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The idea of knowing exactly where you're going is overrated.

Sarah Sze

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Sze, Sarah. "A Million Little Pieces." Interviewed by Andrea K. Scott. The New Yorker, 7 May 2012.

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Not many sounds in life... Exceed in interest a knock at the door.

Charles Lamb

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Lamb, Charles. "Valentine's Day." The Examiner, c. 1819.

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The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Hallam." Edinburgh Review, Sept. 1828.

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Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure?

David Foster Wallace

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Wallace, David Foster. "Consider the Lobster." Gourmet, Aug. 2004.

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Wallace, David Foster. "Consider the Lobster." Consider the Lobster and Other Essays. Back Bay Books, 2007.

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What the deuce is it to me? You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.

Sherlock Holmes

A Study in Scarlet

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1887.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012.

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Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke; that's their natural and first weapon.

Gloria Steinem

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Steinem, Gloria. "Siserhood." New York, 20 Dec. 1971

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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

Hannah Arendt

The New Yorker

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Arendt, Hannah. "Civil Disobedience." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972. Originally published as "Reflections on Civil Disobedience" by The New Yorker, 12 Sept. 1970.

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I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.

Sherlock Holmes

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1887.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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All art is biographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Federico Fellini

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Fellini, Federico. Quoted in The Atlantic, Dec. 1965.

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For the sublime and the beautiful and interesting, you don't have to look far away.

Hedda Sterne

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Sterne, Hedda. "Hedda Sterne." Interviewed by Joan Simon. Art in America, Feb. 2007, www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/magazine/hedda-sterne

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Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.

Steve Bannon

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Bannon, Steve. "Ringside With Steve Bannon at Trump Tower as the President-Elect’s Strategist Plots 'An Entirely New Political Movement'." Interviewed by Michael Wolff. Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2016.

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A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified.

Leon Trotsky

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Trotsky, Leon. "Their Morals and Ours." The New International, June 1938.

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The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.

Bertrand Russell

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Russell, Bertrand. "In Praise of Idleness." In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays. George Allen & Unwin, 1935. Originally published in Harper's Magazine, Oct. 1932.

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The two luckiest things that can happen to a contemporary painter are, first, to be Spanish and, second, to be named Salvador Dali. Both have happened to me.

Salvador Dalí

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Dali, Salvador. "Dali." Interviewed by Winthrop Sargeant. Life, September 24, 1945, p. 64.

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Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

John Churton Collins

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Collins, Churton. "Some Maxims and Reflections." The English Review, c. 1914.

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I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do-and I have done it-and God forgives me for it.

Jimmy Carter

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Carter, Jimmy. "The Playboy Interview with Jimmy Carter." Interviewed by Robert Scheer. Playboy Magazine, 1 Nov. 1976.

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Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Edwin Hubble

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The Exploration of Space

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Hubble, Edwin. “The Exploration of Space.” Harper’s Magazine, May 1929.

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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)

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Forster, E.M. "What I Believe." Two Cheers for Democracy. Hogarth Press, 1951. Originally published in the Nation, 16 July 1938.

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We have to be people who set each other free.

Harry Hay

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Hay, Harry, Jr. "Meet Pioneer of Gay Rights, Harry Hay." Interviewed by Anne-Marie Cusac. The Progressive, Sept. 1998.

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

John Muir

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Muir, John. "The Yellowstone National Park." Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898.

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Muir, John. "The Yellowstone National Park." Our National Parks. Dover Publications, 2019.

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