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  • Ezra Pound We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • George Orwell We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Booker T. Washington We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
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    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • William James We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Maya Angelou We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Robin George Collingwood What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
    Robin George Collingwood
    English philosopher, historian and archaeologist (1889 - 1943)
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  • Joseph Addison What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Adam Smith What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • William Shakespeare What fates impose, that men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Louis L. Mann What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
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  • Jean Genet What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Abraham Lincoln What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Ursula K. LeGuin What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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  • Confucius What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Charlotte Whitton Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
    Charlotte Whitton
    Canadian feminist and mayor (1896 - 1975)
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