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The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote.

Albert A. Michelson

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Michelson, Albert A. "Comparison of the Microscope and Telescope with the Interferometer." Light Waves and Their Uses lecture series. 1899, Lowell Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

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The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that is, has an incomplete set of chromosomes. In other words, the male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage. To be male is to be deficient, emotionally limited; maleness is a deficiency disease and males are emotional cripples.

Valerie Solanas

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S.C.U.M. Manifesto

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Solanas, Valerie. S.C.U.M. Manifesto. Self-published, 1967.

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Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

Theodore Parker

A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion

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Parker, Theodore. A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion. Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1842.

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Without the means to prevent, and to control the timing of, conception, economic and political rights have limited meaning and women. If women cannot plan their pregnancies, they can plan little else in their lives.

Alice S. Rossi

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The Feminist Papers

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Rossi, Alice S. The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir. Columbia University Press, 1973, pt. 3.

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Whenever I walk people try to hand me out flyers. And when someone tries to hand me out a flyer it's kinda like they're saying, "Here, you throw this away."

Mitch Hedberg

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

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To be a slave was to be a human being under conditions in which that humanity was denied. They were not slaves. They were people. Their condition was slavery.

Julius Lester

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To Be a Slave

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Lester, Julius. To Be a Slave. Dial Books for Young Readers, 1968, ch. 1.

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What factors are at play, for example, when people of high IQ flounder and those of modest IQ do surprisingly well? I would argue that the difference quite often lies in the abilities called here emotional intelligence, which include self control, zeal and persistence, and the ability to motivate oneself.

Daniel Goleman

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Goleman, Daniel. "Aristotle's Challenge." Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. Bantam Books, 1995.

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Every nation has its war party. It is not the party of democracy. It is the party of autocracy. It seeks to dominate absolutely. It is commercial, imperialistic, ruthless... If there is not sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another, possibly more effective pretext after war is on.

Robert M. LaFollette, Sr.

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La Follette, Robert M, Sr. Quoted in "The Right of the Citizen to Oppose War and the Right of Congress to Shape the War Policy." The Progressive, 1 June 1917.

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La Follette, Robert M, Sr. Quoted in The Historic Unfulfilled Promise, written by Howard Zinn. City Lights Publishers, 2012, ch. 19.

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By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.

C. Wright Mills

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The Power Elite

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Mills, C. Wright. The Power Elite. Oxford University Press, 1956, ch. 1.

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History does not provide us with any instance of a society that repressed the economic liberties of the individual while being solicitous of his other liberties.

Irving Kristol

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Two Cheers for Capitalism

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Kristol, Irving. Two Cheers for Capitalism. Basic Books, 1978, preface.

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My alma mater was books.

Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley. Grove Press, 1965.

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Be good and you will be lonesome.

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: The American Publishing Company, 1897, frontispiece.

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To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle,
Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

Walt Whitman

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Whitman, Walt. "Miracles." Leaves of Grass. Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1881-82.

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Whitman, Walt. "Miracles." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.

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With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Debate with Stephen A. Douglas." 21 Aug. 1858, Ottawa, IL, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Ottawa, Illinois, August 21, 1858." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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O to be self-balanced for contingencies,
To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

Walt Whitman

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Whitman, Walt. "Me Imperturbe." Leaves of Grass. Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1881-82.

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Whitman, Walt. "Me Imperturbe." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.

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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

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The intention of the lawgiver is the law.

Abraham Lincoln

First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1861, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugral Address, March 4, 1861." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 2018.

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