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Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1927, ch. 17.

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Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Signet, 2007, ch. 17.

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Camus, Albert. La Chute [The Fall]. Editions Gallimard, 1956.

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Bush, George H. W. News conference at the White House. 22 Mar. 1990, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

Advertising is the greatest art form of the twentieth century.

Marshall McLuhan

Advertising Age

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McLuhan, Marshall. Advertising Aid. 3 Sept. 1976.

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

Elizabeth David

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David, Elizabeth. French Country Cooking. John Lehmann, 1951, introduction.

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Kundera, Milan. Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli [The Book of Laughter and Forgetting]. Gallimard, 1979.

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Kundera, Milan. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, translated by Aaron Asher. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999.

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

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Wells, H. G. The Outline of History. George Newnes, 1920.

A man is literally what he thinks.

James Allen

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Allen, James. As a Man Thinketh. 1903.

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Allen, James. As a Man Thinketh: The Complete Original Edition. St. Martin's Essential, 2019.

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Monty Python's Life of Brian. Directed by Terry Jones, Handmade Films/Python (Monty) Pictures, 1979.

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Nixon, Richard. Announcing major United States offensive into Cambodia. 30 Apr. 1970, The White House, Washington, DC, USA. Broadcast.

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The Matrix. Directed by The Wachowskis. Warner Bros./Village Roadshow Pictures/Groucho II Film Partnership/Silver Pictures, 1999.

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Gide, Andre. Les Faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters]. Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1925, pt. 1, ch. 8.

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Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy. Penguin Books, 1990, pt. 1, ch. 8.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Bernard Shaw's Appreciation of Coburn." Camera Work, edited and published by Alfred Stieglitz, 1906, no. 15, p. 33.

He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism which can only be called "it."

Elinor Glyn

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Glyn, Elinor. "It." Cosmopolitan Magazine, Feb. - Mar. 1927.

From troubles of the world
I turn to ducks,
Beautiful comical things.

F.W. Harvey

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Harvey, Frederick William. "Ducks." Ducks, and other Verses. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1919, I. 1.

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White, E. B. "The Commuter." The New Yorker, c. 1982.

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Harding, William G. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1921, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Loos, Adolf. "Ornament und Verbrechen [Ornament and Crime]." 21 Jan. 1910, Academic Association for Literature and Music, Vienna, Austria. Lecture.

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Loos, Adolf. Ornament and Crime. Penguin Classics, 2019.