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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance. – Norman Mailer

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There is no greater impotence in all the world like knowing you are right and that the wave of the world is wrong, yet the wave crashes upon you. – Norman Mailer

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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. – Adlai Stevenson, speech, Princeton, 1954

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Not all those who wander are lost. – J.R.R. Tolkien

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Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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History is particularly important in throwing light on the source of our attitudes about sex because many of the assumptions we make are not necessarily scientific or rational but holdovers of past belief systems that are no longer held by modern society. – Vern Bullough

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Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ. – Donald Cargill

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