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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

Harold Macmillan

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MacMillan, Harold. Speech in Strasbourg. 16 Aug. 1950, Strasbourg, France.

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This country of ours is no sandbank, thrown up by some recent caprice of earth. It is an ancient land, honoured in the archives of civilisation, traceable into antiquity by its piety, its valour, and its sufferings. Every great European race has sent its stream to the river of Irish mind.

Thomas Davis

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Davis, Thomas. Literary and Historical Essays. New York: P.M. Haverty, 1879, pt. 3.

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Human blunders, however, usually, do more to shape history than human wickedness.

A.J.P. Taylor

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The Origins of the Second World War

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Taylor, A. J. P. The Origins of the Second World War. Hamish Hamilton, 1961, ch. 10.

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Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

Gerald Brenan

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Brenan, Gerald. Thoughts in a Dry Season: A Miscellany. Cambridge University Press, 1978.

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The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.

Bernard De Voto

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De Voto, Bernard. The Year of Decision: 1846. Little, Brown and Company, 1943, ch. 17.

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Life is short. Work is for those who will never be able to understand life. Idleness cannot degrade a man. To the discriminating eye it differs from laziness.

René Maran

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Maran, Rene. Batouala. Albin Michel, 1921, ch. 1.

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Maran, Rene. Batouala, translated by Adele Szold Seltzer. Heinemann, 1988, ch. 1.

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Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty. To courageous, self-reliant men, with confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning applied through the processes of popular government, no danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present, unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is opportunity for full discussion. If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence.

Louis Brandeis

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Brandeis, Louis. United States, Supreme Court. Whitney v. California. United States Reports, vol. 274, 16 May 1927, pp. 357-379. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/274/357/.

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When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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Krutch, Joseph Wood. "Reverence for Life: The Vandal and the Sportsman." The Great Chain of Life. Houghton Mifflin, 1956.

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A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinaesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status-all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido.

J.G. Ballard

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Ballard, J. G. "The Penthouse Interview: J. G. Ballard: Sci-Fi Seer." Interviewed by Lynn Barber. Penthouse, May 1970, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 26-30.

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Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.

Lord Acton

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Lord Acton. "Mr. Goldwin Smith's Irish History." The History of Freedom and Other Essays. Macmillan, 1907.

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Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.

Oliver Sacks

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Sacks, Oliver. The Mind's Eye. Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.

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For time is the medium of narration, as it is the medium of life. Both are inextricably bound up with it, as inextricably as are bodies in space. Similarly, time is the medium of music; music divides, measures, articulates time, and can shorten it, yet enhance its value, both at once.

Thomas Mann

The Magic Mountain

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Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 7.

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Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 7.

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In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly.

Laura Mulvey

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Mulvey, Laura. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." Screen, 1 Oct. 1975.

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What kind of a man are you? You have sat here and voted "guilty" with everyone else because there are some baseball tickets burning a hole in your pocket?

12 Angry Men

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12 Angry Men. Directed by Sidney Lumet, Orion-Nova Productions and Orion-Nova Pictures, 1957.

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What is finished...is the idea that this great country is dedicated to the freedom and flourishing of every individual in it. It's the individual that's finished. It's the single, solitary human being that's finished. It's every single one of you out there that's finished, because this is no longer a nation of independent individuals. It's a nation of some 200-odd million transistorized, deodorized, whiter-than-white, steel-belted bodies, totally unnecessary as human beings, and as replaceable as piston rods.

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Network. Directed by Sidney Lumet, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1976.

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When a man takes an oath, he's holding his own self in his own hands like water, and if he opens his fingers then, he needn't hope to find himself again.

A Man for All Seasons (film)

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A Man for All Seasons. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Highland Films, 1966.

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America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

Theodore H. White

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White, Theodore H. The Making of the President 1960. Atheneum Publishers, 1961, ch. 15.

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Dost thou, therefore, in the name of this Child, renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world, with all covetous desires of the same, and the sinful desires of the flesh, so that thou wilt not follow, nor be led by them?

The Book of Common Prayer

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The Book of Common Prayer (American). Episcopal Church, 1928.

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Faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for: there is all the difference in the world.

Tony Benn

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Benn, Tony. "Sayings of the Week." The Observer, 16 Apr. 1989.

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One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash, 1929. Houghton Mifflin, 1955, ch. 1, sect. 2.

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