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No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.
-Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Lucy Maud Montgomery
No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.
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If the white man wants to live in peace with the indian, he can live in peace. treat all men alike. give them all the same law. give them all an even chance to live and grow. all men were made by the same great spirit chief. they are all brothers. the earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where i choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself, and i will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.
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Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. i was looking at 'em. cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. three thousand bucks. something like that- four thousand bucks. big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.
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The terrible tabulation of the french statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. if one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.
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There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry... there is no place for dogma in science. the scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. our political life is also predicated on openness. we know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. and we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress.
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