"There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help."

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“What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be!”

“Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.”

“Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the Ten Commandments.”

“The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.”

“It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.”

“No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.”

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"We are a nation crying out for security, equity, and justice. We need. We need good jobs. We need quality public education. We need a strong social safety net. We need health care to be understood as …"

— William Barber II

Politics1963

#knowledge

"It’s the Devil. The churches aren’t going to tell you. It is an alien force, not of this world, attacking humanity like the Bible and every ancient text says, and you can read the Bible, it’s hiding i…"

— Alex Jones

Journalism1974

#Human Nature

"Randal said it would be tough to do in sed. He didn't say he didn't understand sed. Randal understands sed quite well. Which is why he uses Perl."

— Larry Wall

Technology1954

#knowledge

"After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book . You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally triv…"

— Irving Kristol

Journalism1920–2009

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