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Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

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Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 1.

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Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 1.

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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

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Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 3.

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Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 3.

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

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Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 2.

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Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 5.

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We cannot reform our forefathers.

George Eliot

Adam Bede

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Eliot, George. Adam Bede. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1859, ch. 53.

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Eliot, George. Adam Bede, edited by Carol A. Martin. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 53.

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I think I could turn and live ahile with te animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd,
I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied...not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.

Walt Whitman

Song of Myself

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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.

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Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 32.

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By avarice and selfishness, and a grovelling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property...the landscape is deformed.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "The Bean-Field." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "The Bean-Field." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.

Charles Darwin

On the Origin of Species

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Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. London: John Murray, 1859, ch. 14.

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Darwin, Charles. The Origin of the Species, edited by William Bynum. Penguin, 2009, ch. 14.

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We can never have enough of nature…. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Spring." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Spring." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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Do get all on fire and be as cross as you please.

Susan B. Anthony

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Anthony, Susan B. Letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 5 June 1856.

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Thou art as a lion of the waters and as a dragon of the sea.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Quoting from Ezekiel 32:2.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 82.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 82.

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If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case.

Charles Darwin

On the Origin of Species

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Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. London: John Murray, 1859, ch. 6.

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Darwin, Charles. The Origin of the Species, edited by William Bynum. Penguin, 2009, ch. 6.

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He was like a cock, who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

George Eliot

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Eliot, George. Adam Bede. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1859, ch. 33.

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Eliot, George. Adam Bede, edited by Carol A. Martin. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 33.

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Every one who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

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Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 4.

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Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 4.

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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

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Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 5.

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Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 5.

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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.