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Goldman, Emma. "Anarchism: What It Really Stands For." Anarchism and Other Essays. Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1910.

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Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. Chatto & Windus, 1993.

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Beerbohm, Max. "Hosts and Guests." And Even Now. William Heinemann, 1920. Originally published in Harper's Magazine, 1919.

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O. Henry. "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog." The Four Million: A Collection of Short Stories. McClure, Phillips & Co., 1906.

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Yeats, William Butler. "Brown Penny." The Green Helmet and Other Poems. The Cuala Press, 1910.

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Yeats, William Butler. "Brown Penny." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad. Directed by David Zucker, Paramount Pictures, 1988.

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Khrushchev, Nikita. Quoted in New York Times. 18 Sept. 1955. Originally an impromptu speech at a dinner for visiting West German dignitaries. 17 Sept. 1955, Moscow, Russia.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Dissenting Opinion. Lochner v. New York. United States Reports, vol. 198, 17 Apr. 1905, pp. 74-76. Justia, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/198/45/.

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MirĂł, Joan. Interviewed by Yvon Taillandier. 1958.

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Williams, Tennessee. Camino Real. New Directions, 1953, block 12.

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"The Last Time I Saw Paris." Lady Be Good. Directed by Norman Z. McLeod, performed by Ann Sothern. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1941.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.

William S. Burroughs

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Burroughs, William Seward. The Naked Lunch. Olympia Press/Grove Press, 1959, appendix.

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Auden, W. H. "The Shield of Achilles." The Shield of Achilles. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1955. Originally published in Poetry, Oct. 1952.

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O'Connor, Flannery. Letter to Father John McCown. 9 May 1956.

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Maugham, William Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. Greenwood Press, 1970.

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White, E. B. "The Meaning of Democracy." The New Yorker, 3 July 1943.

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Wall Street. Directed by Oliver Stone, American Entertainment Partners/American Films, 1987.

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Ginsberg, Allen. "A Supermarket in California." Howl and Other Poems. City Lights Books, 1956.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Man and Superman: Maxims for Revolutionists." Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, preface. Originally published by Archibald and Constable & Co., Ltd, 1903.

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Berlin, Isaiah. "Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century." Foreign Affairs, Vol. 28, No. 3, Apr. 1950.