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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Campaign address. 2 Oct. 1932, Detroit, MI, USA.

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Klee, Paul. "Schöpferische Konfession [Creative Confession]." Tribüne der Kunst und der Zeit. Eine Schriftensammlung [Tribune of Art and Time. A Font Collection]. Berlin: Von Kasimir Edschmid, 1920.

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Klee, Paul. "Creative Confession." Creative Confession and Other Writings. Tate, 2014.

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Address to the Delegates of the American Youth Congress. 10 Feb. 1940, Washington, DC, USA.

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Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben [Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life]. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1951.

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Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, translated by E. F. N. Jephcott. Verso, 2020.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Phyllis Diller

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Diller, Phyllis. Phyllis Diller's Household Hints. Doubleday, 1966.

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Roosevelt, Eleanor. "Intolerance." Cosmopolitan, Feb. 1940.

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Pope John Paul II. "Text of Pope's Speech at Rome Synagogue: 'You Are Our Elder Brothers.'" The New York Times, 14 Apr. 1986, sec. A, p. 4. Originally was a speech to the Jewish Community of Rome. 13 Apr. 1986, Great Synagogue of Rome, Rome, Italy.

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Orwell, George. "The Art of Donald McGill." Horizon, Sept. 1941.

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Orwell, George. "The Art of Donald McGill." The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell, vol. 2: My Country Right or Left 1940-1943, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 2007, no. 27, pt. 4.

Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?

Gordon Lightfoot

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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Lightfoot, Gordon. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." Summertime Dream. Reprise Records, 1976.

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Kennedy, John F. News conference about inequality in military service. 21 Mar. 1962, Washington, DC, USA.

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Bush, George H. W. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1989, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Meir, Golda. Stated after Levi Eshkol delivered a radio address to his nation. c. 1967.

Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not and shall not die.

Charles de Gaulle

Appeal of 18 June

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De Gaulle, Charles. L'Appel du 18 juin [The Appeal of 18 June]. BBC, 18 June 1940.

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Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. Harper & Row, 1963.

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Reagan, Ronald. Spoken during presidential campaign debate. Campaign debate. 28 Oct. 1980, Music Hall, Cleveland, OH, USA.

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Quayle, Dan. Speech to Phoenix Republican Forum. 23 Mar. 1990, Phoenix, AZ, USA.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Man and Superman." Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, act 4. Originally published by Archibald and Constable Co., Ltd., 1903.

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Shaw, George Bernard. Pygmalion. 16 Oct. 1913, Hofburg Theatre, Vienna, Germany, act. 2.

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Shaw, George Bernard. Pygmalion. Penguin, 2005, act 2.

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Lawrence, D.H. "The Ship of Death." Last Poems, edited by Richard Aldington and Giuseppe Orioli. The Viking Press, 1932, stanza 1.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Nancy Mitford

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Mitford, Nancy. The Pursuit of Love. Hamish Hamilton, 1945, ch. 1.