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Robinson, Joan. "Metaphysics, Morals and Science." Economic Philosophy. C. A. Watts and Co., 1962.

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Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. Simon & Schuster, 1961, ch. 31.

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Nabokov, Vladimir. Quoted in The New York Times. 21 July 1969.

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Chester W. Nimitz

Describing the battle of Iwo Jima.

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Nimitz, Chester W. Statement after the Battle of Iwo Jima. c. 1945, Iwo Jima, Tokyo, Japan.

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Macmillan, Harold. Speech in England. 20 July 1957, Bedford, England, UK.

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LaFollette, Suzanne. Concerning Women. Albert & Charles Boni, 1926, ch. 1.

People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.

Helen Prejean

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Describing her opposition to the death penalty.

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Prejean, Helen. Quoted in "Sister Sympathy." Written by Sue Helpren. The New York Times Magazine, 9 May 1993.

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Faulkner, William. Speech at the Nobel Banquet. Nobel Banquet. 10 Dec. 1950, City Hall, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Truman, Harry S. Statement announcing recognition of the State of Israel. 14 May 1948, Washington, DC, USA.

Life Begins at Forty.

Walter B. Pitkin

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Pitkin, Walter B. Life Begins at Forty. Whittlesey House McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1932.

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Colette. Le Pur et l'impur and Ces Plaisirs [The Pure and the Impure and These Pleasures]. J. Ferenczi & fils, 1932, ch. 9.

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Colette. The Pure and the Impure. NYRB Classics, 2000, ch. 9.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

No Mean City

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Strunsky, Simeon. No Mean City. E.P. Dutton, 1944, ch. 38.

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Pasternak, Boris. Letter to Nikita Khrushchev. 30 Oct. 1958.

That's the way the ball bounces.

George Mandel

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Mandel, George. Flee the Angry Strangers. Bobbs-Merrill, 1952.

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Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Directed by Elia Kazan. Performed by Barbara Bel Geddes and Burl Ives and Ben Gazzara. 24 Mar. 1955, Morosco Theatre, New York City, New York, USA, act 2.

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Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New Directions, 2004, act 2.

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McCullers, Carson. "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." Harper's Bazaar, 1943.

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McCullers, Carson. "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe and Other Stories. Mariner Books, 2005.

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Williams, Tennessee. "The Timeless World of a Play." The New York Times, 14 Mar. 1951.

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Rope. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Transatlantic Pictures, 1948.

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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. Nobel Lecture in Literature. 1970, Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Poincare, Henri. Science et methode [Science and Method]. Flammarion, 1914, bk. 1, ch. 3.