Occupy Wall Street

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    “An immoderate fondness for dress, for pleasure, and for sway, are the passions of savages; the passions that occupy those uncivilized beings who have not yet extended the dominion of the mind, or even learned to think with the energy necessary to concatenate that abstract train of thought which produces principles.... that women from their education and the present state of civilized life, are in the same condition, cannot ... be controverted.”
    —Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

    “[Religious establishment] is adverse to the diffusion of the light of Christianity ... [because] with an ignoble and unchristian timidity it would [be] circumscribed, with a wall of defence, against the encroachments of error.”
    —James Madison (1751–1836)

    “There was an Old Man who supposed,
    That the street door was partially closed;”
    —Edward Lear (1812–1888)