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We can never have enough of nature…. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Spring." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Spring." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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America stands alone as the world's indispensable nation.

Bill Clinton

Second Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton

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Clinton, William J. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1997, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Do get all on fire and be as cross as you please.

Susan B. Anthony

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Anthony, Susan B. Letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 5 June 1856.

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Thou art as a lion of the waters and as a dragon of the sea.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Quoting from Ezekiel 32:2.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 82.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 82.

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 15.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 15.

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It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

Mark Twain

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, ch. 12.

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 12.

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If you don't know, now you know.

Notorious BIG

Juicy

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The Notorious B.I.G. "Juicy." Ready to Die. Bad Boy Records/Arista Records, 1994.

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Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

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Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 21. Originally from Notebook, 1894.

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Always vote.

Walt Whitman

Democratic Vistas

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Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas. Washington D.C.: J. S. Redfield, 1871.

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Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas, edited by Ed Folsom. University Of Iowa Press, 2009.

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We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.

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The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Mark Twain

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

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Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1897, ch. 10.

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Twain, Mark. "Following the Equator." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 10.

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The Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.

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Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.

Mark Twain

Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." The Century Magazine, Nov. 1893-Oct. 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Pudd'nHead Wilson and Other Tales, edited by R.D. Gooder. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Thomas Jefferson

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to John W. Eppes. 24 June 1813.

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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Booker T. Washington

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Washington, Booker T. "Democracy and America." 30 Sept. 1896, Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, NY, USA.

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No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Benjamin Franklin

The Annual Register, Or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1779

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Thoughts on Commercial Subjects." The Annual Register, Or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, For the Year 1779. London: J. Dodsley, 1780.

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