"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart."

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"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart."

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"The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it."

Robert Toombs, American Politician

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"You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that."

Arthur Ashe, American Athlete

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"I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness."

Lady Gaga, American Musician

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"No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other."

Mary Douglas, British Scientist

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"There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with."

Woodrow Wilson, American President

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"Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying."

Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Revolutionary

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"If more women are in leadership roles, we'll stop assuming they shouldn't be."

Sheryl Sandberg, American Author

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"You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circle less, but to love those who exist beyond it more. Once make the feelings of confidence and of affection universal, and the distinctions of property and power will vanish; nor are they to be abolished without substituting something equivalent in mischief to them, until all mankind shall acknowledge an entire community of rights."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

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"The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule."

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"Beware the barrenness of a busy life."

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"A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true."

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"To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

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"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."

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"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."

Mortality

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

Unity

"The poets are only the interpreters of the Gods."

Art

"If a man would move the world he must first move himself."

Motivation

"He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy."

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"As for me, all I know is that I know nothing."

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