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""Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg." Yes, no matter how right the wall may be and how wrong the egg, I will stand with the egg. Someone else will have to decide what is right and what is wrong; perhaps time or history will decide. If there were a novelist who, for whatever reason, wrote works standing with the wall, of what value would such works be?"

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Maria Montessori Educator, Physician
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"The child is the spiritual builder of mankind, and obstacles to his free development are the stones in the wall by which the soul of man has become imprisoned."

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John Steinbeck Novelist, Journalist
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"I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists."

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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
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"The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement."

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Hugo Black Justice
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"The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach."

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Dizzy Dean Baseball Player
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"He (Bill Terry) once hit a ball between my legs so hard that my center-fielder caught it on the fly backing up against the wall."

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Salvador Dali Artist, Surrealist
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"What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust."

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Stephen King Author
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"The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through."

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Oscar Wilde Writer
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"The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher."

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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
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"They [the Reagan Administration] want to put street criminals in jail to make life safer for the business criminals. They're against street crime, providing that street isn't Wall Street."

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Gilbert K. Chesterton Writer, Journalist
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"O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride."

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Lil Wayne Rapper, Musician
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"Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls."

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Joaquin Miller Poet, Writer
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"Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven."

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Elizabeth Warren Politician, Lawyer
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"Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones the direct our economy and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?"

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David Barton Politician
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"That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government."

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