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The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their will, and lives only by their will.

John Marshall

Cohens v. Virginia

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Marshall, John. United States, Supreme Court. Cohens v. Virginia. United States Reports, vol. 19, 4 Mar. 1821, pp. 264-448. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/19/264/.

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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.

Willa Cather

O Pioneers!

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers, edited by Sharon O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again-but it finds a tougher surface.

Willa Cather

The Song of the Lark

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Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915, pt. 2, ch. 11.

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Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Vintage, 1999, pt. 2, ch. 11.

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And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

Dr. Seuss

The King's Stilts

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Dr. Seuss. The King's Stilts. Random House, 1939.

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We must push as hard as they push, and then push a little stronger.

Harvey Milk

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Milk, Harvey. "Harvey Speaks Out." Bay Area Reporter, 8 Dec. 1977.

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We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Grutter v. Bollinger

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O'Connor, Sandra Day. United States, Supreme Court. Grutter v. Bollinger. United States Reports, vol. 539, 23 June 2003, pp. 306-395. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/539/306/.

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We realize that the greatest things that remain to be done must be done with the whole world for stage and in cooperation with the wide and universal forces of mankind, and we are making our spirits ready for those things.

Woodrow Wilson

Second Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson

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Wilson, Woodrow. "Second Inaugural Address." 5 Mar. 1917, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.

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, introduction.

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God made man, without man's consent, and made his nature, too; made it vicious instead of angelic, and then said, Be angelic, or I will punish you and destroy you. But no matter, God is responsible for everything man does, all the same; He can't get around that fact. There is only one Criminal, and it is not man.

Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. "Little Bessie." Fables of Man. University of California Press, 1972, ch. 2.

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Twain, Mark. "Little Bessie." The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings. University of California Press, 2005, ch. 2.

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You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

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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What if someone gave a war & Nobody came?
Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.

Allen Ginsberg

Graffiti 12th Cubicle Men's Room Syracuse Airport

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Ginsberg, Allen. "Graffiti 12th Cubicle Men's Room Syracuse Airport." The Fall of America: Poems of These States. City Lights Bookstore, 1973.

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The jaws of power are always opened to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible to destroy, the freedom of thinking, speaking and writing.

John Adams

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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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You can't be serious!

John McEnroe

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McEnroe, John. Quoted in N.Y. Post. 22 June 1981. Originally a comment to empire at Wimbledon tennis tournament. 22 June 1981, London, England, UK.

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You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

Rahm Emanuel

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Emanuel, Rahm. Quoted in "In Crisis, Opportunity for Obama." Written by Gerald F. Seib. Wall Street Journal, 21 Nov. 2008.

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The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.

Jonathan Edwards

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Edwards, Jonathan. "Procrastination or The Sin and Folly of Depending on Future Time." c. 1834. Sermon.

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History suggests only that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Milton Friedman

Capitalism and Freedom

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Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. University of Chicago Press, 1962, ch. 1.

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If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

John Green

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Green, John. Looking for Alaska. Dutton Juvenile, 2005.

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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable-but then, so did the divine right of kings.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Le Guin, Ursula K. Speech in Acceptance at the National Book Foundation Metal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. 19 Nov. 2014, The National Book Foundation, New York City, NY, USA, https://www.ursulakleguin.com/nbf-medal.

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Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.

Steve Bannon

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Bannon, Steve. "Ringside With Steve Bannon at Trump Tower as the President-Elect’s Strategist Plots 'An Entirely New Political Movement'." Interviewed by Michael Wolff. Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2016.

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What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red, because I am Sioux, because I was born where my fathers lived, because I would die for my people and my country?

Sitting Bull

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Sitting Bull. Speech to Major Brotherton. 19 or 20 July 1881, Fort Buford, ND, USA.

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Sitting Bull. "What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken?" Great Speeches by Native Americans, edited by Bob Blaisdell. Dover Publications, 2000.

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