"Just because it has always been that way does not mean that it will always be so."

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“It is not that you cannot understand it, it is that you cannot compute it.”

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“We shouldn't see ourselves as ‘controllers' of the world, but as ‘actors' in the world.”

“Once you know the rules of the game, you can change them.”

“Objects do not depend on the concepts we have of them.”

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— Elbridge Gerry

1862–1935

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"I don't complain about "the military" because of inconvenience or discomfort … I complain about how perilous it feels to attempt an authentic Christianity in the midst of "exploiting persons of their …"

— Joshua Casteel

Military1979–2012

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"I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me…"

— Paul Newman

Entertainment1954–2008

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"Ritson: "That same power, one may answer, which authorises kings to take where it can be worst spared, and give it where it is least wanted. Our hero, in this respect, was a knight-errant; and wanted …"

— Joseph Ritson

Social Activism1752–1803

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