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I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel;
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.

Alfred Tennyson

In Memoriam A.H.H.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. In Memoriam A.H.H. London: Edward Moxon, 1850, pt. 4, st. 5.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "In Memoriam A.H.H." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009 pt. 4, st. 5.

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I would earnestly ask my sisters to keep clear of both the jargons now current everywhere... Of the jargon, namely about the "rights" of women, which urges women to do all that men do... Merely because men do it, and without regard to whether this is the best that women can do; and of the jargon which urges women to do nothing that men do, merely because they are women... Woman should bring the best she has, whatever that is... Without attending to either of these cries.

Florence Nightingale

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Nightingale, Florence. Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not. London: Harrison and Sons, 1859.

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Nightingale, Florence. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not. Dover Publications, 1969.

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Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and oppression of the white man, as snow before the summer sun.

Tecumseh

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

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Tecumseh. 1799. Tribal councils with White Men. Urbana, Ohio, USA.

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Tecumseh. Quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, written by Dee Brown. Picador, 2007, ch. 1.

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I know it when I see it.

Potter Stewart

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Jacobellis v. Ohio

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On the nature of "obscenity".

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Stewart, Potter. United States, Supreme Court. Jacobellis v. Ohio. United States Reports, vol. 378, 22 June 1964, pp. 184-204. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/378/184/.

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There's something about this that's so black, it's like how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black.

This is Spinal Tap

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This is Spinal Tap. Directed by Rob Reiner, Spinal Tap Prod., 1984.

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The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to slave and suffer in dumb anguish, to be stripped of spirit, and hope, and faith—only because they are of another race, another creed. If there is a god, he did not mean this to be so.

Moses

The Ten Commandments

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The Ten Commandments. Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Cecil B. DeMille Productions, 1956.

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Children's Happiness." A Treatise on Parents and Children. Binker North, 1910.

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Who knows when some slight shock, disturbing the delicate balance between social order and thirsty aspiration, shall send the skyscrapers in our cities toppling?

Richard Wright

Native Son

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Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940, bk. 3.

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Though it be a thrilling and marvelous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so, doubly dynamic-to be young, gifted and black.

Lorraine Hansberry

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Hansberry, Lorraine. "The Nation Needs Your Gifts." Reader's Digest/United Negro College Fund creative writing contest winners meeting. 1 May 1964, New York City, NY, USA.

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The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

Sir Thomas Browne

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk." Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk Together with the Garden of Cyrus. London: Henry Brome, 1658, ch. 5.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Hydriotaphia or Urne Buriall (1658)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, ch. 5.

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I entered the world a slave-in the midst of a country whose most honoured writings declare that all men have a right to liberty.

Henry Box Brown

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Brown, Henry Box. Narrative of Henry Box Brown. Boston: Brown & Stearns, 1849.

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Brown, Henry Box. Narrative of the Live of Henry Box Brown. Dover Publications, 2015.

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Better build schoolrooms for "the boy",
Than cells and gibbets for "the man".

Eliza Cook

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Cook, Eliza. A Song for the Ragged Schools. c. 1853.

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Teach me to feel another's wo,
To hide the fault I see:
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.

Alexander Pope

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Pope, Alexander. "The Universal Prayer." London: R. Dodsley, 1738, I. 37-40.

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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Bertrand Russell

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Russell, Bertrand. "Dreams and Facts." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

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In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape.

Pico Iyer

The Art of Stillness

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Iyer, Pico. The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere. Simon & Schuster/TED Books, 2014, ch. 5. Originally a TED Talk, 2013.

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Marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Virginibus Puerisque." The Cornhill Magazine, vol. 34, 1876, p. 176.

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If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution- it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.

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Hamilton, Alexander. Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bank. 23 Feb. 1791.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National, February 23, 1791." Alexander Hamilton: Writings, edited by Joanne B. Freeman. Library of America, 2001.

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This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 2, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 2.

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