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Are all men in disguise except those crying?

Dannie Abse

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

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"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.

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

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

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

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Malcolm X. Directed by Spike Lee, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 1992.

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Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

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Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

Marjorie Rawlings

The Yearling

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Rawlings, Marjorie. The Yearling. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938, ch. 12.

We have ways to make men talk.

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. Directed by Henry Hathaway, Paramount Pictures, 1935.

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Bush, Barbara. Remarks at Wellesley College commencement. Commencement ceremony. 1 June 1990. Wellesley, MA, USA.

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Dazed and Confused. Directed by Richard Linklater, Detour Filmproduction/Alphaville Films, 1993.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Walt Kelly

The cartoon-strip character, Pogo the opossum, looking at litter under a tree. Used as an Earth Day poster in 1971.

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Kelly, Walt. "We Have Met the Enemy…" Pogo. 22 Apr. 1970. Poster.

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Gregory, Dick. "New York City." From the Back of the Bus. Dutton, 1962.

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.

Terry Tempest Williams

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Williams, Terry Tempest. Statement regarding the Utah public lands management act of 1995. 13 July 1995, Washington, DC, USA.

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Fromm, Erich. Escape from Freedom. Farrar & Rinehart, 1941, foreword.

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Elie Wiesel

Nobel Prize Lecture, 1986

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Wiesel, Elie. Acceptance speech. Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. 10 Dec 1986, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway.

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Canetti, Elias. Die Provinz des Menschen: Aufzeichnungen 1942-1972. Hanser, 1973.

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Cohen, Leonard. The Favourite Game. Secker and Warburg, 1963, bk. 2, ch. 19.

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Carter, Jimmy. "The Playboy Interview with Jimmy Carter." Interviewed by Robert Scheer. Playboy Magazine, 1 Nov. 1976.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Edwin Hubble

The Exploration of Space

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Hubble, Edwin. “The Exploration of Space.” Harper’s Magazine, May 1929.