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The notorious tendency of conservative apologists and New Age paperback writers alike is to leap from mere possibility to the right to… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
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Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him ; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means… — Mary Everest Boole Copy Share Image
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I want to say, however, one thing our media in America has done which didn't happen in other totalitarian states is it… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
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The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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Pain, I came to feel, might well prove to be the sole proof of the persistence of consciousness within the flesh, the… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
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The whole struggle of our Party (and of the working class movement in Europe generally) must be directed against opportunism. The latter… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
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I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
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A hastily written "Civil Rights Act" was rushed through Congress. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed it, noting that the right to confer… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
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Aristotle especially, both by speculation and observation... reached something like the modern idea of a succession of higher organizations from lower, and… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
[The proposed establishment] will have a . . . tendency to banish our Citizens. . . . To superadd a fresh motive… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and… — James Otis Copy Share Image
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