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There ain't any answer, there ain't going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.

Gertrude Stein

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Stein, Gertrude. Brewsie and Willie. Random House, 1946, ch. 5.

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Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

Norman Maclean

A River Runs Through It

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Maclean, Norman. "A River Runs Through it." A River Runs Through It and Other Stories. University of Chicago Press, 1976.

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If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

Thurgood Marshall

Stanley v. Georgia

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Marshall, Thurgood. United States, Supreme Court. Stanley v. Georgia. United States Reports, vol. 394, 7 Apr. 1969, pp. 557-572. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/394/557/.

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Oh, what a beautiful mornin'
Oh, what a beautiful day.
I got a beautiful feelin'
Everything's going my way.

Rodgers and Hammerstein

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Hammerstein, Oscar, II. "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'." Oklahoma! Composed by Richard Rodgers. 1943, St. James Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.

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What did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?

Robert Hayden

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Hayden, Robert. "Those Winter Sundays." A Ballad of Remembrance. Paul Breman, 1962, I. 13.

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You got to know when to hold 'em,
Know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away,
and know when to run.

Kenny Rogers

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The Gambler

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Schlitz, Don. "The Gambler." Performed by Kenny Rogers. The Gambler. United Artists Group, 1978.

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If you could say it in words, there'd be no reason to paint.

Edward Hopper

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Hopper, Edward. "Art: The Silent Witness.” Time Magazine, 24 Dec. 1956.

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Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice.

George Jackson

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Jackson, George. Letter to Mother and Father. 2 May 1965.

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The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Coolidge, Calvin. "The Press Under a Free Government." American Society of Newspaper Editors meeting. 17 Jan. 1925, Washington, DC, USA.

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The groves were God's first temples.

William Cullen Bryant

A Forest Hymn

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Bryant, William Cullen. "A Forest Hymn." United States Literary Gazette, 1824, I. 1.

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Truthiness. Now I'm sure some of the word police-the wordinistas-over at Webster's are gonna say, "Hey, that's not a word." Well, anybody who knows me knows I'm no fan of dictionaries or reference books...I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart.

Stephen Colbert

The Colbert Report

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"Truthiness." The Colbert Report, created by Stephen Colbert, season 1, episode 1, Spartina Productions and Busboy Productions and Comedy Partners, 2005.

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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.

Jonathan Edwards

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

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Edwards, Jonathan. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." 8 July 1741, Edwards Church, Northampton, MA, USA. Sermon.

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Edwards, Jonathan. "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." Jonathan Edwards: Writings from the Great Awakening. Library of America, 2013.

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These lands are ours. No one has a right to remove us, because we were the first owners. The Great Spirit above has appointed this place for us, on which to light our fires, and here we will remain. As to boundaries, the Great Spirit knows no boundaries, nor will his red children acknowledge any.

Tecumseh

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Tecumseh. To Joseph Barron. c. 1810.

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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dust Tracks on a Road

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Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942, ch. 16.

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Every project has been found to be no better than committing the lamb to the custody of the wolf, except that one which is called a balance of power.

John Adams

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Adams, John. Letter to Roger Sherman. 17 July 1789.

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Adams, John. "Correspondence with Roger Sherman and John Taylor." The Portable John Adams. Penguin Classics, 2004.

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In order to gain and to hold the esteem of men it is not sufficient merely to possess wealth or power. The wealth or power must be put in evidence, for esteem is awarded only on evidence.

Thorstein Veblen

The Theory of the Leisure Class

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Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions. Macmillan, 1899, ch. 3.

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Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class, edited by Martha Banta. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 3.

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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. What treaty that the whites ever made with us red men have they kept? Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set in their lands. They sent 10,000 horsemen to battle. Where are the warriors to-day? Who slew them? Where are our lands ? Who owns them ? What white man can say I ever stole his lands or a penny of his money? Yet they say I am a thief. What white woman, however lonely, was ever when a captive insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian. What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and gone unfed ? Who has ever seen me beat my wives or abuse my children ? What law have I broken ? Is it wrong for me to love my own ? Is it wicked in me because my skin is red ; because I am a Sioux ; because I was born where my fathers lived ; because I would die for my people and my country ?

Sitting Bull

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Sitting Bull. Quoted in Life of Sitting Bull and History of the Indian War of 1890-'91, written by W. Fletcher Johnson. Edgewood Publishing Co., 1891.

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