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Article · Newspaper

History is written by the winners.

1944

★ 9.1

Interview · Newspaper

Because it's there.

The New York Times · 1923

★ 9.0

The customer is always right.

1905

★ 9.0

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus... Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Francis Pharcellus Church

1897

★ 8.3

Essay · Newspaper

A government of laws, and not of men.

1775

★ 7.2

Poem · Newspaper

All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

1849

★ 7.2

Motto · Newspaper

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

Susan B. Anthony

1868

★ 7.1

If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

1944

★ 7.0

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind.

William Lloyd Garrison

The Liberator · 1837

★ 7.0

Politics is the art of the possible.

Otto von Bismarck

1867

★ 7.0

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Henry Kissinger

1971

★ 7.0

Poem · Newspaper

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

Edgar Allan Poe

New York Evening Mirror · 1845

★ 6.9

If you remember the 60's, you really weren't there.

Charles Fleischer

1982

★ 6.9

I am about Courting a Girl I have had but little Acquaintance with; how shall I come to a Knowledge of her Fawlts? and whether she has the Virtues I imagine she has? Answ. Commend her among her Female Acquaintance.

Benjamin Franklin

1732

★ 6.0

Essay · Newspaper

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.

William Lloyd Garrison

To the Public · 1831

★ 5.2

Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them.

Charles J. Sykes

1996

★ 5.2

At first it was a giant column that soon took the shape of a supramundane mushroom.

William L. Laurence

The New York Times · 1945

★ 5.1

Essay · Newspaper

If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture you would be pretty much left with "Let's Make a Deal."

The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community · 1987

★ 5.1

A great ball of fire about a mile in diameter, changing colors as it kept shooting upward, from deep purple to orange, expanding, growing bigger, rising as it was expanding, an elemental force freed from its bonds after being chained for billions of years.

William L. Laurence

The New York Times · 1945

★ 5.0

Poem · Newspaper

Inebriate of Air - am I - And debauchee of dew - Reeling - thro endless summer days - From inns of Molten Blue.

Emily Dickinson

1861

★ 4.5

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