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There's nothing so dangerous as sitting still. You've only got one life, one youth, and you can let it slip through your fingers if you want to; nothing easier. Most people do that.

Willa Cather

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Cather, Willa. "The Bohemian Girl." McClure's Magazine, Aug. 1912.

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Cather, Willa. "The Bohemian Girl." The Bohemian Girl: Stories. Harper Perennial, 2009.

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A general association of nations must be formed... For the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.

Woodrow Wilson

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Wilson, Woodrow. "The Fourteen Points." Congress meeting. 8 Jan. 1918, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA. Address.

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Wilson, Woodrow. "The Fourteen Points." Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-President, edited by Mario R. DiNunzio. NYU Press, 2006.

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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

G.K. Chesterton

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Chesterton, G.K. "What's Wrong with the World." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 4, Ignatius Press, 1987, pt. 1. Originally published by Cassell, 1910, pt. 1.

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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement—but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes

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Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Harper & Brothers/Methuen Publishing, 1911, pt. 2, ch. 3.

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Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Dover Publications, 2003, pt. 2, ch. 3.

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Of all means to regeneration Remorse is surely the most wasteful. It cuts away healthy tissues with the poisoned. It is a knife that probes far deeper than the evil.

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)

Howards End

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Forster, E.M. Howards End. Edward Arnold, 1910, ch. 41.

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Beauty for some provides escape,
Who gain a happiness in eyeing
The gorgeous buttocks of the ape
Or autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Aldous Huxley

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Huxley, Aldous. "Sententious Song." Jonah. Holywell Press, 1917.

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Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Jung

The Psychology of the Unconscious

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Jung, Carl. Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido [The Psychology of the Unconscious]. F. Deuticke, 1912.

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Jung, Carl. "On the Psychology of the Unconscious." The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, translated by R. F. C. Hull. Vol. 7, Princeton University Press, 1972, pt. 4.

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When a just cause reaches its flood-tide... Whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.

Carrie Chapman Catt

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Catt, Carrie Chapman. "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" Sixth Convention of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. 13 June 1911, Stockholm, Sweden.

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I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.

Hermann Hesse

Demian

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again.

Hermann Hesse

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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The power of the press is very great, but not so great as the power of suppress.

Alfred Harmsworth

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Harmsworth, Alfred. Daily Mail. c. 1918.

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Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subject only in outline, but that every word tell.

William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White.

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Strunk, William, Jr. The Elements of Style. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1920, ch. 2, sec. 13.

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Strunk, William, Jr. and E. B. White. The Elements of Style. Penguin Books, 2007, ch. 2, sec. 13.

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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

George Moore

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Moore, George. The Brook Kerith: A Syrian Story. The Macmillan Company, 1916, ch. 11.

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Among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

G.K. Chesterton

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Chesterton, G.K. "A Miscellany of Men." The Wit, Whimsy and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 6, Coachwhip Publications, 2009. Originally published by Methuen, 1912 .

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Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.

Hermann Hesse

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Hesse, Herman. Getrud [Gertrude]. Albert Langen, 1910.

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Hesse, Herman. Gertrude, translated by Hilda Rosner. Picador, 2005.

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I gave my life for freedom-This I know:
For those who bade me fight had told me so.

William Norman Ewer

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Ewer, William Norman. "Five Souls." British Nation, 3 Oct. 1914, I. 5.

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Love must not entreat... Or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

Hermann Hesse

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

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West, Rebecca. "Mr. Chesterton in Hysterics." The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17. Indiana University Press, 1989. Originally published in The Clarion, 14 Nov. 1913.

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Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

John Burroughs

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Burroughs, John. "The Gospel of Nature." Time and Change. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912.

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But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas—that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate, is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Abrams v. United States

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Abrams v. United States. United States Report, vol. 250, 10 Nov. 1919, pp. 616-631. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/250/616/.

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