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Osler, William. Science and Immortality. Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1904, ch. 2.

The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.

Alice Rossi

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Rossi, Alice S. The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir. Columbia University Press, 1973, pt. 2.

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Sagan, Carl. Cosmos. Random House, 1980.

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Red River. Directed by Howard Hawks, Monterey Productions, 1948.

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Schumpeter, Joseph Alois. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. Harper & Brothers, 1942, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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Stevens, Wallace. "Two or Three Ideas." 28 Apr. 1951, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, USA. Speech.

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Catt, Carrie Chapman. "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" Sixth Convention of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. 13 June 1911, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Didion, Joan. Run, River. Ivan Obolensky, Inc., 1963.

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Huxley, Aldous. Ends and Means (an Enquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization). Chatto & Windus, 1937, ch. 1.

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Mencken, Henry Louis. H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010, ch. 3. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1922.

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The Doors. "When the Music's Over." Strange Days. Elektra Records, 1967.

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Cohen, Leonard. "Hallelujah." Various Positions. Columbia Records, 1984.

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Patton. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. 20th Century Fox, 1969.

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Red River. Directed by Howard Hawks, Monterey Productions, 1948.

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Porter, Katherine Anne. Ship of Fools. Little, Brown and Company, 1962, pt. 3.

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Sinclair, Upton. I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked. Farrar & Rinehart, 1935.

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"Square Dance." The Wonder Years, written by Neal Marlens and Carol Black and Todd W. Langen, directed by Tom Moore, season 2, episode 15, The Black/Marlens Company and New World Television, 1989.

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Salinger, J. D. "A Girl I Knew." Good Housekeeping, Feb. 1948.

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

Christian Louis Lange

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Lange, Christian. Nobel Lecture. Nobel Peace Prize cermony. 13 Dec. 1921, Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway.

Little do they know that they meet under an empty sky from which the gods have departed.

Hans Morgenthau

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Morgenthau, Hans. Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948.