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Trainspotting. Directed by Danny Boyle, Channel Four Films/Figment Films/Noel Gay Motion Picture Company, 1996.

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Hawking, Steven. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 1988, conclusion.

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Magnolia. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Ghoulardi Film Company/JoAnne Sellar Productions, 1999.

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Truman, Harry S. Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: 1946-52, Years of Trial and Hope. Vol. 2, Doubleday & Company, 1955, ch. 8.

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Auden, W. H. "The Protestant Mystics." Forewords and Afterwords. Random House/Faber and Faber, 1973.

Art, it is said, is not a mirror, but a hammer: it does not reflect, it shapes.

Leon Trotsky

Literature and Revolution

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Trotsky, Leon. Литература и революция [Literature and Revolution]. Soviet Government, 1924.

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Trotsky, Leon. Literature and Revolution, edited by William Keach. Haymarket Books, 2005.

Life is a game... And you keep score with dollars.

Ted Turner

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Turner, Ted. "Playboy Interview: Ted Turner." Interviewed by Peter Ross Range. Playboy Magazine, Aug. 1978.

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Wilson, Woodrow. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1913, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Bangs, Lester. "How Long Will We Care?" The Village Voice, 29 Aug. 1977.

I don't talk about success, I don't know what it is. Wait until I'm dead.

Imogen Cunningham

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Cunningham, Imogen. Interviewed by Paul J. Karlstrom and Louise Katzman. 9 June 1975, San Franacisco, CA, USA.

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Keller, Helen. We Bereaved. Leslie Fulenwider, 1929.

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Schumpeter, Joseph Alois. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. Harper & Brothers, 1942, pt. 3, ch. 18.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

Wole Soyinka

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Soyinka, Wole. "A Letter to Compatriots." The Man Died: Prison Notes. Harper & Row/Rex Collings Limited, 1972.

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Einstein, Albert. Quoted in The Universe and Dr. Eistein. Written by Lincoln Barnett. Sloane, 1950. Originally printed in Harpers, 1948.

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Kubrick, Stanley. Quoted in The Guardian. 5 June 1963.

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Sagan, Carl. "Four Cosmic Questions." Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium. Random House, 1997, ch. 5.

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Brooks, Gwendolyn. "Exhaust the Little Moment." Annie Allen. Harper & Brothers, 1949.

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Brecht, Bertolt. Die Dreigroschenoper [The Threepenny Opera]. 31 Aug. 1928, Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin, Germany, act 2, sc. 6.

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Brecht, Bertolt. The Threepenny Opera. Grove Press, 1994, act 2, sc. 6.

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Nixon, Richard. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1973, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Directed by John Hughes. Paramount Pictures, 1986.