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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower. ↗

— Gary Locke

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The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

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Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

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I get claustrophobic in a harness. I'd be a terrible superhero. ↗

— Kelly Macdonald

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You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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I've always been intrigued by the supernatural. ↗

— Leslie Mann

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In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not. ↗