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"Ideas are mutable. They are always capable of growing. Each time we look at them, we can see something new. We just need to give ourselves permission to do so."

— Tim Hurson

Literature1946

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— Simón Bolívar

Military1783–1830

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"War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice."

— Norman Cousins

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"The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men."

— Immanuel Kant

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