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I am in earnest-I will not equivocate-I will not excuse-I will not retreat a single inch-and I will be heard!

William Lloyd Garrison

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Garrison, William Lloyd. "To the Public." The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831.

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The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

William Shakespeare

All’s Well that Ends Well

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Shakespeare, William. "All's Well that Ends Well." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 4, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "All's Well That Ends Well." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 3.

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Love's a disease. But curable.

Rose Macaulay

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Macaulay, Rose. Crewe Train. W. Collins Sons & Co./Boni and Liveright, 1926, ch. 13.

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Macaulay, Rose. Crewe Train. Virago, 2018, ch. 13.

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The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Joseph Schumpeter

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Schumpeter, Joseph Alois. History of Economic Analysis. Oxford University Press, 1954, pt. 1, ch. 4, note 10.

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She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.

Beauty and the Beast

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Beauty and the Beast. Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Feature Animation/Silver Screen Partners, 1991.

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Communism subjects the individual to arrest without lawful cause, punishment without trial, and forced labor as the chattel of the state. It decrees what information he shall receive, what art he shall produce, what leaders he shall follow, and what thoughts he shall think.

Harry Truman

Second Inaugural Address of Harry Truman

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Truman, Harry S. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1949, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Storm-clouds whirl and storm-clouds scurry;
From behind them pale moonlight
Flickers where the snowflakes hurry.
Dark the sky and dark the night.

Alexander Pushkin

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Pushkin, Alexander. Devils. c. 1830.

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Pushkin, Alexander. "Demons (1830)." Alexander Pushkin: Selected Poetry, translated by Antony Wood. Penguin Classics, 2020.

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The dog... Commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery, and as he is also an item of expense, and commonly serves no industrial purpose, he holds a well-assured place in men's regard as a thing of good repute.

Thorstein Veblen

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Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions. Macmillan, 1899, ch. 6.

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Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class, edited by Martha Banta. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 6.

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I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

Mitch Hedberg

Strategic Grill Locations

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Hedberg, Mitch. Strategic Grill Locations. 7 Sept. 1999, The Laff Stop Comedy Club, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events; just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "9 May 1830." Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. London: John Murray, 1835.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge (2nd ed 1836)." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 14: Table Talk, edited by Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer. Princeton University Press, 2019.

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Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

James 4:10

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (James 4:10).

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So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

Susan Sontag

On Photography

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Sontag, Susan. "The Heroism of Vision." On Photography. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.

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You can't kill the boogeyman!

Halloween

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Halloween. Directed by John Carpenter, Compass International Pictures/Falcon International Productions, 1978.

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A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn. For in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like the leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

George H.W. Bush

Inaugural Address of George H.W. Bush

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Bush, George H. W. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1989, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The French Revolution operated in reference to this world in exactly the same manner as religious revolutions acted in view of the other world. It considered the citizen as an abstract proposition apart from any particular society, in the same way as religions considered man as man, independent of country and time.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The Ancien Regime and the Revolution

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution [The Ancien Régime and the Revolution]. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856, pt. 1, ch. 3.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. The Ancien Regime and the Revolution, translated by Gerald Bevan. Penguin Classics, 2008, pt. 1, ch. 3.

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If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Rumsfeld, Donald. Quoted in The New York Times. 8 Jan. 2001.

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Do not overlook the little joys!

Hermann Hesse

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Hesse, Hermann. "On Little Joys." My Belief: Essays on Life and Art, edited by Theodore Ziolkowski, translated by Denver Lindley. Farrar, Straus and Gioux, 1974. Originally published as "Virtuosen-Konzert." Neue Zürcher Zeitung, c. 1929.

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