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That Calvinistic sense of Innate Depravity and Original Sin, from whose visitations, in some shape or other, no deeply thinking mind is always and wholly free.

Herman Melville

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Melville, Herman. "Hawthorne and His Mosses." The Literary World. New York: Osgood and Company, 1850.

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Melville, Herman. "Hawthorne and His Mosses." Tales, Poems, and Other Writings. Modern Library, 2002.

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My mind is a raging torrent flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

Blazing Saddles

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Blazing Saddles. Directed by Mel Brooks, Crossbow Productions, 1974.

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You know, I started out on clean up, just like you guys. But now…see, I’m washing lettuce. Soon I’ll be on fries; then the grill. A year or two, I make assistant manager, and that’s where the big bucks start rollin' in.

Coming to America

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Coming To America. Directed by John Landis, Eddie Murphy Productions, 1988.

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I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.

Ogden Nash

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Nash, Ogden. "Song of the Open Road." The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 1932.

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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The results would be an Encyclopedia of Error.

Lord Acton

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Lord Acton. Letter to Mary Gladstone. 24 Apr. 1881.

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Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Niebuhr, Reinhold. "Humour and Faith." Discerning the Signs of the Times: Sermons for Today and Tomorrow. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946.

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Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.

Wendell Berry

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Berry, Wendell. "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front." The Country of Marriage. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.

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Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

John Updike

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Updike, John. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs. Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, ch. 6.

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No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength.

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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Von Moltke, Helmuth. "Uber Strategie." Kriegsgeschichtliche Einzelschriften. Vol. 13, Berlin: Mittler, 1891.

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Von Moltke, Helmuth. "Plan of Operations: (1871-81)." Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings, translated by Daniel J. Hughes and Harry Bell. Presidio Press, 1995.

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If we simply accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything... That smacks of discrimination or slander.

Mary McLeod Bethune

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Bethune, Mary McLeod. "Certain Unalienable Rights." What the Negro Wants, edited by Rayford Logan. University of North Carolina Press, 1944.

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You know, when Khruschev was forced out, he sat down and he wrote two letters and gave them to his successor. He said, "When you get yourself into a situation you can't get out of, open the first letter, and you'll be safe. When you get yourself into another situation you can't get out of, open the second letter." Well, soon enough, this guy found himself in a tight place so you open the first letter which says blame everything on me. So he blamed the old man, it worked like a charm. When he got himself into a second situation he couldn't get out of, he opened the second letter. It said, "Sit down, and write two letters."

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Traffic. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Compulsion Inc.,/Bedford Falls Productions/USA Films/Initial Entertainment Group, 2000.

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We look before and after,
And pine for what is not:
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

To a Skylark

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "To a Skylark." Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama, in Four Acts, With Other Poems. London: Charles and James Ollier, 1820, I. 88.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "To a Skylark." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 88.

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America, our America, the America builded on the foundation laid by the inspired fathers, can be a party to no permanent military alliance. It can enter into no political commitments, nor assume any economic obligations which will subject our decisions to any other than our own authority.

Warren G. Harding

Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding

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Harding, William G. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1921, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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There is probably no sensitive heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied at one time or another with his latent homosexuality.

Norman Mailer

The Homosexual Villain

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Mailer, Norman. "The Homosexual Villain." Advertisements for Myself. Harvard University Press, 1959. Originally published in One Magazine, Jan. 1955.

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This age thinks better of a gilded fool
Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Thomas Dekker

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Old Fortunatus

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Dekker, Thomas. The Pleasant Comedie of Old Fortunatus. 1599, Richmond Palace, England, UK, act 1, sc. 1.

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Dekker, Thomas. Old Fortunatus, edited by David McInnis. Manchester University Press, 2019, act 1, sc. 1.

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In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than the glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

Theodor Adorno

Minima Moralia

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Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben [Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life]. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1951.

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Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, translated by E. F. N. Jephcott. Verso, 2020.

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Anarchism, then, really, stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraints of government.

Emma Goldman

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Goldman, Emma. "Anarchism: What It Really Stands For." Anarchism and Other Essays. Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1910.

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Exile is predicated on the existence of, love for, and a real bond with one's native place; the universal truth of exile is not that one has lost that love or home, but that inherent in each is an unexpected, unwelcome loss. Regard experiences then as if they were to disappear.

Edward Said

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Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. Chatto & Windus, 1993.

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Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Max Beerbohm

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Beerbohm, Max. "Hosts and Guests." And Even Now. William Heinemann, 1920. Originally published in Harper's Magazine, 1919.

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The commonwealth of Venice in their armory have this inscription: "Happy is that city which in time of peace thinks of war."

Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1621, pt. 2.

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by Holbrook Jackson. New York Review Books, 2001, pt. 2.

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