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"Thou shalt not" might reach the head, but it takes "Once upon a time" to reach the heart.

Philip Pullman

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Pullman, Philip. "Opinion: The moral's in the story, not the stern lecture." The Independent, 17 July 1996.

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There are reverent minds who ceaselessly scan the fields of Nature and the books of Science in search for gaps-gaps which they will fill up with God. As if God lived in gaps?

Henry Drummond

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Drummond, Henry. The Ascent of Man. New York City: James Pott & Co., 1894, ch. 10.

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That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradises seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.

Aldous Huxley

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Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. Chatto & Windus/Harper & Row, 1954.

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Summer time and the livin' is easy,
Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high.
Oh, yo' daddy's rich and yo' ma' is good-lookin',
So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.

Ira Gershwin

Summertime

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Gershwin, Ira and DuBose Heyward. "Summertime." Porgy and Bess. Composed by George Gershwin. 1935, Colonial Theatre, Boston, MA, USA.

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Let me tell you something kid. Everybody gets one chance to do something great. Most people never take the chance, either cause they're too scared, or they don't recognize it when it spits on their shoes. This is your big chance and you shouldn't let it go by.

The Sandlot

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The Sandlot. Directed by David Mickey Evans, Island World, 1993.

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The government ought not to use evidence obtained and only obtainable, by a criminal act...for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals could escape than that, the Government should play an ignoble part.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Olmstead v. United States

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Olmstead v. United States. United States Reports, vol. 277, 4 June 1928, pp. 438-485. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/277/438/.

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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.

G.M. Trevelyan

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Trevelyan, George Macaulay. English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria. Longmans, Green and Company, 1942, introduction.

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Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,
If I lacked any thing.

George Herbert

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Herbert, George. "Love (III)." The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 1633, I. 1.

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Herbert, George. "Love (3)." The Temple. Penguin Classics, 2018, I. 1.

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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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I could never divide my selfe from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with mee in that, from which perhaps within a few dayes I should dissent my selfe.

Sir Thomas Browne

Religio Medici

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. Religio Medici. London, 1643, pt. 1, sect. 6.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Religio Medici (1643)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 1, sect. 6.

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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

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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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I have come to the borders of sleep,
The unfathomable deep
Forest where all must lose
Their way.

Edward Thomas

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Thomas, Edward. "Lights Out." Poems. Henry Holt, 1917, I. 1.

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Thomas, Edward. "Lights Out." Selected Poems of Edward Thomas. Faber & Faber, 2011, I. 1.

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I know you're taking it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall, he always gets bloody. Always. This is threatening not just a way of doing business, but in their minds, it's threatening the game. Really what it's threatening is their livelihoods, it's threatening their jobs. It's threatening the way that they do things. And every time that happens, whether it's the government, or a way of doing business, or whatever it is, the people who are holding the reins—they have their hands on the switch—they go batshit crazy.

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Moneyball. Directed by Bennett Miller, Columbia Pictures/Scott Ruding Productions/Michael De Luca Productions/Rachael Horovitz Productions/Plan B Entertainment, 2011.

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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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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttle-fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him till he becomes invisible.

Joseph Addison

The Spectator

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Addison, Joseph. The Spectator. London, 5 Sept. 1712, no. 476.

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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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When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad,
And every lass a queen;
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away:
Young blood must have its course, lad,
And every dog his day.

Charles Kingsley

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Kingsley, Charles. "The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby." Macmillan's Magazine, 1862-1863.

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Kingsley, Charles. The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby, edited by Richard D. Beards. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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