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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.

T. E. Lawrence

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The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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Lawrence, T. E. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. 1926, introductory chapter.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Man and Superman

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Man and Superman: Maxims for Revolutionists." Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021. Originally published by Archibald and Constable Co., Ltd., 1903.

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Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.

Jonathan Franzen

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Franzen, Jonathan. "Perchance to Dream: In the Age of Images, a Reason to Write Novels." Harper's Magazine, Apr. 1996.

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Franzen, Jonathan. "Why Bother?" How to Be Alone. Picador, 2002.

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A gay Vietnam veteran... They gave me a medal for killing two men-and a discharge for loving one.

Leonard Matlovich

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Inscription on his tombstone.

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Matlovich, Leonard. Inscription on tombstone. 1988.

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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Havelock Ellis

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Ellis, Havelock. Little Essays of Love and Virtue. George H. Doran Company/A & C Black, 1922, ch. 7.

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It is a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it: if you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other you are very likely to get what you want.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Maugham, William Somerset. "The Treasure." The Mixture as Before. William Heinemann/Doubleday Doran, 1940.

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Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night. But it is this gleam which is everything.

Henri Poincaré

The Value of Science

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Poincare, Henri. Valeur de la Science [The Value of Science]. Flammarion, 1904, ch. 11.

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Poincare, Henri. The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare, edited by Stephen Jay Gould. Random House Publishing Group, 2001.

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Under certain circumstances, one nowhere feels as lonely and lost as in the metropolitan crowd.

Georg Simmel

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The Metropolis and Mental Life

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Simmel, Georg. "Die Großstädte und das Geistesleben [The Metropolis and Mental Life]." The First German Municipal Exposition. 1903, Dresden, Germany.

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Simmel, Georg. "The Metropolis and Mental Life." Classic Essays on the Culture of Cities. Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969.

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Habit and custom may be the wisdom of unlettered men, but they come from the sound ancient heart of humanity.

Russell Kirk

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The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

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Buy The Conservative Mind Buy The Conservative Mind

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Kirk, Russell. The Conservative Mind. Henry Regnery Company, 1953, ch. 2, sect. 4.

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There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go-if there are no doors or windows-he walks through a wall.

Bernard Malamud

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Malamud, Bernard. "Man in the Drawer." Rembrandt's Hat. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1973.

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Henry S. Haskins

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Haskins, Henry S [published anonymously]. "Metapsychics." Meditations in Wall Street. William Morrow & Company, 1940.

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Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent.

Gary Shilling

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Shilling, Gary. Quoted in The Advertiser. 1986.

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Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, while there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Eugene Debs

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Federal Court. US v. Eugene V. Debs. RG 21, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Criminal Case Files, 1912–1977, Criminal Case #4057. 9. NYT, 18 Sept. 1918.

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