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Dick, Phillip. "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later." 1978, Disneyland, Anaheim, CA, USA. Speech.

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Garrison, William Lloyd. Resolution passed by the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society meeting. 27 Jan. 1843, Boston, MA, USA.

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Dawkins, Richard. "Snake Oil and Holy Water." Forbes ASAP, 4 Oct. 1999.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

John Roberts

Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1

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Roberts, John. United States, Supreme Court. Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1. United States Reports, vol. 551, 28 June 2007, pp. 701-876, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/551/701/.

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Blazing Saddles. Directed by Mel Brooks, Crossbow Productions, 1974.

Business is war. It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat. If my competitor were drowning, I'd walk over and I'd put a hose right in his mouth.

Ray Kroc

Founder

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Founder. Directed by John Lee Hancock, FilmNation Entertainment/The Combine/Faliro House Productions S. A., 2016.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

Stewart Brand

How Buildings Learn

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Brand, Stewart. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built. Viking Press, 1994, ch. 3.

The end must justify the means.

Matthew Prior

Hans Carvel

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Prior, Matthew. Hans Carvel. c. 1700.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843, bk. 1, ch. 3.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present, edited by David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. Oxford University Press, 2023, bk. 1, ch. 3.

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Herbert, George. Jacula Prudentum, or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Microform. London: T. Garthwait, 1651.

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James, William. The Principles of Psychology. Vol. 1, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890, ch. 4.

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@realDonaldTrump. "North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!" Twitter, 2 Jan. 2018, 7:49 p.m., https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/948355557022420992.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Herbert Marcuse

One-Dimensional Man

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Marcuse, Herbert. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Beacon Press, 1964, ch. 1.

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Williams, Hank. Ramblin' Man. MGM Records, 1951.

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Black, Hugo. United States, Supreme Court. New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. United States Reports, vol. 376, 9 Mar. 1964, pp. 254-305. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/376/254/.

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Tecumseh. Speech to General William Henry Harrison. 14 Aug. 1810, Council at Vincennes, Indiana Territory, USA.

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Tecumseh. Quoted in A History of the Indians of the United States, written by Angie Debo. University of Oklahoma Press, 2013.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

Proper Studies

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Huxley, Aldous. "A Note on Dogma." Proper Studies. Chatto & Windus, 1927.

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Feynman, Richard. "The Value of Science." 1955, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, USA.

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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 6, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1789, ch. 52.

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Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 6. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 52.

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Campaign address. Democractic State Convention. 29 Sept. 1936, Syracuse, NY, USA.