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The first time you do something only happens once.

Chris Burden

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Burden, Chris. "Public Offering." Interviewed by Kevin West. W Magazine, 1 May 2008, https://www.wmagazine.com/story/chris-burden.

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Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

Katherine Anne Porter

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Porter, Katherine Anne. Ship of Fools. Little, Brown and Company, 1962, pt. 3.

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair

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Sinclair, Upton. I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked. Farrar & Rinehart, 1935.

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She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

J.D. Salinger

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Salinger, J. D. "A Girl I Knew." Good Housekeeping, Feb. 1948.

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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries

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De Vries, Peter. The Tunnel of Love. Little, Brown and Company, 1954, ch. 8.

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Kitsch is mechanical and operates by formulas. Kitsch is vicarious experience and faked sensations... Kitsch is the epitome of all that is spurious in the life of our times.

Clement Greenberg

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Greenberg, Clement. "Avant-Garde and Kitsch." Partisan Review, 1939.

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A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

George F. Kennan

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Kennan, George Frost. The Cloud of Danger: Current Realities of American Foreign Policy. Little, Brown and Company, 1977, ch. 13.

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The century on which we are entering-the century which will come into being after this war-can be and must be the century of the common man.

Henry A. Wallace

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Wallace, Henry. "The Century of the Common Man." Free World Association meeting. 8 May 1942, Grand Ballroom, Commodore Hotel, New York City, NY, USA.

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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan

Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

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Sagan, Carl. Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science. Random House, 1979, pt. 2, ch. 5.

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The history of man has just begun: in the aeons which lie before him lie limitless hope or limitless despair. The choice is his; the present choice is ours. It is worth the trial.

Learned Hand

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Hand, Learned. "A Pledge of Allegiance." I Am An American Day. 20 May 1945, Central Park, New York City, NY, USA.

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When it's over I don't want to wonder
If I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

Mary Oliver

When Death Comes

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Oliver, Mary. "When Death Comes." New and Selected Poems. Beacon Press, 1992, I. 24.

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And, precisely because it is our flag that is involved, one's response to the flag-burner may exploit the uniquely persuasive power of the flag itself. We can imagine no more appropriate response to burning a flag than waving one's own, no better way to counter a flag burner's message than by saluting the flag that burns, no surer means of preserving the dignity even of the flag that burned than by—as one witness here did—according its remains a respectful burial. We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its desecration, for in doing so we dilute the freedom that this cherished emblem represents.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Texas v. Johnson

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Brennan, William J, Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Texas v. Johnson. United States Reports, vol. 491, 21 June 1989, pp. 397-439. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/491/397/.

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Man is, or should be, woman's protector and defender. The natural and proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life. The Constitution of the family organization, which is founded in the divine ordinance, as well as the nature of things, indicates the domestic sphere as that which properly belongs to the domain and functions of womanhood... The paramount destiny and mission of woman are to fulfil the noble and benign offices of wife and mother. This is the law of the Creator.

Joseph P. Bradley

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Bradwell v. State of Illinois

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Bradley, Joseph P. United States, Supreme Court. Bradwell v. State of Illinois. United States Reports, vol. 83 (16 Wall.), 15 Apr. 1873, pp. 130-142, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/83/130/.

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It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.

Robert H. Jackson

American Communications Assn. v. Douds

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Jackson, Robert H. United States, Supreme Court. American Communications Assn. v. Douds. United States Reports, vol. 339, 8 May 1950, pp. 382-453. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/339/382/.

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The world is gradually becoming a place where I do not care to be any more.

John Berryman

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Berryman, John. His Toy, His Dream, His Rest. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968, poem no. 149.

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If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in and drop out.

Timothy Leary

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Leary, Timothy. The Politics of Ecstasy. Ronin Publishing, 1990, ch. 21. Originally stated during a lecture, June 1966.

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Heaven,-I'm in heaven-And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing, cheek to cheek.

Fred Astaire

Cheek to Cheek

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Berlin, Irving. "Cheek-to-Cheek." Top Hat. Directed by Mark Sandrich. Performed by Fred Astaire. RKO Radio Pictures, 1935.

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Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in a bed.

Charles Lindbergh

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Lindbergh, Charles. Journal entry. 26 Aug. 1938.

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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Eric Hoffer

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Hoffer, Eric. The Passionate State of Mind, and Other Aphorisms. Harper & Row, 1955, no. 33.

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Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subject only in outline, but that every word tell.

William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White.

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Strunk, William, Jr. The Elements of Style. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1920, ch. 2, sec. 13.

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Strunk, William, Jr. and E. B. White. The Elements of Style. Penguin Books, 2007, ch. 2, sec. 13.

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