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We realize that the greatest things that remain to be done must be done with the whole world for stage and in cooperation with the wide and universal forces of mankind, and we are making our spirits ready for those things.

Woodrow Wilson

Second Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson

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Wilson, Woodrow. "Second Inaugural Address." 5 Mar. 1917, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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History suggests only that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.

Milton Friedman

Capitalism and Freedom

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Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. University of Chicago Press, 1962, ch. 1.

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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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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Bertrand Russell

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Russell, Bertrand. "The Recrudescence of Puritanism." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

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A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

Herbert A. Simon

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Simon, Herbert. "Designing Organizations for an Information Rich World." Computers, Communications, and the Public Interest, edited by Martin Greenberger. Johns Hopkins Press, 1971.

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The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

Bertrand Russell

Marriage and Morals

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Russell, Bertrand. Marriage and Morals. Allen & Unwin, 1929, ch. 16.

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Inflation is the one form of taxation which can be imposed without any legislative action.

Milton Friedman

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Friedman, Milton. Quoted in "Facing Inflation: Interview with Milton Friedman." Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs. Routledge, Nov.-Dec. 1973, p. 20.

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I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

Hermann Hesse

Demian

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Elie Wiesel

Nobel Prize Lecture, 1986

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Wiesel, Elie. Acceptance speech. Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. 10 Dec 1986, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway.

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All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Elias Canetti

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Canetti, Elias. Die Provinz des Menschen: Aufzeichnungen 1942-1972. Hanser, 1973.

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The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason.

Bertrand Russell

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Russell, Bertrand. The Problems of Philosophy. Henry Holt and Company/Williams and Norgate, 1912, ch. 15.

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One never reaches home... But wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

Hermann Hesse

Demian

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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A general association of nations must be formed... For the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.

Woodrow Wilson

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Wilson, Woodrow. "The Fourteen Points." Congress meeting. 8 Jan. 1918, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA. Address.

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Wilson, Woodrow. "The Fourteen Points." Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-President, edited by Mario R. DiNunzio. NYU Press, 2006.

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