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Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores; ... - MORE Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores; let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come.

Herman Melville

immigration and immigrants

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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the e... - MORE Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

propaganda | art | fine arts

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I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow el... - MORE I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere. Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

Henry David Thoreau

trust | nature

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