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We are the tools are vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

John Swinton

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Swinton, John. Quoted in Chicago Labor Enquirer. 12 May 1888.

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It will need more than the Nineteenth Amendment to convince me that there are no differences between men and women, or that legislation cannot take those differences into account.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Adkins v. Children's Hospital

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Dissenting Opinion. Adkins v. Children's Hospital. United States Reports, vol. 261, 9 Apr. 1923, pp. 567-571. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/250/616/.

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I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

Robert Mueller

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Mueller, Robert. Quoted in Look Magazine. 5 Mar. 1957.

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He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.

James Joyce

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Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners. Grant Richards, 1914.

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Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners: Centennial Edition, edited by Terence Brown. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor.

H.L. Mencken

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Mencken, H. L. "Editorial." American Mercury, July 1928.

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A differentiation arises between ourselves, the we-group, or in-group, and everybody else, or the others-groups, out-groups.

William Graham Sumner

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Sumner, William Graham. Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals. Ginn & Company, 1906, ch. 1.

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Patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

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Nathan, George Jean. Testament of a Critic. A. A. Knopf, 1931, bk. 1.

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If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for a factory worker, and you can move your factory south of the border, pay $1 an hour for labor... Have no environmental controls, no pollution controls, and no retirement. And you don't care about anything but making money. There will be a giant sucking sound going south.

Ross Perot

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On trade agreements between the U.S. and other countries.

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Perot, Ross. Spoken at a presidential debate. Presidential debate. 15 Oct. 1992, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA.

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It is not the prize that can make us happy; it is not even the winning of the prize....[It is] the struggle, the long hot hour of the honest fight.... There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Anthony Trollope

Orley Farm

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Trollope, Anthony. Orley Farm. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861-1862.

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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

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Hampton, Christopher. Quoted in Sunday Times Magazine. 16 Oct. 1977.

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This universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.

John H. Holmes

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The Sensible Man's View of Religion

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Holmes, John H. The Sensible Man's View of Religion. Harper & Brothers, 1932, ch. 4.

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Hamlet is a name: His speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. What then, are they not real? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet.

William Hazlitt

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Hazlitt, William. "Hamlet." Characters of Shakespear's Plays. London: Rowland Hunter and Charles Ollier and James Ollier, 1817.

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Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written, or spoken laws; it is He, who is truly the Law-giver to all intents and purposes, and not the Person who first wrote, or spoke them.

Benjamin Hoadly

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Hoadly, Benjamin. "The Nature of the Kingdom, or Church, of Christ." 31 Mar. 1717, The Royal Chapel at St. James's, London, England, UK. Sermon.

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I can't prove you are a Communist. But when I see a bird that quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, has feathers and webbed feet and associates with ducks-I'm certainly going to assume that he is a duck.

Emil Mazey

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Mazey, Emil. Spoken at labor meeting of the United Automobile Workers. Labor meeting. 1946, Detroit, MI, USA.

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The conception of political equality from the Declaration of Independence, to Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, to the Fifteenth, Seventeenth, and Nineteenth Amendments can mean only one thing—one person, one vote.

William O. Douglas

Gray v. Sanders

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Douglas, William O. United States, Supreme Court. Gray v. Sanders. United States Reports, vol. 372, 17 June 1963, pp. 368-372. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/372/368/.

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