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- A Universal Declaration of Human Rights [75th Anniversary] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights 2 comments
- The End of Matter (1906) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:The_End_of_Matter 5 comments
- Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men (1924) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Why_I_Never_Hire_Brilliant_Men 5 comments
- Do the suggestions of "Lambda: The Ultimate GOTO" about procedure optimization hold up with modern hardware? Modern compilers don't seem to work like this. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lambda:_The_Ultimate_GOTO 18 comments programming
- A Neglected Argument for the Reality of God https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/a_neglected_argument_for_the_reality_of_god?fbclid=iwar0xun9uqnedba9abonn1rnr6ljx4ytjzpqm18-llnd8jujglxsr3tmkrvc 25 comments philosophy
- [OC] Offside and goal-kicks: a historical note https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laws_of_the_Game_(1863) 58 comments soccer
- Ashtavakra Gita- 2500 year old dialogue of non-dualistic philosophy. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/ashtavakra_gita#translator's_notes 6 comments india
- "Are you surprised.. that after such long travel and so many changes of scene you have not been able to shake off the gloom and heaviness of your mind? You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate" - Seneca's take on Travel https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/moral_letters_to_lucilius/letter_28 52 comments philosophy
- Oscar Wilde quotation on classics, what are your thoughts? https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_Man_Under_Socialism 197 comments books
- The 1994 Budapest Memorandum Guaranteeing the Sovereignty of Ukraine http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/ukraine._memorandum_on_security_assurances 24 comments europe
- How far east should a country be for you (European Citizens) to consider it to be European? https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Consolidated_version_of_the_Treaty_on_European_Union/Title_VI:_Final_Provisions#Article_49 129 comments europe
- Germania by Tacitus, a Roman Historian's take on Ancient Germany http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/germania#xliv 11 comments history
- What is Einstein referring to when he talks about deceleration of a train corresponding to a gravitational "induction effect that is caused by the distant masses"? http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Bad_Nauheim_Debate 3 comments askscience
- When was the last time someone read the entire Challenger speech? Its been to long. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/ronald_reagan_announces_the_challenger_disaster 3 comments space
- During Nicaragua's civil war in the 1980s, the CIA commissioned a manual for the rebel contras of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force entitled "Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare" http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/psychological_operations_in_guerrilla_warfare 3 comments history
- "[I will propose:] A program to insure that no American family will be prevented from obtaining basic medical care by inability to pay." --Richard Nixon http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/richard_nixon%27s_second_state_of_the_union_address 4 comments politics
- He was a 5-star general and two term president. In his final farewell speech, Dwight D. Eisenhower warned us about the military industrial complex (a term he coined) and pointed out that every dollar that goes to the military is one dollar taken from health care or education. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/eisenhower%27s_farewell_address 33 comments reddit.com
- Over 30 years before general relativity, this was the first 'theory' of curved space. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/on_the_space-theory_of_matter 3 comments science
- On this anniversary of September 11, 2001, let's not forget Title I, Section 102 of the USA PATRIOT act. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/usa_patriot_act/title_i#sec._102._sense_of_congress_condemning_discrimination_against_arab_and_muslim_americans. 2 comments politics
- One of the most profound speeches in modern history: Eisenhower's farewell adress. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/eisenhower%27s_farewell_address 17 comments politics
- "Despite a 7-year reign of terror by over 115,000 Soviet troops, the Soviet attempt to subjugate the Afghans has failed. The puppet Kabul regime remains weak and illegitimate. The resistance movement has fought the Soviet army to a standstill." - Ronald Reagan http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/proclamation_5621 22 comments politics
- "The tragedy of Afghanistan continues as the valiant and courageous Afghan freedom fighters persevere in standing up against the brutal power of the Soviet invasion and occupation." -Ronald Reagan http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/proclamation_5034 6 comments politics
- "It is one of the serious evils of our present system of banking that it enables one class of society to act injuriously upon the interests of all the others and to exercise more than its just proportion of influence in political affairs." -Andrew Jackson, 1837 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/andrew_jackson's_farewell_address 8 comments history
- When Non-Violence is Suicide http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/when_non-violence_is_suicide 15 comments reddit.com
- We chose to go to the moon because it was hard. What has happened to this attitude in modern America? Why is science so hated? http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/we_choose_to_go_to_the_moon 279 comments science
- In event of Moon disaster. Richard Nixon's speech to announce that the Apollo 11 astronauts were permanently stranded, and would soon die. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/in_event_of_moon_disaster 3 comments science
- A top scientist turned against science and all it stands for. Here is his explanation why. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/industrial_society_and_its_future 3 comments science
- Despite being a murderous criminal mastermind, Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, had some interesting critiques of modern society. What do y'all think? http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/industrial_society_and_its_future 103 comments philosophy
- Nobody has yet fully documented what everybody who isn’t part of the cult understands, which is that nobody has ever had more contempt for customers than Mr. Jobs. Nobody. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/free_and_open_software:_paradigm_for_a_new_intellectual_commons 7 comments technology
- Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters. -Grover Cleveland's 4th State of the Union Address http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/grover_cleveland's_fourth_state_of_the_union_address 6 comments politics
- NY Constitution of 1777, Article XXXIX: "No minster ... or priest ... shall ... be eligible to, or capable of holding, any civil or military office or place within this State." http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/new_york_constitution_of_1777 29 comments politics
- Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/dulce_et_decorum_est 2 comments politics
- Allow me to share my favorite essay ever: Emerson's Self-Reliance http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/essays:_first_series/self-reliance 5 comments philosophy
- "Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose." - President Theodore Roosevelt spoke for 90 minutes after being hit with an assassins bullet http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/i_have_just_been_shot 173 comments politics
- 14 July: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, That if any persons shall unlawfully combine or conspire together, with intent to oppose any measure of the government of the United States... they shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/united_states_statutes_at_large/volume_1/5th_congress/2nd_session/chapter_74 4 comments politics
- The infamous Bill Cosby Pound Cake speech about lower income African Americans. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/pound_cake_speech 7 comments politics
- Unabomber Manifesto http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/industrial_society_and_its_future 10 comments technology
- To both sides of the aisle... I think you forgot something the 1st George W. said... http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/washington%27s_farewell_address 4 comments politics
- The full text of the Constitution of the United States of America http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/united_states_constitution 5 comments reddit.com
- Barak Obama in 2002: "I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda. I am not opposed to all wars. I’m opposed to dumb wars." http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/barack_obama's_iraq_speech 186 comments reddit.com