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I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. Speech at the Grand Canyon. 6 May 1903, The Grand Canyon, AZ, USA.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The Natural Wonder of the Grand Canyon." Great Speeches of the 20th Century, edited by Bob Blaisdell. Dover Publications, 2011.

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I think that Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

Michael Herr

Dispatches

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Herr, Michael. "Colleagues." Dispatches. Alfred A. Knopf, 1977, pt. 3.

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At the stroke of the midnight hour, while the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Said just prior to the moment of India's independence from the British Empire.

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Nehru, Jawaharlal. "Tryst with Destiny." Indian Constituent Assembly. 14 Aug. 1947, New Delhi, India. Speech.

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Honoring the identity and the special heritage of each nation in the world, we shall never use our strength to try to impress upon another people our own cherished political and economic institutions.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

First Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1953, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Ours was the first society openly to define itself in terms of both spirituality and human liberty. It is that unique self-definition which has given us an exceptional appeal, but it also imposes on us a special obligation, to take on those moral duties which, when assumed, seem invariably to be in our own best interests.

Jimmy Carter

Inaugural Address of Jimmy Carter

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Carter, James E. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1977, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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A good collaboration produces universal thinking.

Robert Rauschenberg

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Rauschenberg, Robert. Quoted in Rauschenberg, by Barbara Rose. Vintage Books/Elizabeth Avedon Editions, 1987, p. 85.

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We are here not because we are law-breakers. We are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

Emmeline Pankhurst

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Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Hearsts's International Library, 1914.

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Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Vintage Classics, 2018.

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I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

Lucian Freud

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Freud, Lucian. Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere. Interviewed by Michael Kimmelman. Random House, 1998, p. 109.

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Great art picks up where nature ends.

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Chagall, Marc. "Painting: Midsummer Night's Dreamer." Time Magazine, 30 Jul. 1965.

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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while.

Aleister Crowley

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Crowley, Aleister. The Spirit of Solitude. Mandrake Press, 1929.

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Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury—to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. "Albert Einstein." Living Philosophies. Simon & Schuster, 1931, ch. 1.

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I want anyone tired, worn down, driven to the limits of endurance, to find calm and repose in my painting.

Henri Matisse

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Matisse, Henri. Quoted in "Henri Matisse." Les Cahiers d'aujourd'hui, written by Marcel Sembat. Paris: George Besson, 1913, no. 4.

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Matisse, Henri. Quoted in Matisse the Master, written by Hilary Spurling. Vol. 2, Penguin Classics, 2006.

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Three thousand years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax, you're goddamn right I'm living in the fucking past!

The Big Lebowski

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The Big Lebowski. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Working Title Films, 1998.

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Concern for the man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors; [..] concern for the great unsolved problems of the organization of labor and the distribution of goods in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. Speech at the California Institute of Technology. 16 Feb. 1931, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

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I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back.

Hermann Hesse

Demian

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk.

Ogden Nash

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Nash, Ogden. "The Cow." Free Wheeling. Simon and Schuster, 1931.

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Education is... A two-edged sword that can be used either for the progress of mankind or for its destruction.

Haile Selassie I

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Selassie, Haile. University graduation speech. 2 July 1963, University of Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH...