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“Through knowledge and understanding we will drive from the temple of freedom all who seek to establish over us thought control - whether they be agents of a foreign power or demagogues thirsty for personal power and public notice.”

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

English biography, 120-180 words more

“I originally welcomed the mobile phone as it seemed to me that it would enable you to work from anywhere. On the mobile, who was to know if you were sitting on the branch of a tree or sitting in an office? But it instead had the opposite effect: instead of freeing us from the office, it allowed the office to take away our freedom.”

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Author:Tom Hodgkinson

“Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be.”

Might School Chance High School Doctors Attorney Dentist Dropouts Stockbrokers School Dropout High School Dropout

Book:The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between

Source: The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between

“I am not bad, thank you. But don't worry, one of these days I shall certainly die.”

Dies Worry These Days

Author:Charles de Gaulle

“The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political world where the elites call the shots. Inside accounts reveal the extent to which Johnson and Nixon's conduct of the Vietnam War was constrained by the huge anti-war movement. It was the civil rights movement, not compelling arguments, that convinced members of Congress to end legal racial discrimination.”

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Author:Dean Baker

“It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government.”

Long Has Beens Hands Government Fighting Economic Economic Systems

Book:Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: The post-war years, her acclaimed columns, 1945-1952

Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: The post-war years, her acclaimed columns, 1945-1952

“Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.”

Perfection Absolutes Here And Now

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The wind cannot shake a mountain. Neither praise nor blame moves the wise man.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

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