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Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

Gerald M. Edelman

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Edelman, Sam and Giulio Tononi. A Universe of Consciousness: How Matter Becomes Imagination. Basic Books, 2000.

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The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Edward VIII

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Edward VIII. "Edward VIII, Afterwards Duke of Windsor." Look Magazine, 5 Mar. 1957.

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Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

G.K. Chesterton

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Chesterton, G.K. "The Defendant." The Wit, Whimsy and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 6, Coachwhip Publications, 2009, introduction. Originally published by R. Brinley Johnson, 1901.

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I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found.

Thomas Wolfe

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Wolfe, Thomas. You Can't Go Home Again. Harper & Row, 1940, ch. 48.

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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Laurens van der Post

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Post, Laurens van der. The Lost World of the Kalahari. William Morrow, 1958, ch. 3.

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Christ of his gentleness
Thirsting and hungering,
Walked in the wilderness;
Soft words of grace He spoke
Unto lost desert-folk
That listened wondering.

Robert Graves

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Graves, Robert. "In the Wilderness." Over the Brazier. c. 1916.

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Graves, Robert. "In the Wilderness." The Complete Poems: In One Volume. Penguin Books, 2003, l. 1-6.

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You risk your skin catchin' killers and the juries turn 'em loose so they can come back and shoot at ya again. If you're honest, you're poor your whole life, and in the end you wind up dyin' all alone on some dirty street. For what? For nothin'. For a tin star.

High Noon

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High Noon. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Stanley Kramer Productions, 1952.

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To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.

The Book of Common Prayer

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The Book of Common Prayer (American). Episcopal Church, 1928.

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In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Man and Superman." Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, act 3. Originally published by Archibald and Constable & Co., Ltd, 1903.

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The consumer isn't a moron; she is your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything.

David Ogilvy

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Ogilvy, David. Confessions of an Advertising Man. Atheneum, 1963, ch. 5.

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This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer to that would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No." Therein lies the difficulty.

Aaron Copland

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What to Listen for in Music

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Copland, Aaron. What to Listen for in Music. McGraw-Hill, 1939, ch. 2.

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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

William Ralph Inge

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Inge, William Ralph. The End of an Age and Other Essays. Putnam, 1948, ch. 6.

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I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable, established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

William Tyler Page

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Page, William Tyler. "The American's Creed." House of Representatives meeting. 3 Apr. 1918, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA. Originally, a submission to a nationwide patriotic contest. c. 1917.

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Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end.

Douglas Haig

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Haig, Douglas. "Special Order of the Day." 11 Apr. 1918, Great Britain, UK.

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The weakness of American civilization, and perhaps the chief reason why it creates so much discontent, is that it is so curiously abstract. It is a bloodless extrapolation of a satisfying life... You dine off the advertiser's "sizzling" and not the meat of the steak.

J.B. Priestley

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Priestley, J. B. New Statesman. 10 Dec. 1971.

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Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast. But in the morning Lust is always furtive.

Henry Fairlie

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Fairlie, Henry. "Lust or Luxuria." The Seven Deadly Sins Today. New Republic Books, 1978.

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The people will live on.
The learning and blundering people will live on.
They will be tricked and sold and again sold
And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.

Carl Sandburg

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Sandburg, Carl. The People, Yes. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1936, no. 107.

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What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-blind or not-a good world to live in, a promising universe.... We once thought we lived on God's footstool; it may be a throne.

Clarence S. Day

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This Simian World

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Day, Clarence. This Simian World. Alfred A. Knopf, 1920, ch. 19.

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As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Christopher Dawson

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Dawson, Christopher. The Judgment of the Nations. Sheed & Ward, 1942, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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I think all men recognize that in time of war the citizen must surrender some rights for the common good which he is entitled to enjoy in time of peace. But, sir, the right to control their own government according to constitutional forms is not one of the rights that the citizens of this country are called upon to surrender in time of war.

Robert M. La Follette Sr.

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La Follette, Robert M, Sr. Quoted in The Senate, 1789-1989, written by Robert C. Byrd. U.S. Senate Historical Office, 1988. Originally an address called "Free Speech in Wartime." Senate meeting. 6 Oct. 1917, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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