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Taft, William Howard. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1909, Senate Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Patton. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. 20th Century Fox, 1969.

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Vintage, 2023.

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Hamburger Hill. Directed by John Irvin, RKO Pictures, 1987.

Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.

Melvin Kranzberg

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Kranzberg, Melvin. "Technology and History: Kranzberg's Laws." Technology and Culture, vol. 27, no. 3, July 1986, pp. 544-560.

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Sixteen Candles. Directed by John Hughes, Universal Pictures/Channel Productions, 1984.

As a white candle
In a holy place,
So is the beauty
Of an aged face.

Joseph Campbell (poet)

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Campbell, Joseph. "The Old Woman." Irishry. Maunsel & Company, 1913, st. 1.

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Rothko, Mark. Quoted in Mark Rothko, written by Jeffrey Weiss. Yale University Press, 2000.

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Evans, Walker. Many are Called. Yale University Press, 2004, p. 197.

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Chekhov, Anton. Три сeстры́ [Three Sisters]. Directed by Knostatin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. 31 Jan. 1901, Moscow Art Theatre, Moscow, Russia, act 1.

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Chekhov, Anton. "Three Sisters." Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull' Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard, translated by Peter Carson. Penguin Classics, 2002, act 1.

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Eco, Umberto. Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose]. Bompiani, 1980.

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Eco, Humberto. The Name of the Rose, translated by William Weaver. HarperVia, 2014.

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Kennedy, Robert F. "Day of Affirmation." National Union of South African Students meeting. 6 June 1966, Jameson Hall, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa.

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Pope John Paul II. Speech on the occasion of the eighth world youth day. Farewell ceremony. 15 Aug. 1993, International Airport of Denver, Denver, CO, USA.

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Didion, Joan. "Pacific Distances." After Henry. Simon & Schuster, 1992.

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Didion, Joan. "Pacific Distances." Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s, edited by David L. Ulin. Library of America, 2021.

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Gide, Andre. "Portraits and Aphorisms: An Unprejudiced Mind." Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality, edited by Justin O'Brien. Secker & Warburg/Meridian Books, 1959.

Let's win this one for all the small schools that never had a chance to get here.

Hoosiers

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Hoosiers. Directed by David Anspaugh, Hemdale Film Corporation/De Haven Productions, 1986.

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Gorbachev, Mikhail. Speech on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. 2 Nov. 1987, Moscow, Russia.

Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

Noel Coward

Private Lives

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Coward, Noël. Private Lives. Directed by Noël Coward. Performed by Noël Coward and Adrianne Allen and Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier. 1930, King's Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 3.

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Coward, Noël. Private Lives. Methuen Drama, 2023, act 3.

There is no such thing as a human nature independent of culture.

Clifford Geertz

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Geertz, Clifford. "The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man." The Monday Lectures. 1965, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

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Mizner, Wilson. Quoted in The Legendary Mizners, written by Alva Johnston. Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953, ch. 4.