.

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When hearts are high the time will fly, so whistle while you work.

Snow White

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Directed by David Hand, Walt Disney Productions, 1937.

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We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

Uncle Vanya

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Chekhov, Anton. Dyadya Vanya. 1897, act 4.

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Chekhov, Anton. "Uncle Vanya." Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull' Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard, translated by Peter Carson. Penguin Classics, 2002, act 4.

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Life does not consist mainly—or even largely—of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain's Autobiography

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Autobiography. Vol. 1, Harper & Brothers, 1924.

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Twain, Mark. "New York, January 10, 1906." Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael Barry Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Diane Myrick, and Robert Hirst. Vol. 1, University of California Press, 2010.

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But perhaps the universe is suspended on the tooth of some monster.

Anton Chekhov

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Chekhov, Anton. Personal notebook entry. c. 1904.

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No human creature can give orders to love.

George Sand

Jacques

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Sand, George. Jacques. 1833, ch. 81.

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Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 2, London: Saunders and Otley, 1840, sect. 2, ch. 2.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 2, sect. 2, ch. 2.

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For I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.

Jesus

Matthew 25:35-36

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The Holy Bible, New King James Version. Thomas Nelson, 1982. (Matthew 25:35-36).

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I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters.

Donald Trump

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Trump, Donald. Speech at campaign rally. 23 Jan. 2016, Dordt University, Sioux Center, IA, USA.

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I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.

Langston Hughes

The Black Man Speaks

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Hughes, Langston. "The Black Man Speaks." Jim Crow’s Last Stand. Negro Publications Society of America, 1943, I. 1.

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It is both historically and biologically true that there can be no birth and growth without birth and growing pains. Whenever there is the emergence of the new we confront the recalcitrance of the old. So the tensions which we witness in the world today are indicative of the fact that a new world order is being born and an old order is passing away.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Facing the Challenge of a New Age." First Annual Institute on Nonviolence and Social Change meeting. 3 Dec. 1956, Montgomery, AL, USA.

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The ego's relation to the id might be compared with that of a rider to his horse. The horse supplies the locomotive energy, while the rider has the privilege of deciding on the goal and of guiding and powerful animal's movement. But only too often there arises between the ego and the id the not precisely ideal situation of the rider being obliged to guide the horse along the path by which it itself wants to go.

Sigmund Freud

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

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Freud, Sigmund. New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, translated by James Strachey. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990, lecture 31. Originally published as Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in die Psychoanalyse [New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis]. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1933, lecture 31.