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Of my two "handicaps," being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

Shirley Chisholm

Unbought and Unbossed

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Chisholm, Shirley. Unbought and Unbossed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1970, introduction.

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The cure for the ills of Democracy is more Democracy.

Jane Addams

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Addams, Jane. Democracy and Social Ethics. The Macmillan Company, 1902, introduction.

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Best advice I ever got was an old friend mine, a black friend, who said you have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.

James Baldwin

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Baldwin, James. Quoted in "Go the Way Your Blood Beats." Interviewed by Richard Goldstein. Village Voice, 26 June 1984.

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Baldwin, James. "Go the Way Your Blood Beats." James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Interviews. Melville House, 2014.

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A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image.

Joan Didion

The White Album

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Didion, Joan. "In the Islands." The White Album. Simon & Schuster, 1979.

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Light is a delicate thing.

Georges Braque

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Liberman, Alexander. The Artist in His Studio. Viking Press, 1960, ch. 3.

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Love's a disease. But curable.

Rose Macaulay

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Macaulay, Rose. Crewe Train. W. Collins Sons & Co./Boni and Liveright, 1926, ch. 13.

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Macaulay, Rose. Crewe Train. Virago, 2018, ch. 13.

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The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Joseph Schumpeter

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Schumpeter, Joseph Alois. History of Economic Analysis. Oxford University Press, 1954, pt. 1, ch. 4, note 10.

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She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.

Beauty and the Beast

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Beauty and the Beast. Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Feature Animation/Silver Screen Partners, 1991.

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Communism subjects the individual to arrest without lawful cause, punishment without trial, and forced labor as the chattel of the state. It decrees what information he shall receive, what art he shall produce, what leaders he shall follow, and what thoughts he shall think.

Harry Truman

Second Inaugural Address of Harry Truman

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Truman, Harry S. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1949, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

Mitch Hedberg

Strategic Grill Locations

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Hedberg, Mitch. Strategic Grill Locations. 7 Sept. 1999, The Laff Stop Comedy Club, Houston, Texas, USA.

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So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

Susan Sontag

On Photography

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Sontag, Susan. "The Heroism of Vision." On Photography. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.

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You can't kill the boogeyman!

Halloween

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Halloween. Directed by John Carpenter, Compass International Pictures/Falcon International Productions, 1978.

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A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn. For in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like the leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree.

George H.W. Bush

Inaugural Address of George H.W. Bush

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Bush, George H. W. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1989, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Do not overlook the little joys!

Hermann Hesse

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Hesse, Hermann. "On Little Joys." My Belief: Essays on Life and Art, edited by Theodore Ziolkowski, translated by Denver Lindley. Farrar, Straus and Gioux, 1974. Originally published as "Virtuosen-Konzert." Neue Zürcher Zeitung, c. 1929.

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Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition... The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present.

Simone de Beauvoir

The Second Sex

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De Beauvoir, Simone. Le Deuxième Sexe [The Second Sex]. Vol. 2, Gallimard, 1949.

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De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Vintage, 2011.

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It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.

A Clockwork Orange

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A Clockwork Orange. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Polaris Productions/Hawk Films, 1971.

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When we are no longer able to change a situation... We are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

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Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

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Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

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Only the paranoid survive.

Andrew Grove

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Grove, Andrew. Quoted in "Ideas & Trends; The Chip on Intel's Shoulder." Written by John Markoff. The New York Times, 18 Dec. 1994, sec. 4, p. 6.

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"We, the people." It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787 I was not included in that "We, the people." I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people."

Barbara Jordan

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Jordan, Barbara. Statement at Debate on Articles of Impeachment. U.S. House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Hearings. 25 July 1974, Washington, DC, USA.

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Older men declare war. But it is youth who must fight and die.

Herbert Hoover

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Hoover, Herbert. Address in Chicago. Republican National Convention. 27 June 1944, Chicago, IL, USA.

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