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It is really mortifying, sir, when a woman possessed of a common share of understanding considers the difference of education between the male and female sex, even in those families where education is attended to... Nay why should your sex wish for such a disparity in those whom they one day intend for companions and associates. Pardon me, sir, if I cannot help sometimes suspecting that this neglect arises in some measure from an ungenerous jealousy of rivals near the throne.

Abigail Adams

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Adams, Abigail. Letter to John Thaxter. 15 Feb. 1778.

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Adams, Abigail. "Letter to John Thaxter, 1778." The Adams Papers: The Adams Family Correspondence Volumes 1 & 2, edited by L. H. Butterfield. Anthenum, 1965.

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All religion, however, is nothing but the fantastic reflection in men's minds of those external forces which control their daily life.

Friedrich Engels

Anti-Duhring

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Engels, Frederick. "Herrn Eugen Dührings Umwälzung der Wissenschaft [Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science]." Vorwärts, 1878.

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Engels, Frederick. "Anti-During." Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works. Vol. 25, Int Pub Co Inc, 1987, pt. 3, ch. 5.

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"Genius" (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).

Thomas Carlyle

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Friedrich's Apprenticeship, First Stage." History of Frederick the Great. Vol. 1, London: Chapman and Hall, 1858, bk. 4, ch. 3.

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You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

W.E. Gladstone

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Gladstone, William E. Address on the reform bill. House of Commons meeting. 27 Apr. 1866, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Mankind has probably done more damage to the earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

Jacques Cousteau

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Cousteau, Jacques. "Consumer Society Is the Enemy." Interviewed by Nathan Gardels. New Perspectives Quarterly, 1999.

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They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

Charlie Parker

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Parker, Charlie. Interviewed by Michael Levin and John S. Wilson. Downbeat Magazine, 9 Sept. 1949.

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The perpetuity of our institutions depends upon ourselves...if we maintain the principles on which they were established they are destined to confer their benefits on countless generations yet to come.

Martin Van Buren

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren

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Van Buren, Martin. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1837, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.

Stephen King

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King, Steven. "Steven King'd Most Memorable Books of 2007." Entertainment Weekly, 21 Dec. 2007.

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The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep.

Audre Lorde

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Lorde, Audre. "Poetry Is Not a Luxury." Chrysalis, 1977.

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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Quoted in Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife: A Biography, by Julian Hawthorne. Vol. I, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893.

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Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

English translation: "Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault."

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Missale Romanum [The Roman Missal]. Milan, c. 1474.

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Roman Missal. Catholic Book Publishing, 2011.

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Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo-obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

Angela Davis

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Davis, Angela. Angela Davis: An Autobiography. Random House, 1974, ch. 1.

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I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

Lou Gehrig

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Gehrig, Lou. Farewell speech. Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day. 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York City, NY, USA.

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And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home.

Ronald Reagan

1989 Farewell Address

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Reagan, Ronald. "Farewell Address to the Nation." 11 Jan. 1989, Oval Office, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Dover Publications, 2019.

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We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

Chuck Palahniuk

Invisible Monsters

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Palahniuk, Chuck. Invisible Monsters. W. W. Norton & Company, 1999.

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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. 28 Nov. 1905, Court Theatre, London, England, UK, preface.

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Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, preface.

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Statements, indictments, bills are circulated, shuffled between judges, prosecutors, the Attorney General, the Lord Chancellor’s office; each step in the process clear, logical, and designed to create corpses by due process of law.

Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies

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Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies. Fourth Estate/Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

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What a silly thing Love is!...It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

Oscar Wilde

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Nightingale and the Rose." The Happy Prince and Other Tales. London: Duckworth and Co., 1888.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Nightingale and the Rose." Oscar Wilde: Complete Short Fiction, edited by Ian Small. Penguin Classics, 2003.