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Send lawyers, guns, and money
The shit has hit the fan.

Warren Zevon

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Lawyers, Guns and Money

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Zevon, Warren. "Lawyers, Guns and Money." Excitable Boy. Asylum Records, 1978.

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If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.

Camille Paglia

Sexual Personae

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Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson. Yale University Press, 1990, ch. 1.

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There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there–good for you! But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

Elizabeth Warren

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Warren, Elizabeth. Remarks on campaign trail. Aug. 2011, Andover, MA, USA.

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I triple guarantee you, there are no American soldiers in Baghdad.

Mohammed al-Sahhaf

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Al-Sahhaf, Mohammed. Quoted in Daily Telegraph. 10 Apr. 2003.

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Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be that an act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void.

John Marshall

Marbury v. Madison

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Marshall, John. United States, Supreme Court. Marbury v. Madison. United States Reports, vol. 5, 24 Feb. 1803, pp. 137-180. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/5/137/.

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Warfare... Is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

Margaret Mead

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Mead, Margaret. "Warfare is Only an Invention--Not a Biological Necessity." Asia, Aug. 1940.

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No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "Third Annual Message to Congress." Joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives. 7 Dec. 1903, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Any port in a storm.

John Cleland

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Cleland, John. Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. London: G. Fenton, 1748-1749.

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Cleland, John. Fanny Hill or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. Modern Library, 2001.

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When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best... They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

Donald Trump

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Trump, Donald. Announcement of presidential candidacy. 16 June 2015, Trump Tower, New York City, NY, USA.

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What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

P.D. James

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James, P. D. Quoted in Face Magazine. Dec. 1986.

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We stand today on the edge of a New Frontier—the frontier of the 1960's—a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils—a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats...the New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.

John F. Kennedy

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Kennedy, John F. Address accepting the democratic nomination for president. Democratic National Convention. 15 July 1960, Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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Steal This Book

Abbie Hoffman

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Hoffman, Abbie. Steal This Book. Pirate Editions, 1971.

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Outside the Kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other…God and history will remember your judgment.

Haile Selassie I

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Selassie, Haile. Appeal to the League of Nations. 30 June 1936, League of Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.

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Norman oughte be iuge in his owne cause.

Reginald Pecock

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Pecock, Reginald. The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of the Clergy. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860.

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Pecock, Reginald. The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of the Clergy 2 Volume Set, edited by Churchill Babington. Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Owe your banker 1,000 and you are at his mercy; owe him 1 million and the position is reversed.

John Maynard Keynes

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Keynes, John Maynard. Memo circulated to British War Cabinet. 15 May 1945.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "Overseas Financial Policy in Stage III (1945)." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016.

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Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.

Bridget Anne Kelly

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Email instigating closure of bridge entrances as retribution against a political opponent of New Jersey governer Chris Christie.

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Kelly, Bridget Anne. E-mail to David Wildstein. 13 Aug. 2013.

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Kelly, Bridget Anne. Quoted in Dangerous Leaders: How and Why Lawyers Must Be Taught to Lead, written by Anthony C. Thompson. Stanford University Press, 2018, ch. 2.

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For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: Second Series (Emerson)

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “The Poet.” Essays: Second Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1844.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The Poet (1844)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Uniform pleasantness is rather a defect than a faculty. It shows that a man hasn't sense enough to know whom to despise.

Thomas Hardy

A Pair of Blue Eyes

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Hardy, Thomas. "A Pair of Blue Eyes." Tinsley's Magazine, Sept. 1872 - July 1873.

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Hardy, Thomas. A Pair of Blue Eyes. Wordsworth Editions, 1998.

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In contriving any system of government, and fixing the several checks and controls of the constitution, every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, than private interest.

David Hume

Essays, Moral and Political

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Hume, David. "Of the Independency of Parliament." Essays, Moral and Political. Edinburgh: A. Kincaid, 1741, no. 8.

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Hume, David. "Of the Independency of Parliament." Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary: Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp and Mark A Box. Oxford University Press, 2022, pt. 1, no. 4.

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Considering his position he became wonderfully free from the chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent Power.

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

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Hardy, Thomas. "Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented." The Graphic, July–Dec. 1891.

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Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, edited by Scott Elledge. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990.

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