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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Notebook entry. 25 Oct. 1836.

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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
Shall win my love.

William Shakespeare

The Taming of the Shrew

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Shakespeare, William. The Taming of the Shrew. London: Cuthbert Burbie, 1594, act 4, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Taming of the Shrew." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 2.

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The story of our inferiority is an old dodge, as I have said: for wherever men oppress their fellows, wherever they enslave them, they will endeavor to find the needed apology for such enslavement and oppression in the character of the people oppressed and enslaved.

Frederick Douglass

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Douglass, Frederick. “What the Black Man Wants.” Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. 26 Jan. 1865, Boston, MA, USA.

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Douglass, Frederick. Great Speeches by Frederick Douglass. Dover Publications, 2013.

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I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?"

Alan Turing

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Computing Machinery and Intelligence

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Turing, Alan. "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." Mind. Oxford University Press, 1950.

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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.

Douglas MacArthur

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MacArthur, Douglas. Address to a Joint Meeting of Congress. House of Representatives. 19 Apr. 1951, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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We know what we are but know not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 4, sc. 5.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 5.

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In the true marriage relation, the independence of the husband and wife is equal, the dependence mutual and their obligations reciprocal.

Lucretia Mott

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Mott, Lucretia. Spoken by Mott and written down by Susan B. Anthony. c. 1829.

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The average man doesn't want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.

H.L. Mencken

Notes on Democracy

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Mencken, H. L. Notes on Democracy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926, pt. 3, ch. 1.

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Men have nice cars. Not cause they like nice cars. Because they know women like nice cars. That’s how it goes. Cause men are hunters. And the car is the bait. And a woman comes up and says: “Ooh, nice Porsche.” “Gotcha, bitch!”

Dave Chappelle

Killin' Them Softly

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Chappelle, Dave. Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly. HBO, 26 July 2000.

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That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved.

Declaration of Independence

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United States Declaration of Independence. 1776.

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The National Archives. The Declaration of Independence: A Transcript. 24 July 2020, www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript.

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The law sees and treats women the way men see and treat women.

Catherine MacKinnon

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MacKinnon, Catharine A. "Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence." Signs. Vol. 8, No. 4, c. 1983.

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It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Douglas MacArthur

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MacArthur, Douglas. Keynote address at the Republican National Convention. Republican National Convention. 7 July 1952, International Amphitheatre, Chicago, IL, USA.

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These men and women...ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.

Anthony Kennedy

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Obergefell v. Hodges

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Kennedy, Anthony. United States, Supreme Court. Obergefell v. Hodges. United States Reports, vol. 576, 26 June 2015, no. 14-556, pp. 644-742. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/576/14-556/.

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100 percent of the shots you don't take don't go in the net.

Wayne Gretzky

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Gretzky, Wayne. Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer. 9 Feb. 1983.

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A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Lew Wallace

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Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ

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Wallace, Lew. Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Harper & Brothers, 1880, bk. 5, ch. 7.

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Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist bothers to buy a bottle of wine.

Andrea Dworkin

Sexual Economics

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Dworkin, Andrea. Letters from a War Zone. Dutton, 1989, pt. 3.

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama. 10 Apr. 1909, Abby Theatre of Dublin, Liverpool, England, UK, pt. 1.

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