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Black, Hugo L. James Madison lecture. 17 Feb. 1960, New York University School of Law, New York University, New York City, NY, USA.

Lots of people talk to animals. Not very many listen though. That's the problem.

Benjamin Hoff

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Hoff, Benjamin. "Spelling Tuesday." The Tao of Pooh. E. P. Dutton, 1982.

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Durrell, Lawrence. Justine. Faber & Faber/E. P. Dutton, 1957.

Too often we give our children the answers to remember rather than the problems to solve.

Roger Lewin

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Lewin, Roger. "Observing the Brain Through a Cat's Eyes." The Saturday Review, 5 Oct. 1974.

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White, Patrick. Voss. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957, ch. 10.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Ernest Dimnet

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Dimnet, Ernest. What We Live By. Simon & Schuster, 1932, pt. 2, ch. 12.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

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Eban, Abba. Speech in London. 16 Dec. 1970, London, England, UK.

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Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press, 1962, ch. 9.

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Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Darkness and Day. David & Charles/Alfred A. Knopf, 1951, ch. 7.

And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house
With a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself
Well, how did I get here?

Talking Heads

Once in a Lifetime

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Byrne, David and Brian Eno. "Once in a Lifetime." Performed by Talking Heads. Remain in Light. Sire Records, 1980.

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Sagan, Carl. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space. Random House, 1994.

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Lippmann, Walter. Public Opinion. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922, pt. 3, ch. 6.

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Lippmann, Walter. Public Opinion. Dover Publications, 2004, pt. 3, ch. 6.

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Anouilh, Jean. L'Aloutte [The Lark]. Paris: La Table Ronde, 1953.

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Anouilh, Jean. "The Lark." Anouilh Plays: One: Antigone, Léocadia, The Waltz of the Toreadors, The Lark, and Poor Bitos. Methuen Drama, 1987.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Edward VIII

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Edward VIII. "Edward VIII, Afterwards Duke of Windsor." Look Magazine, 5 Mar. 1957.

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Levi, Primo. I sommersi e i salvati [The Drowned and the Saved]. Einaudi, 1986, preface.

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Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved, translated by Raymond Rosenthal. Simon & Schuster, 2017, preface.

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Chesterton, G.K. "The Defendant." The Wit, Whimsy and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 6, Coachwhip Publications, 2009, introduction. Originally published by R. Brinley Johnson, 1901.

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Wolfe, Thomas. You Can't Go Home Again. Harper & Row, 1940, ch. 48.

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Post, Laurens van der. The Lost World of the Kalahari. William Morrow, 1958, ch. 3.

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Graves, Robert. "In the Wilderness." Over the Brazier. c. 1916.

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Graves, Robert. "In the Wilderness." The Complete Poems: In One Volume. Penguin Books, 2003, l. 1-6.

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High Noon. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Stanley Kramer Productions, 1952.