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Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.

Raymond Chandler

The Simple Art of Murder

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Chandler, Raymond. "The Simple Art of Murder." Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1944.

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Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right... and a desire to know-but besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded, and envied kind of knowledge. I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.

John Adams

Read A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law at the National Archives website

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Adams, John. "A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law." Boston Gazette, 30 Sept. 1765.

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Adams, John. "A Disseratation on the Canon and Feudal Law." The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, edited by Charles Francis Adams. Vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. Speech in Colorado. Colorado Live Stock Association meeting. 29 Aug. 1910, Denver, CO, USA.

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We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth--but neither will we shrink from that risk at any time it must be faced...I call upon Chairman Khrushchev to halt and eliminate this clandestine, reckless, and provocative threat to world peace and to stable relations between our two nations...He has an opportunity now to move the world back from the abyss of destruction.

John F. Kennedy

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Kennedy, John F. Address on Soviet missiles in Cuba. 22 Oct. 1962, The White House, Washington, DC, USA. Radio and television address.

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We're especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, looney tunes, and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich.

Ronald Reagan

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Reagan, Ronald. Annual Convention of the American Bar Association. 8 July 1985, Constitution Hall, Washington, DC, USA.

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Yes, as through this world I've wandered
I've seen lots of funny men
Some will rob you with a six-gun
And some with a fountain pen.

Woody Guthrie

Pretty Boy Floyd

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Guthrie, Woody. "Pretty Boy Floyd." Dust Bowl Ballads. RCA Victor, 1964.

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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence

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Pirsig, Robert M. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. William Morrow and Company, 1974.

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We all know that books burn-yet we have the greater knowledge that books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind. In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Message to American Booksellers Association. Annual banquet of the American Booksellers Association. 6 May 1942, Astor Hotel, New York City, NY, USA.

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The Bible is literature, not dogma.

George Santayana

Introduction to Spinoza's Ethics

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Santayana, George. Introduction. Ethics, by Spinoza, translated by A. Boyle. Everyman's Library, 1910.

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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years go on.

Steve Jobs

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Jobs, Steve. Stanford Commencement Address. 12 June 2005, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

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I just want you to know that you're very special... And the only reason I'm telling you is that I don't know if anyone else ever has.

Stephen Chbosky

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Pocket Books, 1999.

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He is dreadfully married. He's the most married man I ever saw in my life.

Artemus Ward

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Ward, Artemus. "Brigham Young's Palace." 1869, Egyptian Hall, London, UK. Lecture.

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I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The American Scholar

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar." Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College. 31 Aug. 1837, First Parish in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar (1837)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Love is holy because it is like grace-the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Marilynne Robinson

Gilead

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Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

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Smoking... Kills you, and if you are killed, you have lost a very important part of your life.

Brooke Shields

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Shields, Brooke. Testimony at House of Representatives hearings on cigarette advertising. House of Representatives meeting. 25 June 1981, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

Flannery O'Connor

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O'Connor, Flannery. "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction." Dorothy Lamar Blount Lecture Series. 28 Oct. 1960, Wesleyan College, Macon, GA, USA.

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