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Rothko, Mark. Conversations with Artists: 35 American Painters, Sculptors, and Architects Discuss Their Work and One Another with Selden Rodman. Capricorn Books, 1961. Originally stated in an interview with Selden Rodman in 1957.

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James, Henry. "The Ambassadors." North American Review, 1903.

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James, Henry. The Ambassadors, edited by Christopher Butler. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 5.

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Johnson, Lyndon B. Address accepting the presidential nomination. Democratic National Convention. 27 Aug. 1964, Atlantic City, NJ, USA.

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Sinclair, Upton. "The Jungle." Appeal to Reason, 25 Feb. 1905-4 Nov. 1905.

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Sinclaire, Upton. The Jungle. Dover Publications, 2001, ch. 3.

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Fry, Christopher. Time Magazine. 3 Apr. 1950.

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Whitehead, Alfred North. Adventures of Ideas. The Macmillan Company/Simon and Schuster, 1933, ch. 19, sec. 1.

It is a terrible shame for me-I came back, still alive, without having won the war.

Shoichi Yokoi

On returning to Japan after surviving for 28 years in the jungles of Guam before surrendering to the Americans in 1972.

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Yokoi, Shoichi. Quoted in "Obituary: Shoichi Yokoi." Written by James Kirkup. The Independent, 25 Sept. 1997.

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Beckett, Samuel. Proust. Chatto and Windus, 1930.

Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children.

Sam Levenson

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Levenson, Jam. Quoted in Ada Weekly News. 6 Apr. 1961.

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Federal Court. US v. Eugene V. Debs. RG 21, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Criminal Case Files, 1912–1977, Criminal Case #4057. 9. NYT, 10 Sept. 1918.

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Wilder, Thornton. The Skin of Our Teeth. 15 Oct. 1942, Shubert Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, act 1.

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Wilder, Thornton. "The Skin of Our Teeth." Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2020, act 1.

If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.

Helen Reddy

I Am Woman

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Reddy, Helen and Ray Burton. "I Am Woman." Performed by Helen Reddy. I Don't Know How to Love Him. Capitol Records, 1971.

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Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

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Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

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"The Persistence of Memory." Presented by Carl Sagan. Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, season 1, episode 11. PBS, 7 Dec. 1980.

A man always has two reasons for what he does-a good one, and the real one.

J.P. Morgan

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Morgan, John Pierpont. Quoted in Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship, written by Owen Wister. Macmillan, 1930.

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Frankfurter, Felix. Dissenting Opinion. United States v. Rabinowitz. United States Reports, vol. 339, 20 Feb. 1950, pp. 68-86. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/339/56/.

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The Breakfast Club. Directed by John Hughes, A&M Films/Channel Productions, 1985.

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Jung, Carl. Gegenwart und Zukunft [The Undiscovered Self], translated by R. F. C. Hull. Routledge & Kegen Paul, 1958.

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Von Braun, Werner. Quoted in A Random Walk in Science, edited by Eric Mendoza. Institute of Physics Publishing, 1973. Originally stated during an interview with The New York Times, 16 Dec. 1957.

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Gershwin, Ira. "Nice Work If You Can Get It." Damsel in Distress. Composed by George Gershwin. Performed by Fred Astaire and The Stafford Sisters. RKO Radio Pictures, 1937.