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"The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin."
"The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe."
"It is interesting to ponder the fact that there is no real difference between what the Western Fascists wanted of literature and what the Bolsheviks want. Let me quote: "The personality of the artist should develop freely and without restraint. One thing, however, we demand: acknowledgement of our creed. Thus spoke one of the big Nazis, Dr. Rosenberg, Minister of Culture in Hitler's Germany. Another quote: "Every artist has the right to create freely; but we, Communists, must guide him according to plan. Thus spoke Lenin. Both of these are textual quotations, and their similitude would have been highly diverting had not the whole thing been so very sad."
"Your expertise can elevate your impressions to bring you to an entirely new realm."
"Knowledge imparts a sense of authority. It will help you stand out and give you an edge over your competition."
"Oh lord and master. High muckety-muck."
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"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."
"The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed."
"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."
"Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it."
"One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the only book which allowed him to forget politics."
"Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print."
"The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable."
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