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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Francis Bacon

Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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Bacon, Francis. "Of Revenge." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Revenge." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Charles Baudelaire

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Baudelaire, Charles. "Qu'est-ce que le romantisme?" Salon de 1846. 1846.

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Baudelaire, Charles. "Salon of 1846." Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Literature, translated by P. E. Charvet. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Bertrand Russell

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Russell, Bertrand. "On the Value of Skepticism." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

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Metaphysicians and politicians may dispute forever, but they will never find any other moral principle or foundation of rule or obedience, than the consent of governors and governed.

John Adams

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Adams, John, [published as Novanglus]. "To the Inhabitants of the Colony of Massachusetts-Bay." Boston Gazette, 6 Mar. 1775.

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Adams, John. "Novanglus No. VII, March 6, 1775." John Adams: Revolutionary Writings 1755-1775, edited by Gordon S. Wood. Library of America, 2011.

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What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing—the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others.

John Stuart Mill

The Subjection of Women

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Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 1.

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

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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.

John Maynard Keynes

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Keynes, John Maynard. The End of Laissez-Faire. Hogarth Press, 1926, ch. 1.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "The End of Laissaz-faire." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016, ch. 1.

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Education makes us what we are.

Claude Adrien Helvétius

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Helvétius, Claude-Adrien. De l'esprit [On the Mind]. Paris: Durand, 1758, essay 3, ch. 30.

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The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

W.H. Auden

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Auden, W. H. "The Protestant Mystics." Forewords and Afterwords. Random House/Faber and Faber, 1973.

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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Carl Sagan

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Sagan, Carl. "Four Cosmic Questions." Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium. Random House, 1997, ch. 5.

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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals... The love of money as a possession—as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life—will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.

John Maynard Keynes

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Keynes, John Maynard. "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren." The Nation and Athenaeum, 11 and 18 Oct. 1930.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren (1930)." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016.

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Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

William Hazlitt

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Hazlitt, William. Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims. London, 1823, no. 305.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Francis Bacon

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Bacon, Francis "Of Travel." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Travel." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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We never reach a point at which our lives lie before us as a clearly marked open road, never have and never should expect a map to the years ahead, never do close those circles that seem, at thirteen and fourteen and nineteen, so urgently in need of closing.

Joan Didion

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Didion, Joan. "Pacific Distances." After Henry. Simon & Schuster, 1992.

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Didion, Joan. "Pacific Distances." Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s, edited by David L. Ulin. Library of America, 2021.

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It's no disgrace t'be poor, but it might as well be.

Frank McKinney Hubbard

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Hubbard, Kin. "Short Furrows." News, c. 1911.

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Mathematics takes us still further from what is human, into the region of absolute necessity, to which only the actual world, but every possible world, must conform.

Bertrand Russell

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Russell, Bertrand. "The Study of Mathematics." The New Quarterly, Nov. 1907.

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Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan-that is the rule.

John Fowles

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Fowles, John. "Notes on an Unfinished Novel." The Novel Today: Contemporary Writers on Modern Fiction, edited by Malcolm Bradbury. Manchester University Press, 1977.

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The whole human memory can be, and probably in a short time will be, made accessible to every individual.

H.G. Wells

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Wells, H. G. "The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia." Harper's Magazine, Apr. 1937.

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That Calvinistic sense of Innate Depravity and Original Sin, from whose visitations, in some shape or other, no deeply thinking mind is always and wholly free.

Herman Melville

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Melville, Herman. "Hawthorne and His Mosses." The Literary World. New York: Osgood and Company, 1850.

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Melville, Herman. "Hawthorne and His Mosses." Tales, Poems, and Other Writings. Modern Library, 2002.

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If we simply accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything... That smacks of discrimination or slander.

Mary McLeod Bethune

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Bethune, Mary McLeod. "Certain Unalienable Rights." What the Negro Wants, edited by Rayford Logan. University of North Carolina Press, 1944.

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There is probably no sensitive heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied at one time or another with his latent homosexuality.

Norman Mailer

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Mailer, Norman. "The Homosexual Villain." Advertisements for Myself. Harvard University Press, 1959. Originally published in One Magazine, Jan. 1955.

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