"The enemies of myth are not the friends of reality but of triviality."

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“An individual declares himself a member of some group or other with the goal of demanding in its name what he is ashamed to claim in his own name.”

“No public cause deserves the unlimited allegiance of an intelligent man.”

“Genuine allegiance to an idea surpasses every psychological or social motivation.”

“The individual shrinks in proportion as the state grows.”

“To be intelligent without ideas is the privilege of the artist.”

“To have a dialog with those who do not share our basic premises is nothing more than a stupid way to kill time.”

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— Marie Antoinette

1755–1793

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— Alonzo King

Social Activism1796–1835

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"There is something in this universe which justifies William Cullen Bryant in saying Truth crushed to earth will rise again."

— William Cullen Bryant

Journalism1794–1878

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"You often hear people speaking as if life was like striving upward toward a mountain peak. That is not so. Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side…"

— Theodore Roosevelt

Politics1858–1919

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