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🇺🇸Thomas Jefferson

Politics

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."

"The day of your birth is one day’s advance towards the grave."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Literature

Age of Enlightenment

1749–1832

"Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment."

"Ne mireris, si vulgus verius loquatur quam honoratiores; quia etiam tutius loquitur."

"From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you."

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🇫🇷Alexis de Tocqueville

Politics

1805–1859

"The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle."

"No sociologist, for instance, should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time"

"The supreme test of the nation has come. We must all speak, act, and serve together!"

"Citizenship demands a sense of common purpose; participation in the hard work of self-government; an obligation to serve to our communities."

"Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be."

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🇨🇭Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Law

b. 1947

"We don’t want a dystopian future in which corporations and not democratically elected governments call the shots. We don’t want an international order akin to post-democracy or post-law."

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Tacitus

Politics

"Mercury is the deity whom they chiefly worship, and on certain days they deem it right to sacrifice to him even with human victims."

"Portraits of Copernicus: Copernicus's face reconstructed; Portrait; Nicolaus Copernicus"

"You really don't think about it as you go through it; you just try to do the right thing at the right time."

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🇺🇸Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Politics

anti-vax movement

b. 1954

"Thimerosal is a controversial mercury based vaccine preservative that research scientists and vaccine safety advocates have connected to the epidemic of brain disorders in children."

"You encouraging me means more to me than you can imagine ."

"The Philosophical Works of Cicero. A Selected Bibliography"

"You didn’t have to be a good speaker, because the minute you began, you were arrested."

"Authentic is one of my least favourite words because in such a diverse country, whose authenticity are you talking about?"

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🇺🇸William H. Prescott

Literature

1796–1859

"The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outward and visible."

"The communities in Judea and Samaria do not threaten our existence, they guarantee our existence."

"Chess first of all teaches you to be objective."

"I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I DEMAND of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action."

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🇺🇸Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Law

1933–2020

"Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of."

"Taiwan is the Republic of China, the Republic of China is Taiwan."

"Books, words, were my most treasured escape. I lived inside stories, I breathed them. I felt like they made me more human, or a better human…"

"The body of the legal system needs a soul and sometimes even an additional soul"

"In opening and conquering a country great and wild and rich - a country indeed not yet fully known or conquered - we have still to learn more about ourselves and each other."

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🇺🇸James Henry Hammond

Politics

1807–1864

"I think then I may safely conclude and I firmly believe that American slavery is not only not a sin but especially commanded by God through Moses and approved by Christ through His Apostles."

"Ingels: We are with you, we don't go, we stay with you."

"Unfortunately, in places like Ferguson and New York City, and in some communities across this nation, there is a disconnect between police agencies and many citizens—predominantly in communities of color."

"O give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall !"

"Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart on Oxford Reference"

"Form is a theatrical event of a certain length, and the length itself may be unpredictable."

"Musnad Ahmad bin Hanbal, English translation, Vol. 1, Darussalam Publications, Lahore, 2012"

"When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing to himself."

"Economists have never allowed their analysis to be influenced by psychologists of their time, but have always framed for themselves such assumptions about psychical processes as they have thought it desirable to make."

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