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High Noon. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Stanley Kramer Productions, 1952.

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Nabokov, Vladimir. Talking about the novel Bleak House. c. 1940, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA. Lecture.

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Nabokov, Vladimir. "Charles Dickens: Bleak House." Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers. Mariner Books, 2002.

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Du Maurier, Daphne. The Rebecca Notebook: and Other Memories. Gollancz, 1981.

I have seen the future; and it works.

Lincoln Steffens

Following a visit to the Soviet Union in 1919.

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Steffens, Lincoln. The Letters of Lincoln Steffens. Vol. 1, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938. Originally a letter to Marie Howe, 3 Apr. 1919.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Lawrence Durrell

Mountolive

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Durrell, Lawrence. Mountolive. Faber and Faber, 1958.

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

Roy Campanella

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Campanella, Roy. Quoted in New York Journal-American. 12 Apr. 1957.

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On the Waterfront. Directed by Elia Kazan, Horizon Pictures, 1954.

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O. Henry. "Gifts of the Magi." The Four Million: A Collection of Short Stories. McClure, Phillips & Co., 1906. Originally published in The New York Sunday World, 10 Dec. 1905.

We say to you today in a loud and a clear voice: enough of blood and tears. Enough.

Yitzhak Rabin

To the Palestinians, at the signing of the Israel-Palestine Declaration, on September 13, 1993.

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Rabin, Yitzhak. Speech to the Palestinians at the Signing of the Israel-Palestine Declaration. 13 Sept. 1993, Washington, DC, USA.

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McLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. McGraw-Hill, 1964, ch. 1.

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Matisse, Henri. "Notes d'un peintre [Notes of a Painter]." Le Grande Revue, 25 Dec. 1908.

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Matisse, Henri. "Notes of a Painter." Matisse on Art, translated and edited by Jack Flam. University of California Press, 1995, ch. 2.

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Chesterton, G.K. "The House of Christmas." Poems. John Lane Company, 1916.

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Mistinguett. Quoted in "Limelights and Footlights." Written by Hedy Clark. Theatre Arts, 1955.

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Hand, Learned. "On Receiving an Honorary Degree." Harvard Alumni Bulletin, 7 July 1939.

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Whitehead, Alfred North. An Introduction to Mathematics. Henry Holt and Company/Williams and Norgate, 1911, ch. 5.

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Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 36.

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Dazed and Confused. Directed by Richard Linklater, Detour Filmproduction/Alphaville Films, 1993.

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Auden, W. H. "Words and the Word." Secondary Worlds. Random House, 1968. Originally a lecture given on Oct. 1967, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, UK.

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Russell, Bertrand. "In Praise of Idleness." In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays. George Allen & Unwin, 1935. Originally published in Harper's Magazine, Oct. 1932.

The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

Edgar A. Guest

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Guest, Edgar. Sermons We See. c. 1926.