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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. Speech at the Grand Canyon. 6 May 1903, The Grand Canyon, AZ, USA.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The Natural Wonder of the Grand Canyon." Great Speeches of the 20th Century, edited by Bob Blaisdell. Dover Publications, 2011.

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Herr, Michael. "Colleagues." Dispatches. Alfred A. Knopf, 1977, pt. 3.

At the stroke of the midnight hour, while the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Said just prior to the moment of India's independence from the British Empire.

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Nehru, Jawaharlal. "Tryst with Destiny." Indian Constituent Assembly. 14 Aug. 1947, New Delhi, India. Speech.

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1953, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Carter, James E. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1977, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Rauschenberg, Robert. Quoted in Rauschenberg, by Barbara Rose. Vintage Books/Elizabeth Avedon Editions, 1987, p. 85.

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Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Hearsts's International Library, 1914.

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Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Vintage Classics, 2018.

I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

Lucian Freud

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Freud, Lucian. Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere. Interviewed by Michael Kimmelman. Random House, 1998, p. 109.

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Chagall, Marc. "Painting: Midsummer Night's Dreamer." Time Magazine, 30 Jul. 1965.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while.

Aleister Crowley

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Crowley, Aleister. The Spirit of Solitude. Mandrake Press, 1929.

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Einstein, Albert. "Albert Einstein." Living Philosophies. Simon & Schuster, 1931, ch. 1.

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Matisse, Henri. Quoted in "Henri Matisse." Les Cahiers d'aujourd'hui, written by Marcel Sembat. Paris: George Besson, 1913, no. 4.

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Matisse, Henri. Quoted in Matisse the Master, written by Hilary Spurling. Vol. 2, Penguin Classics, 2006.

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The Big Lebowski. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Working Title Films, 1998.

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Einstein, Albert. Speech at the California Institute of Technology. 16 Feb. 1931, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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Nash, Ogden. "The Cow." Free Wheeling. Simon and Schuster, 1931.

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Selassie, Haile. University graduation speech. 2 July 1963, University of Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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Kerouac, Jack. Big Sur. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1962, ch. 9.

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The Great Escape. Directed by John Sturges, The Mirisch Company, 1963.

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Williams, Tennessee. Camino Real. New Directions, 1953, block 10.