William Simon U'Ren (1859-1949) was an American attorney, politician, and political activist. A progressive at the turn of the 20th century, U'Ren was instrumental in making the use of the initiative and referendum part of the established governmental system in the state of Oregon, thereby serving as a model for the rest of the country.
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“Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain, and the future as the past would be present to its eyes.”
—Pierre Simon De Laplace (1749–1827)