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Welles, Orson. Interview to celebrate his 70th birthday. The Times, 6 May 1985.

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Triumph of the Nerds. Directed by Paul Sen, narrated by Robert X. Cringely, Johnb Gau Productions for Channel 4 and Oregon Public Broadcasting, Channel 4/PBS, 14 Apr. 1996.

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Skinner, B. F. "New Methods and New Aims in Teaching." New Scientist, 21 May 1964.

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Earhart, Amelia. Letter to George Putnam. 2 July 1937.

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Frost, Robert. "The Figure a Poem Makes." Collected Poems of Robert Frost. Holt/Longmans, Green and Co., 1939.

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Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. Simon & Schuster, 1961, ch. 9.

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Tombstone. Directed by George P. Cosmatos, Hollywood Pictures/Cinergi Pictures, 1993.

You are the un-Americans and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

Paul Robeson

Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, June 12th, 1956.

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Robeson, Paul. Testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee. Un-American Activities Committee meeting. 12 June 1956, Washington, DC, USA.

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Bloodsport. Directed by Newt Arnold, Cannon Films, 1988.

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Getty, Jean Paul. Quoted in The Observer. 3 Nov. 1957.

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A Christmas Story. Directed by Bob Clark, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1983.

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The Maltese Falcon. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros., 1941.

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Updike, John. Quoted in "God's Country" by Michael Wood. New York Book Review, 29 Feb. 1996.

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Jagger, Mick and Keith Richards. "Mother's Little Helper." Performed by The Rolling Stones. Aftermath. Decca Records/London Recordings, 1966.

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Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, ch. 6.

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Gibran, Kahlil. "On Marriage." The Prophet. Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.

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Gibran, Kahlil. "On Marriage." The Prophet. Penguin Classics, 2019.

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Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man." The Egoist. 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915. Serial.

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Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch. 1.

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Bush, George H. W. Address before a joint session of Congress. 6 Mar. 1991, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Twain, Mark. "Letter III." Letters from the Earth. Harper & Row, 1962.

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Twain, Mark. Letters from the Earth." Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings, edited by Bernard DeVoto. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004, letter 3.

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1953, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.