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His heart was in his garden; but his brain
Wandered at will among the fiery stars.

Frederick Goddard Tuckerman

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Tuckerman, Frederick Goddard. "Sonnets: Part II." Poems. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864.

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The body, she says, is subject to the forces of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

Saul Bellow

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Bellow, Saul. "Him with His Foot in His Mouth." Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories. Harper & Row, 1984.

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Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

Henry Clay

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Clay, Henry. Speech in Kentucky. Public dinner. 16 May 1829, Fowler's Garden, Lexington, KY, USA.

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They have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But they have been hung, and burned, and shot-and their tyrants have been their historians!

Lydia Maria Child

An Appeal on Behalf of That Class of Americans Called Africans

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On American slaves.

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Child, Lydia Maria. An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1833, ch. 6.

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Literature is humanity talking to itself.

Norman Rush

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Mortals

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Rush, Norman. Mortals. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

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The really important "great" things are never center stage of life's dramas; they're always "in the wings." That's why it's so essential for us to be mindful of the humble and the deep rather than the flashy and superficial.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 144.

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If they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai Stevenson

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Stevenson, Adlai. Campaign statement. 10 Sept. 1952, Fresno, CA, USA.

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Look for the silver lining
Whene'er a cloud
Appears in the blue.

Buddy DeSylva

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DeSylva, Buddy. "Look for the Silver Lining." Sally. Composed by Jerome Kern. 1920, New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.

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Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.

E.B. White

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White, E.B. "The Art of the Essay No. 1." Interviewed by George Plimpton and Frank H. Crowther. Paris Review, Fall 1969, www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4155/the-art-of-the-essay-no-1-e-b-white.

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I lean toward the enchantment, the visual power, of the aesthetically rejected subject.

Walker Evans

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Evans, Walker. Interviewed by Yale Alumni Magazine. 1974.

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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

A.J. Liebling

The Wayward Press

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Liebling, A. J. "The Wayward Press: Do You Belong in Journalism?" The New Yorker, 7 May 1960.

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I preach that there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them there's only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Flannery O'Connor

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O'Connor, Flannery. Wise Blood. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1952, ch. 10.

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The modern city is a place for banking and prostitution and very little else.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Wright, Frank Lloyd. Quoted in Frank Lloyd Wright: His Life and His Architecture, written by Robert C. Twombly. Harper & Row, 1973, ch. 9.

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I long ago come to the conclusions that all life is 6 to 5 against.

Damon Runyon

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Runyon, Alfred Damon. "A Nice Price." Money From Home. Frederick A. Stokes, 1935.

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Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

Joyce Kilmer

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Read Trees at Poetry Foundation

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Kilmer, Joyce. "Trees." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, 1913, I. 11.

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All those who try to go it sole alone,
Too proud to be beholden for relief,
Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

Robert Frost

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Frost, Robert. "Haec Fabula Docet." Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1946, I. 18.

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The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.

Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West

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McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House, 1985, ch. 17.

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The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and... He does it without destroying something else.

John Updike

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Updike, John. "John Updike, The Art of Fiction No. 43." Interviewed by Charles Thomas Samuels. The Paris Review, Issue 45, Winter 1968.

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We can do well in this country. We will have difficult times; we've had difficult times in the past; we will have difficult times in the future. It is not the end of violence; it is not the end of lawlessness; it is not the end of disorder. But the vast majority of white people and the vast majority of black people in this country want to live together, want to improve the quality of our life, and want justice for all human beings who abide in our land.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Kennedy, Robert F. Remarks on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 4 Apr. 1968, Indianapolis, IN, USA.

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I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all agnosticism means.

Clarence Darrow

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Darrow, Clarence. Criminal Court of Tennessee. The State of Tennessee vs. John Thomas Scopes. 21 July 1925.

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