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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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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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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike

Hugging the Shore

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Updike, John. Hugging the Shore. Alfred A. Knopf, 1983, foreword.

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In the factory, we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.

Charles H. Revson

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Revson, Charles. Quoted in Fire and Ice: The Story of Charles Revson, the Man Who Built the Revlon Empire, written by Andrew P. Tobias. ‎William Morrow & Co., 1976, ch. 8.

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Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned... Until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation... Until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes... Until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race... Until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained.

Haile Selassie I

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Selassie, Haile. Address to the United Nations General Assembly. United Nations General Assembly. 4 Oct. 1963, New York, NY, USA.

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Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Aldo Leopold

A Sand County Almanac

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Leopold, Aldo. "The Land Ethic." A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There. Oxford University Press, 1949.

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I've always wished for more artistic talent. Well, murder can be an art, too. The power to kill can be just as satisfying as the power to create.

Rope

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Rope. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Transatlantic Pictures, 1948.

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One does not make peace with one's friends. One makes peace with one's enemies.

Yitzhak Rabin

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Rabin, Yitzhak. Quoted in Jerusalem Post. 26 Nov. 1993.

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There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.

Suzanne LaFollette

The Beginnings of Emancipation

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LaFollette, Suzanne. Concerning Women. Albert & Charles Boni, 1926, ch. 1.

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Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Fran Lebowitz

Tips for Teens

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Lebowitz, Fran. "Tips for Teens." Social Studies. Random House, 1981.

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Happy trails to you, until we meet again
Happy trails to you, keep smilin' until then.

Dale Evans

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Evans, Dale. “Happy Trails.” Performed by Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. RCA Victor, 1952.

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Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Allen Saunders

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Saunders, Allen. Quoted in Reader's Digest. Jan. 1957.

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The world began without the human race and it will end without it... Man has never-save only when he reproduces himself-done other than cheerfully dismantle millions upon millions of structures and reduce their elements to a state in which they can no longer be reintegrated.

Claude Levi-Strauss

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Tristes Tropiques

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Levi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes Tropiques [Sad Tropics]. Librairie Plon, 1955, pt. 9, ch. 36.

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Levi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes Tropiques, translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Penguin Classics, 2012, pt. 9, ch. 36.

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I fired him because he wouldn't respect the authority of the President. That's the answer to that. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail.

Harry Truman

On Douglas MacArthur.

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Truman, Harry S. Quoted in Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, written by Merle Miller. Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1974, ch. 24.

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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

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Whitehead, Alfred North. Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, edited by Lucien Price. David. R. Godine, 2008, ch. 22. Originally from dialogue with Lucien Price, 30 Aug. 1941.

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