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It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured....

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Howard ZinnYou Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should li...

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Howard ZinnYou Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

I'm deeper than the shit I'm in and I don't really give a damn.

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Iggy PopThe Complete Lyrics of Iggy Pop 1969-1999

Scrimgeour: "It's time you learned some respect!" Harry: "It's time you earned it.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some ...

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Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marl...

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An Atheist is a person who questions every kind of authority, and this is the thing that is importan...

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A lot of people call you a feminist painter.""What indeed," I say. "I hate party lines, I hate ghett...

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We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we ...

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Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will l...

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Robert JordanTowers of Midnight

Dalek: I will talk to the Doctor.The Doctor: Oh will you? That's nice. Hello!Dalek: The Dalek strate...

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So if you care to find me/Look to the western sky/As someone told me lately/Everyone deserves the ch...

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A flicker of defiance flared very briefly in Rincewind's battered heart.

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And ...

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Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death. Thought...

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One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child c...

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One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child c...

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One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child c...

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One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child c...

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One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child c...

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One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child c...

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One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child c...

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One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child c...

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The kind of submission or resignation that he showed, was that of a man who was tired out. I sometim...

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