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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

- John Dryden

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

- H. L. Mencken

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that in no other country on Earth is my story even possible.

- Barack Obama

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes."

- Clare Boothe Luce

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The invariable mark of a dream is to see it come true.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.

- William James

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

- Aldous Huxley

In war, truth is the first casualty.

- Aeschylus

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

- Edith Wharton

I suggest that if you know history, then you might not be so easily fooled by the government when it tells you you must go to war for this or that reason -- that history is a protective armor against being misled.

- Howard Zinn

It is possible, reading standard histories, to forget half the population of the country. The explorers were men, the landholders and merchants men, the political leaders men, the military figures men. The very invisibility of women, the overlooking of women, is a sign of their submerged status.

- Howard Zinn

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