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• Whoever tells a lie cannot be pure in heart -- and only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
  -- Ludwig Van Beethove...
• Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
  -- Amy Lowell...
• I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
  -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) -- Speech, June 16, 1858...
• No slave is ever freed, save he freeth himself.
• Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.
  Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-1872)...
• Men must either be caressed or annihilated and the injury must be such that the victim cannot pay you back for it.
  Whoever acts otherwise is obliged to stand forever with a knife in his hand....
• He [Moliere] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.
  -- Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711) -- Satire 2...
• Openly free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. -- Nelson Mandela
• No more slave States; no slave Territories. -- Salmon P.
  Chase (1808-1873) -- Platform of the Free Soil National Convention, 1848...