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To protect the workers in their inalienable rights to a higher and better life; to protect them, not only as equals before the law, but also in their health, their homes, their firesides, their liberties as men, as workers, and as citizens; to overcome and conquer prejudice and antagonism; to secure to them the right to life, and the opportunity to maintain that life; the right to be full sharers in the abundance which is the result of their brain and brawn, and the civilization of which they are the founders and the mainstay... The attainment of these is the glorious mission of the trade unions.

Samuel Gompers

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Gompers, Samuel. "Trade Unions - Their Philosophy." Jan. 1898, USA. Speech.

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Gompers, Samuel. Quoted in The State and the Unions, written by Christopher Tomlins. Cambridge University Press, 1985, ch. 3.

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Would it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the comencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament which the Great First Cause endured with animality... And thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end!

Erasmus Darwin

Zoonomia

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Darwin, Erasmus. Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life. Vol. 1, London: Joseph Johnson, 1794, sec. 39.

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The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.

John Philpot Curran

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Curran, John Philpot. Speech on the right of election of the Lord Mayor of Dublin. 10 July 1790, Dublin, Ireland.

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To name an object is to take away three-fourths of the pleasure given by a poem. This pleasure consists in guessing little by little to suggest it, that is the ideal.

Jules Huret

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Mallarme, Stephane. Quoted in "Sur l'Evolution Litteraire [On Literary Evolution]." Enquete de Huret [Investigation by Jules Huret]. Bibliotheque-Charpentier, 1891.

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Laissez faire does not mean: Let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: Let each individual choose how he wants to cooperate in the social division of labor; let the consumers determine what the entrepreneurs should produce. Planning means: Let the government alone choose and enforce its rulings by the apparatus of coercion and compulsion.

Ludwig von Mises

Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

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Von Mises, Ludwig. Human Action: A Treatise on Economics. Yale University Press, 1949, ch. 27.

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We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.

Pope Benedict XVI

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Cardinal Ratzinger, Joseph (later Pope Benedict XVI). "Homily of His Eminence Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger." Conclave of cardinals, Mass. 18 Apr. 2005, St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, Rome, Italy.

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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Man and Superman." Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, "epistle dedicatory." Originally published by Archibald and Constable & Co., Ltd, 1903.

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The real or supposed necessity of treating the Negroes with rigor gradually brings a numbness upon the heart and renders most of those who are engaged in it too indifferent to the sufferings of their fellow creatures.

John Newton

Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade

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Newton, John. "Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade." Letters and Sermons. c. 1780.

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Soon shall thy arm, unconquere'd steam! afar
Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear
The flying-chariot through the fields of air.

Erasmus Darwin

The Botanic Garden

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Darwin, Erasmus. The Botanic Garden. London: Joseph Johnson, 1791, pt. 1.

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If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.

Rupert Brooke

The Soldier

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Brooke, Rupert. "The Soldier." 1914 and Other Poems. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915, I. 1.

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Brooke, Rupert. "The Soldier." The Poems of Rupert Brooke. Dover Publications, 2020, I. 1.

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I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

John Masefield

Sea-Fever

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Masefield, John. "Sea-Fever." Salt-Water Ballads. London: Grant Richards, 1902, I. 1.

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Masefield, John. "Sea-Fever." Sea Fever: Selected Poems of John Masefield, edited by Philip W. Errington. Carcanet Press, 2005, I. 1.

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Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

Konrad Lorenz

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Lorenz, Konrad. Quoted in New York Times Magazine. 11 Apr. 1965.

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If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

Jacques Barzun

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The House of Intellect

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Barzun, Jacques. The House of Intellect. Harper & Brothers, 1959, ch. 6.

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How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea... All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba the Greek

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Kazantzakis, Nikos. Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Life and State of Alexis Zorba]. Athens: Dimitrakou, 1946, ch. 7.

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Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek, translated by Peter Bien. Simon & Schuster, 2014, ch. 7.

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Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have no winced nor cried aloud;
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

William Ernest Henley

Invictus

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Henley, William Ernest. Book of Verses. London: David Nutt, 1888.

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Henley, William Ernest. "Invictus." A Selection of Poems. White Press, 2015, st. 1.

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But, as the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from the womb and the long gestation of progressive history, so the American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

William E. Gladstone

Kin Beyond Sea

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Gladstone, William E. "Kin Beyond Sea." North American Review, Sept. 1878 - Oct. 1878.

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Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is stuck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

William Hazlitt

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Hazlitt, William. "On Wit and Humour." Lectures on the English Comic Writers. c. 1818, Surrey Institution, London, England, UK.

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Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern-why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

William Hazlitt

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Hazlitt, William. "On the Fear of Death." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 2, London: H. Colburn.

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Hazlitt, William. "On the Fear of Death." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt, edited by Duncan Wu. Vol. 6, Routledge, 2020.

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The only freedom the gods grant us
Is this: to submit
Of our own free will to their sovereignty
We should do just that,
Since only in the illusion of freedom
Does freedom exist.

Fernando Pessoa

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Pessoa, Fernando (published as Ricardo Reis). "So esta liberdade nos concedem [The only freedom the gods grant us]." Odes. Edições Ática, 1952.

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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.