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We are one people-our enemies have made us one whether we will or not, as has repeatedly happened in history. Affliction binds us together, and thus united, we suddenly discover our strength. Yes, we are strong enough to form a State, and, indeed, a model State.

Theodor Herzl

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The Jewish State

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Herzl, Theodore. Der Judenstaat [The Jewish State]. Leipzig: M. Breitenstein's Verlags-Buchhandlung, 1896.

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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Aldous Huxley

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Huxley, Aldous. "A Case of Voluntary Ignorance." Collected Essays. Harper & Brothers, 1959. Originally published Esquire, 1 Oct. 1956.

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The sea of faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd;
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

Matthew Arnold

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Arnold, Matthew. "Dover Beach." New Poems. London: Macmillan and Co., 1867, st. 3, 4.

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Arnold, Matthew. "Dover Beach." Dover Beach and Other Poems. Dover Publications, 2012, st. 3, 4.

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Theory of the true civilization.
It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning, It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

Charles Baudelaire

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Baudelaire, Charles. Mon Coeur mis a nu [My Naked Heart]. Paris, 1887, no. 58.

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Baudelaire, Charles. "My Heart Laid Bare." Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed, translated by Richard Sieburth. Yale University Press, 2022, no. 58.

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Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves suck back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Aegean.

Matthew Arnold

Dover Beach

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Arnold, Matthew. "Dover Beach." New Poems. London: Macmillan and Co., 1867, I. 9.

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Arnold, Matthew. "Dover Beach." Dover Beach and Other Poems. Dover Publications, 2012, I. 9.

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Love your solitude and bear with sweet-sounding lamentation the suffering it causes you.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Letters to a Young Poet

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Franz Kappus. 16 July 1903.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Charlie Louth. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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It is always the best policy to speak the truth—unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

Jerome K. Jerome

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Jerome, Jerome K. "The Idler's Club." The Idler. London: Chatto & Windus, Feb. 1892.

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In a burning building...I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.

Alberto Giacometti

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Lord, James. Giacometti: A Biography. Macmillan, 1997, ch. 44.

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I like to find
what's not found
at once, but lies
within something of another nature
in repose, distinct.

Denise Levertov

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Pleasures

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Levertov, Denise. "Pleasures." With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads. New Directions Publishing, 1959, I. 1.

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In the misfortune of our best friends we often find something that is not displeasing.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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The opening up of new markets, foreign or domestic, and the organizational development from the craft shop and factory to such concerns as U.S. Steel illustrate the same process of industrial mutation...That incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one. This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism.

Joseph Schumpeter

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

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Schumpeter, Joseph Alois. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. Harper & Brothers, 1942, pt. 2, ch. 7.

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Electric flesh-arrows...traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.

Anaïs Nin

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Nin, Anaïs. "October, 1937." The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 2, 1934–1939, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann. Harcourt Brace & World, Inc., 1967.

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Although we are mere sojourners on the surface of the planet, chained to a mere point in space, enduring but for a moment of time, the human mind is not only enabled to number worlds beyond the unassisted ken of mortal eye, but to trace the events of indefinite ages before the creation of our race, and is not even withheld from penetrating into the dark secrets of the ocean, or the interior of the solid globe.

Charles Lyell

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Principles of Geology

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Lyell, Charles, Sir. Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation. Vol. 1, London: John Murray, 1830.

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How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof!...In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make—leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents, or piled stone—we all dwell in a house of one room—the world with the firmament for its roof—and are sailing the celestial spaces without leaving any track.

John Muir

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Muir, John. Journal entry. 18 July 1890.

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I am much occupied with the investigation of physical causes. My aim in this is to show that the celestial machine is not similar to a divine animated being, but similar to a clock.

Johannes Kepler

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Kepler, Johannes. Letter to Herwart von Hohenbury. 10 Feb. 1605.

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I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

John Paul Jones

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Jones, John Paul. Letter to Le Ray de Chaumont. 16 Nov. 1778.

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The house of everyone is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose

Edward Coke

Semayne's Case

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Coke, Edward. Court of King's Bench. Peter Semayne v Richard Gresham. 5 Co Rep 91 a. Michaelmas Term, 1604.

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Over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths.

Thomas Cole

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Essay on American Scenery

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Cole, Thomas. "Essay on American Scenery." American Monthly Magazine, 1 Jan. 1836.

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The man of business…goes on Sunday to the church with the regularity of the village blacksmith, there to renounce and abjure before his God the line of conduct which he intends to pursue with all his might during the following week.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Economic." Fabian Essays in Socialism. The Fabian Society, 1889.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Economic." Political Writings. Oxford University Press, 2021.

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The Sultan asked for a Signet motto, that should hold good for Adversity or Prosperity. Solomon gave him, "This also shall pass away."

Edward FitzGerald

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Fitzgerald, Edward. Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances. London: William Pickering, 1852.

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