"Some people would rather drown our domes in blood than learn anything from history. Or learn anything at all."

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“Men may move mountains, but ideas move men.”

“Permanent justice is well worth a temporary offended protest, I can assure you, Lieutenant.”

“I may be small, but I screw up big because I’m standing on the shoulders of GIANTS.”

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“I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given. They must be taken and the worse the odds and the fiercer the resistance, the greater the honor. Victories can’t be gifts.”

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"As it is not by the methods of the laboratory that we learn to know life, so it is not by the methods of the intellect that we learn to know God."

— Evelyn Underhill

poetry1875–1941

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"If the circumstances make it such that you can't fuck a man in the ass, then just peckerslap him. Better to let him know who's in charge than to let him get the keys to the car."

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Politics1908–1973

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— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Philosophy1907–1972

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