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We must know the truth; and we must avoid error,--these are our first and great commandments as would-be knowers; but they are not two ways of stating an identical commandment, they are two separable laws. Although it may indeed happen that when we believe the truth A, we escape as an incidental consequence from believing the falsehood B, it hardly ever happens that by merely disbelieving B we necessarily believe A. We may in escaping B fall into believing other falsehoods, C or D, just as... William James
To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state. Walter Lippmann
One must lie low, no matter how much it went against the grain, and try to understand that this great organization remained, so to speak, in a state of delicate balance, and that if someone took it upon himself to alter the dispositions of things around him, he ran the risk of losing his footing and falling to destruction, while the organization would simply right itself by some compensating reaction in another part of its machinery? since everything interlocked? and remain unchanged, unless,... Franz Kafka
Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, (born circa 1818? February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia", Douglass is one of the most prominent figures in African-American and United States history. He was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, female, Native American, or recent immigrant. He was fond of saying, "I would... Frederick Douglass
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan. A stately pleasure dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran. Through caverns measureless to man. Down to a sunless sea. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Yukio Mishima quote: "Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of..."
Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart. Yukio Mishima
Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive? Judith Butler
In a dog's world, only three states existed: "now," "in a while," and "forever." If someone left, he was gone "forever," and when he returned they rejoiced as much as if he were back from the dead precisely because he'd been gone "forever. Mercedes Lackey
Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth. H. L. Mencken
Human relations, at least between the sexes, were carried on as relations between countries are now - with ambassadors, and treaties. The parties concerned met on the great occasion of the proposal. If this were refused, a state of war was declared. Virginia Woolf
Winston Churchill quote: "The United States invariably does the right thing, after..."
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. Winston Churchill
The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the new nation--all this was already settled in the colonies by the time of the Revolution. With the English out of the way, it could now be put on paper, solidified, regularized, made legitimate by the Constitution of the United States. Howard Zinn
There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state.-(from "The Bicentennial Man) story) Isaac Asimov
When Radar O'Reilly, just out of high school, left Ottumwa, Iowa, and enlisted in the United States Army it was with the express purpose of making a career of the Signal Corps. Richard Hooker
Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters of personal choice. Carl Hiaasen

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