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It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.

C.L.R. James

The Black Jacobins

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James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. Secker & Warburg, 1938, ch. 12.

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If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Abraham Maslow

The Psychology of Science

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Maslow, Abraham. The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance. Harper & Row, 1966, foreword.

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Some people are far more sensitive to resemblances, and far more ready to point out wherein they consist, than others are. They are the wits, the poets, the inventors, the scientific men, the practical geniuses.

William James

The Principles of Psychology

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James, William. The Principles of Psychology. Vol. 1, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890, ch. 13.

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Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

George S. Patton

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Patton, George Smith. "Mechanized Forces." Jan. 1933, Fort Myer, VA, USA. Lecture.

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Sometimes, it's like a hair across your cheek. You can't see it, you can't find it with your fingers, but you keep brushing at it because the feel of it is irritating.

Marian Anderson

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Anderson, Marian. Quoted in Ladies' Home Journal. Sept. 1960.

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The man of business…goes on Sunday to the church with the regularity of the village blacksmith, there to renounce and abjure before his God the line of conduct which he intends to pursue with all his might during the following week.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Economic." Fabian Essays in Socialism. The Fabian Society, 1889.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Economic." Political Writings. Oxford University Press, 2021.

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The truth is, that the law is always approaching, and never reaching, consistency. It is forever adopting new principles from life at one end, and it always retains old ones from history at the other, which have not yet been absorbed or sloughed off. It will become entirely consistent only when it ceases to grow.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Early Forms of Liability." 23 Nov. 1880, The Lowell Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Early Forms of Liability." The Common Law. Belknap Press, 2009.

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The Sultan asked for a Signet motto, that should hold good for Adversity or Prosperity. Solomon gave him, "This also shall pass away."

Edward FitzGerald

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Fitzgerald, Edward. Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances. London: William Pickering, 1852.

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There is a silence where hath been no sound,
There is a silence where no sound may be,
In the cold grave-under the deep, deep sea.

Thomas Hood

Silence

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Hood, Thomas. "Silence." The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and Other Poems. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green/Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1827.

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Hood, Thomas. "Silence." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.

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We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave-to the ancient enemies of man-half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions. On their resolution depends the survival for us all.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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Stevenson, Adlai. Speech in Switzerland. Economic and Social Council of United Nations meeting. 9 July 1965, Geneva, Switzerland.

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Growth was seen as an endless series of daily choices and decisions in each of which one can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

Abraham Maslow

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Maslow, Abraham. The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance. Harper & Row, 1966, ch. 3.

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The attitude above all others which I feel sure is no longer valid is the arrogance of power, the tendency of great nations to equate power with virtue and major responsibilities with a universal mission.

J. William Fulbright

The Arrogance of Power

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Fulbright, J. William. The Arrogance of Power. Random House, 1966, introduction.

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Birds do it, bees do it,
Even educated fleas do it.
Let's do it, let's fall in love.

Cole Porter

Let's Do It

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Porter, Cole. "Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love." Paris. Performed by Irene Bordoni. 1928, Music Box Theatre, New York City, NY, USA.

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The flow'ry way that leads to the broad gate and the great fire.

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. 5.

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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. 5.

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I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

Samuel Pepys

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Pepys, Samuel. Diary entry. 17 June 1668.

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I am not mad...but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.

Apostle Paul

Acts 26:25

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Acts 26:25).

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A man who lies, thinking it is the truth, is an honest man, and a man who tells the truth, believing it to be a lie, is a liar.

William Safire

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Safire, William. Before the Fall: An Inside View of the Pre-Watergate White House. Doubleday, 1975, prologue.

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It's not pining, it's passed on. This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.

John Cleese

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"Full Frontal Nudity." Monty Python's Flying Circus, written by Graham Chapman and John Cleese and Eric Idle, directed by Ian MacNaughton, season 1, episode 8, BBC, 1969.

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