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• "If I were asked... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of [Americans] ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women." -- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835
  
• "He who strikes the first blow, admits he's lost the argument." -- Chinese proverb
  
• We must dare to think 'unthinkable' thoughts... We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent... Because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless." -- J.W. Fulbright, speech before the U.S. Senate, 1964
  
• "Books won't stay banned.  They won't burn.  Ideas won't go to jail.  In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.  The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas." -- A. Whitney Griswold, New York Times, 1959
  
• "The struggle between age classes is a distinctive class struggle in its own right." -- Gerhard Lenski, The Religious Factor, 1963
  
• "Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."  -- Van der Post, The Lost World of the Kalahari, 1958
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