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The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
Georg Simmel
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Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.


Howard Zinn
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In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.


J. William Fulbright
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Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.


Hubert H. Humphrey
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There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.


Roger Ebert
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln
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In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.


Learned Hand
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Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.
Jacob Bronowski
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The right I claim is that of every human being to speak what he believes to be the truth to whomever he may meet on his way.
George A. Moore
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If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?


Tom G. Palmer
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There is nowhere I encounter greater understanding for Israel's existential issues than in the Oval Office.
Ehud Olmert
I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.
Meg Ryan
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I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
Tao Lin
Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.
Michael Servetus
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He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.
Jose Marti
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Theories cannot claim to be indestructible. They are only the plough which the ploughman uses to draw his furrow and which he has every right to discard for another one, of improved design, after the harvest.
Paul Sabatier
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It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.
Hillary Clinton
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I don't claim to know everything. I claim to be a seeker of knowledge.


Marie Osmond
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
Thomas Lynch
I'm interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.
Louis Garrel
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