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Hawking, Steven. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 1988, conclusion.

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James, William. "Mysticism." Gifford Lecture. c. 1902, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. Lecture.

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James, William. "Mysticism." The Varieties of Religious Experience, edited by Martin E. Marty. Penguin Classics, 1982.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

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Merton, Thomas. No Man Is an Island. Clonmore & Reynolds/Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Stubby Currence

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Anonymous. Quoted in Oklahoma City Star. 1934.

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Gellhorn, Martha. "Letter to Sandy Gellhorn, 13 Oct. 1969." Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn, edited by Caroline Moorehead. Holt, 2007. Originally a letter to Sandy Gellhorn, 13 Oct. 1969.

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Close, Chuck. Quoted in Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere. Random House, 1998. Originally spoken during an interview with Michael Kimmelman, 1998.

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McPhee, John. Basin and Range. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981.

The customer is never wrong.

Cesar Ritz

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Ritz, Cesar. Quoted in Piccadilly to Pall Mall: Manners, Morals and Man, by Ralph Nevill and Charles Edward Jerningham. Duckworth & Co, 1908.

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Biko, Steve. "Black Souls in White Skins?" SASO newsletter, July/August 1970.

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Biko, Steve. "Black Souls in White Skins?" I Write What I Like: Selected Writings, edited by Aelred Stubbs. University of Chicago Press, 2002.

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A Bronx Tale. Directed by Robert De Niro, Price Entertainment/TriBeCa Productions, 1993.

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Mencken, Henry Louis. H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010, ch. 16, sec. 2. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1919.

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City Slickers. Directed by Ron Underwood, Castle Rock Entertainment/Face Productions/Nelson Entertainment, 1991.

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

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Double Indemnity. Directed by Billy Wilder, Paramount Pictures, 1944.

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Friedman, Milton. "The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community." Hoover Pacific Coast Seminar Dinner. 25 Oct. 1983, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Directed by Jim Sharman, Michael White Productions, 1975.

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Wodehouse, P. G. "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest." Carry On, Jeeves. Herbert Jenkins, 1925. Originally published in Saturday Evening Post, 9 Dec. 1916.

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Bukowski, Charles. Interviewed by Elisa Leonelli. 1981.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

Brooks Stevens

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Stevens, Brooks. Quoted in The Waste Makers, by Vance Packard. Simon & Schuster, 1960, ch. 6.