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Pinker, Steven. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Viking Books, 2011, preface.

Cunningham, Allan. A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea. Performed by Mr. Howard. Baltimore: Howard. G. Willig Jr., 1850, I. 1.

Ertz, Susan. Anger in the Sky. Harper & Brothers/Hodder & Stoughton, 1943.

Cowper, William. "Retirement." Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. London: J. Johnson, 1782.

Kennedy, Robert F. "Day of Affirmation." National Union of South African Students meeting. 6 June 1966, Jameson Hall, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa.

The Thin Red Line. Directed by Terrence Malick, Fox 2000 Pictures/Phoenix Pictures/Geisler-Roberdeau, 1998.

Whiplash. Directed by Damien Chazelle, Blumhouse Productions/Right of Way Films/Bold Films, 2014.

Auden, W. H. "Funeral Blues." The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts. Faber & Faber, 1936.

Rumsfeld, Donald. News conference. 22 Jan. 2003.

Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr. "Black Power: A Form of Godly Power." Keep the Faith, Baby! Simon & Schuster/Trident Press, 1967.

Abse, Dannie. "Encounter at a Greyhound Bus Station." Ask the Moon. Hutchinson, 2014.

"Don't You Know Anything About Women?" The Wonder Years, written by Neal Marlens and Carol Black and Tammy Ader, directed by Jeffrey D. Brown, season 3, episode 11, The Black/Marlens Company and New World Television, 1990.

Gershwin, Ira. "Love is Here to Stay." The Goldwyn Follies. Composed by George Gershwin. Performed by Kenny Baker. Samuel Goldwyn Productions, 1938.

Drabble, Margaret. A Summer Bird-Cage. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963, ch. 7.

Parkinson, C. Northcote. Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress. John Murray, 1958, ch. 1. Originally published in The Economist, Nov. 1955.