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“Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation.” — Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King Jr.

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“Loving just one is too little; loving all is being superficial; knowing yourself and loving as many as possible, letting your soul hide all the powers of love in itself, so that each gets its particular nourishment while consciousness nevertheless embraces it all – that is enjoyment, that is living.” - Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or

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Karl Popper is sometimes credited with coining "conspiracy theory." He didn't. The phrase is older and stranger 

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Darwin spent only five weeks in the Galápagos. He ate tortoise, rode tortoise, and drank tortoise urine

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Oscar Wilde said there is only good art and bad art — the artist's morality is beside the point. But it's not that simple 

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