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Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. Faber & Faber, 1989.

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Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 5.

When I make a mistake, it's a beaut!

Fiorello La Guardia

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Guardia, Fiorello La. Quoted in Patience and Fortitude, by William Manners. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.

There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Mother and Son

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Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Mother and Son. Victor Gollancz/Julian Messner, 1955, ch. 10.

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Trotsky, Leon. Моя Жизнь [My Life]. Charles Scribner's Sons/Thornton Butterworth, 1930, ch. 40.

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Coolidge, Calvin. "The Supports of Civilization." Amherst College Alumni Dinner. 27 Nov. 1920, New York, NY, USA.

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Coolidge, Calvin. "The Supports of Civilization." The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924.

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American Beauty. Directed by Sam Mendes, Jinks/Cohen Company, 1999.

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Eliot, T. S. "The Dry Salvages." New English Weekly, Feb. 1941.

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Parfit, Derek. Reasons and Persons. Oxford University Press, 1984.

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Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung [Siddhartha: An Indian Poetry]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1922.

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Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Penguin Classics, 2002.

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Wilder, Thornton. Our Town. 22 Jan. 1938, McCarter Theatre, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, act 1.

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Wilder, Thornton. Our Town: A Play in Three Acts. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2020, act 1.

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Harding, William G. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1921, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Russell, Bertrand. "On the Value of Skepticism." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Franz Kappus. 14 May 1904.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Charlie Louth. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Nixon, Richard. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1969, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Kennedy, John F. Address at Amherst College. 26 Oct. 1963, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, USA.

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Keynes, John Maynard. The End of Laissez-Faire. Hogarth Press, 1926, ch. 1.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "The End of Laissaz-faire." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016, ch. 1.

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Armageddon. Directed by Michael Bay, Touchstone Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films/Valhalla Motion Pictures, 1998.

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Stevens, Wallace. Letter to Irita Van Doren. 20 Sept. 1954.

Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice.

Robin Morgan

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Morgan, Robin. Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist. Random House, 1977, ch. 4, sec. 2.