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But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed,
Or like the snow falls in the river,
A moment white - then melts for ever.

Robert Burns

Tam o' Shanter

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Burns, Robert. "Tam O'Shanter." Edinburgh Herald/Edinburgh Magazine, Mar. 1791.

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Burns, Robert. "Tam O'Shanter." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited by Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994.

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Making the decision to have a child-it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Elizabeth Stone

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Stone, Elizabeth. Quoted in "No Kids." Written by Ellen Cantarow. The Village Voice, c. 1985.

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Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.

Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great

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Hitchens, Christopher. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Twelve/Hachette Book Group, 2007, ch. 5.

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Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

The Uses of Sorrow

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Oliver, Mary. “The Uses of Sorrow.” Thirst. Beacon Press, 2006, I. 1.

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Some folks are born made to wave the flag,
Ooh, that red, white, and blue.
And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief,"
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord,
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no senator's son, no.
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one.

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Fortunate Son

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Fogerty, John. "Fortunate Son." Performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Willy and the Poor Boys. Fantasy Records, 1969.

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The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

J.B.S. Haldane

Reflection on the fact that there are 400,000 species of beetles, as opposed to 8,000 species of mammals.

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Haldane, J. B. S. Speech given to the British Interplanetary Society. 1951, London, England, UK.

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A bird does not sing
because he has an answer.
He sings
because he has a song.

Joan Walsh Anglund

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Anglund, Joan Walsh. A Cup of Sun: A Book of Poems. Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1967.

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I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.

William Lloyd Garrison

To the Public

On American slavery.

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Garrison, William Lloyd. "To the Public." The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831.

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We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, this hardness; but we aren't like that really. I mean... One can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold... Do you see what I mean?

John le Carré

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

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Carré, John le. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Victor Gollancz & Pan, 1963, ch. 2.

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Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.

Ernest Shackleton

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Shackleton, Ernest. Diary entry. 11 Dec. 1908.

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Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima... The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

Harry Truman

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Truman, Harry S. First announcement of the atomic bomb. 6 Aug. 1945, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

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Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war let it begin here!

John Parker

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Parker, John. To his Minute Men at Lexington, Massachusetts. Battle of Lexington. 19 Apr. 1775, Lexington Green, Lexington, MA, USA.

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In other words, the First Amendment has a penumbra where privacy is protected from governmental intrusion.

William O. Douglas

Grisworld v. Connecticut

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Douglas, William O. United States, Supreme Court. Griswold v. Connecticut. United States Reports, vol. 381, 7 June 1965, pp. 479–531. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/381/479/.

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If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker and you were walking down the sidewalk with him and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable.

Mitch Hedberg

Strategic Grill Locations

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Hedberg, Mitch. Strategic Grill Locations. 7 Sept. 1999, The Laff Stop Comedy Club, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

Stephen Decatur

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Decatur, Stephen. Toast given at a dinner in Virginia. Apr. 1816, Norfolk, VA, USA.

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If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

Woody Allen

Love and Death

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Love and Death. Directed by Woody Allen, Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions, 1975.

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The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty, unsexy ways, every day.

David Foster Wallace

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Wallace, David Foster. Commencement address at Kenyon College. Commencement. 21 May 2005, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, USA.

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Wallace, David Foster. This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion about Living a Compassionate Life. Little, Brown and Company, 2009.

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Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one.

Walter Savage Landor

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Landor, Walter Savage. "Chesterfield and Chatham." Imaginary Conversations. c. 1825.

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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Aldous Huxley

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Huxley, Aldous. "A Case of Voluntary Ignorance." Collected Essays. Harper & Brothers, 1959. Originally published Esquire, 1 Oct. 1956.

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Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.

Robert Frost

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Frost, Robert. "The Death of the Hired Man." North of Boston. David Nutt, 1914.

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Frost, Robert. "The Death of the Hired Man." Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays, edited by Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson. Library of America, 1995.

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