A quotation from **Wendell Berry**
> The rule, acknowledged or not, seems to be that if we have great power we must use it. We would use a steam shovel to pick up a dime. We have experts who can prove there is no other way to do it.
**Wendell Berry** (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet […]
A quotation from **Addison**
> Whatever passion enters into a sentence or decision, so far will there be in it a tincture of injustice.
**Joseph Addison** (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1713-07-04), _The Guardian_ , No. 99
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A quotation from **James Shirley**
> The glories of our blood and state
> Are shadows, not substantial things;
> There is no armour against fate;
> Death lays his icy hand on kings:
> Scepter and crown
> Must tumble down,
> And, in the dust, be equal made
> With the poor crooked scythe and […]
A quotation from **Shakespeare**
> BASSANIO: In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
> But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,
> Obscures the show of evil?
**William Shakespeare** (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
_Merchant of Venice_ , Act 3, sc. 2, l. 77ff (3.2.77-79) (1597)
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A quotation from **La Rochefoucauld**
> We are stubborn because we are narrow-minded; it is hard to believe what is beyond the scope of our vision.
>
> _[La petitesse de l’esprit fait l’opiniâtreté, et nous ne croyons pas aisément ce qui est au delà de ce que nous voyons.]_
**François VI, duc […]
Anybody remotely interesting is mad in some way or another.
— The Doctor, in “The Greatest Show in the Galaxy”
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JAQUES: All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
— As You Like It, II, vii
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“One of the tasks of Indigenous education is to recognize Indigenous ways of knowing that will lead to greater liberty in thought while also restoring balance and harmony in the natural and built worlds.”
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A quotation from **Robert Ingersoll**
> We are told “God so loved the world” that he is going to damn almost everybody. If this orthodox religion be true, some of the greatest, and grandest, and best who ever lived are suffering God’s torments to-night. It does not appear to make much […]
AARON: Pray to the devils; the gods have given us over.
— Titus Andronicus, IV, ii
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“You have to hang up your travelling shoes and stop wandering sooner or later, don't you?”
“So I've been told. Personally, I just keep on wandering.”
— Morgana and the Doctor, in “The Greatest Show in the Galaxy”
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“I tell people that I've never been hurt by an honest question, and that's true: it's a cruel opinion that hurts, not a question.” — Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw
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If heroes don't exist, it is necessary to invent them; good for public morale.
— Cardinal Borusa, in “The Deadly Assassin”
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CHORUS: But passion lends them power, time means, to meet
Tempering extremities with extreme sweet.
— Romeo and Juliet, II, prologue
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“Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.” — Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young
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A quotation from **Adlai Stevenson**
> We must never delude ourselves into thinking that physical power is a substitute for moral power, which is the true sign of national greatness.
**Adlai Stevenson** (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman
Speech (1952-09-18), “The Atomic Future,” Bushnell […]
A quotation from **Mark Twain**
> [S]he brought some of those apples. I was obliged to eat them, I was so hungry. It was against my principles, but I find that principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
**Mark Twain** (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story […]
YORK: Comfort's in heaven; and we are on the earth,
Where nothing lives but crosses, cares and grief.
— Richard II, II, ii
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A quotation from **Horace**
> Good Homer sometimes nods, which gives me a jerk —
> But sleep may well worm its way into any long work!
>
> _[Et idem
> indignor, quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
> verum operi longo fas est obrepere somnum.]_
**Horace** (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist […]
It's more serious than death, Mr Stevenson. He's changing form.
— The Doctor, in “The Seeds of Doom”
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“QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence.” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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A quotation from **Teddy Roosevelt**
> Our worst revolutionaries today are those reactionaries who do not see and will not admit that there is any need for change.
**Theodore Roosevelt** (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909) […]
"Ah, but it is incredible how often things force one to do the thing one would like to do."
~ Hercule Poirot
(Agatha Christie, 1935)
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A quotation from **Doctor Who**
> JO: I don’t believe it! It’s bigger inside than out!
> THE DOCTOR: Yes. That’s because the TARDIS is dimensionally transcendental.
> JO: What does that mean?
> THE DOCTOR: It means that it’s bigger inside than out.
**Doctor Who** (1963-1989) British science […]
A quotation from **Eric Hoffer**
> Suffering cleanses only when it is free of resentment. Wholehearted contempt for our tormentors safeguards our soul from the mutilations of bitterness and hatred.
**Eric Hoffer** (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
_Passionate State of […]
A quotation from **Josh Billings**
> Man iz mi brother, and i konsider that i am nearer related tew him through hiz vices, than i am through hiz virtews.
>
> [Man is my brother, and I consider that I am nearer related to him through his vices, than I am through his virtues.]
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A quotation from **Ben Franklin**
> Many complain of their Memory, few of their Judgment.
**Benjamin Franklin** (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
_Poor Richard_ (1745 ed.)
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RUMOUR: Rumour is a pipe
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures
And of so easy and so plain a stop
That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
The still-discordant wavering multitude,
Can play upon it.
— 2 Henry IV, Induction
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“Would you like to explain that reference, Professor?”
“No.”
— The BBC man and Professor Horner, in “The Daemons”
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“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow — hate's so easy compared.” — Jack Kerouac, Big Sur
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