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Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhautible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.

Joseph Campbell (writer)

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Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Pantheon Books, 1949, prologue.

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It takes no compromising to give people their rights... It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

Harvey Milk

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Milk, Harvey. Speech to the Joint International Longshoremen & Warehousemen's Union of San Francisco and to the Lafayette Club. 30 Sept. 1973, San Francisco, CA, USA.

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Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Louis Brandeis

Whitney v. California

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Brandeis, Louis. United States, Supreme Court. Whitney v. California. United States Reports, vol. 274, 16 May 1927, pp. 357-379. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/274/357/.

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But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas—that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate, is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Abrams v. United States

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Abrams v. United States. United States Report, vol. 250, 10 Nov. 1919, pp. 616-631. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/250/616/.

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The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Eric Hoffer

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Hoffer, Eric. Reflections on the Human Condition. Harper & Row, 1973, no. 172.

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"I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every court house, and, may I say, of every legislative body in the United States. I should like to have every court begin, "I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that we may be mistaken."

Learned Hand

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Hand, Learned. "Morals in Public Life." Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. 28 June 1951, Washington, DC, USA. Testimony.

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Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

William C. Westmoreland

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Westmoreland, William C. Quoted in Washington Post. 19 March 1982.

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I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Millay, Edna St. Vincent. "Dirge Without Music." The Buck in the Snow, and Other Poems. Harper & Brothers, 1928, st. 1.

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A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.

Aldo Leopold

A Sand County Almanac

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Leopold, Aldo. "The Land Ethic." A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There. Oxford University Press, 1949.

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I come into the peace of wild things
Who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light.

Wendell Berry

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Berry, Wendell. "The Peace of Wild Things." Openings. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.

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Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.

Donald Justice

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Justice, Donald. "Men at Forty." Night Light. Wesleyan University Press, 1967.

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The fog comes
On little cat feet.
It sits looking
Over harbour and city
On silent haunches
And then moves on.

Carl Sandburg

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Sandburg, Carl. "Fog." Chicago Poems. Henry Holt and Company, 1916, I. 1.

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Sandburg, Carl. "Fog." The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003, I. 1.

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Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind.

George Gaylord Simpson

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Simpson, George Gaylord. The Meaning of Evolution. Yale University Press, 1949, epilogue.

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I can't use liquor as a crutch, because a crutch helps me walk. Liquor severely screws up the way I walk. It ain't like a crutch, it's like a step I didn't see.

Mitch Hedberg

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Hedberg, Mitch. Comedy Central Presents. Comedy Central, 5 Jan. 1999.

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Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration.

George Mason

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Mason, George. Virginia Bill of Rights. 12 June 1776, article 3.

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It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From Angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold;
'Peace on the earth, good will to man
From Heaven's all gracious King,'
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.

Edmund Sears

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Sears, Edmund. "That Glorious Song of Old." The Christian Register, 1849, I. 1.

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The Puritans, who nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedom, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoying his.

Charles Farrar Browne

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Browne, Charles Farrar. "Introduction to the Club." London Punch Letters. c. 1866, no. 5.

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That community is already in process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where nonconformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denuciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

Learned Hand

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Hand, Learned. Speech to the Board of Regents. 24 Oct. 1952, University of the State of New York, Albany, NY, USA.

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On the geologic time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about. The mind blocks the information.

John McPhee

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McPhee, John. Basin and Range. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981.

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Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work-
I am the grass; I cover all.

Carl Sandburg

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Sandburg, Carl. "Grass." Cornhuskers. Henry Holt and Company, 1918, I. 1.

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Sandburg, Carl. "Grass." The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003, I. 1.

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