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Only the brave know how to forgive... A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Laurence Sterne

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Sterne, Laurence. The Sermons of Mr. Yorick. Vol. 1, London: R. & J. Dodsley, 1760, no. 12.

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But there was one other thing that the grownups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there. The chance had to be there.

Roald Dahl

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.

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Is not this simplier? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.

The Avengers

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The Avengers. Directed by Joss Whedon, Marvel Studios, 2012.

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We know the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm?

John Page

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Page, John. Letter to Thomas Jefferson. 20 July 1776.

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Page, John. Quoted in Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War, written by Michael Kranish. Oxford University Press, 2010.

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To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler

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Butler, Samuel. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones. A. C. Fifield, 1912, ch. 14.

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So this was GM chairman Roger Smith. And he appeared to have a brilliant plan: First, close 11 factories in the U. S., then open 11 in Mexico where you pay the workers 70 cents an hour. Then, use the money you've saved by building cars in Mexico to take over other companies, preferably high-tech firms and weapons manufacturers. Next, tell the union you're broke and they happily agree to give back a couple billion dollars in wage cuts. You then take that money from the workers, and eliminate their jobs by building more foreign factories. Roger Smith was a true genius.

Roger and Me

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Roger and Me. Directed by Michael Moore, Dog Eat Dog Films, 1989.

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Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

Iris Murdoch

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Murdoch, Iris. "The Sublime and the Good." Chicago Review, vol. 13, no. 3, autumn 1959.

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It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

William Whewell

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The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences

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Whewell, William. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History. Vol. 1, London: John W. Parker, 1840.

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Whewell, William. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Art allows you to imbue the truth with a sort of magic, so it can infiltrate the psyches of more people, including those who don't believe the same things as you.

Wangechi Mutu

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Mutu, Wangechi. Quoted in 33 Artists in 3 Acts, written by Sarah Thornton. W. W. Norton & Company, 2014, p. 59. Originally an interview with Sarah Thornton, c. 2013.

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Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Tennyson

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. In Memoriam A.H.H. London: Edward Moxon, 1850, pt. 106, st. 1.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "In Memoriam A.H.H." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009 pt. 106, st. 1.

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A great nose indicates a great man-
Genial, courteous, intellectual,
Virile, courageous.

Edmond Rostand

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Rostand, Edmond. Cyrano de Bergerac. 27 Dec. 1897, Theatre de la Porte Saint-Martin, Paris, France, act 1, sc. 4.

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Rostand, Edmond. Cyrano de Bergerac, translated by Lowell Bair. Signet, 2012, act 1, sc. 4.

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It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another.

Gordon Gekko

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Wall Street. Directed by Oliver Stone, American Entertainment Partners/American Films, 1987.

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Every man hath a good and bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.

Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1621, pt. 1.

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by Holbrook Jackson. New York Review Books, 2001, pt. 1.

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Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Kingston, Maxine Hong. "No Name Woman." The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.

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Mathematics takes us still further from what is human, into the region of absolute necessity, to which only the actual world, but every possible world, must conform.

Bertrand Russell

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Russell, Bertrand. "The Study of Mathematics." The New Quarterly, Nov. 1907.

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Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love... If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

Carl Sagan

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Sagan, Carl. Cosmos. Random House, 1980.

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Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, and infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

Molly Haskell

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Haskell, Molly. Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir. William Morrow, 1990.

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The saying is true: “The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.”

William Shakespeare

Henry V

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Shakespeare, William. Henry V. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1599, The Curtain, Shoreditch, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "Henry the Fifth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 4.

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