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The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Lindbergh, Anne Morrow. Gift from the Sea. Pantheon Books, 1955, ch. 2.

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Warren, Earl. United States, Supreme Court. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. United States Reports, vol. 347, 17 May 1954, pp. 483-496. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/347/483/.

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Hughes, Langston. “Dreams.” The World Tomorrow, May 1923, I. 1.

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Hughes, Langston. “Dreams.” The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on Art, Race, Politics, and World Affairs. Vol. 9, University of Missouri Press, 2001.

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Goldwater, Barry. Campaign speech. 21 Oct. 1964.

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Sontag, Susan. "Freak Show." The New York Review of Books, 15 Nov. 1973.

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?

John Cage

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Cage, John. "Communication." Composition as a Process lecture series. 1958, Darmstadt, Germany.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

Margaret Millar

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Millar, Margaret. The Weak-Eyed Bat. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1942, ch. 8.

The law may... Depend on what the judge has had for breakfast.

Robert M. Hutchins

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Hutchins, Robert M. "The Autobiography of an Ex-Law Student." The University of Chicago Law Review, Mar. 1934. Originally a speech at The Association of American Law Schools meeting. Dec. 1933, Chicago, IL, USA.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

Barbara Wand

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Wand, Barbara. Spoken at the Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet conference. United Nations Conference on the Human Environment. June 1972, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Russell, Bertrand. "On the Value of Skepticism." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

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Lec, Stanislaw Jerzy. Myśli nieuczesane nowe [More Unkempt Thoughts]. The Curtis Publishing Company, 1964.

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Huxley, Aldous. Ends and Means (an Enquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization). Chatto & Windus, 1937, ch. 8.

The technocratic imperative: "What can be done must be done."

Theodore Roszak

The Making of the Counter Culture

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Roszak, Theodore. The Making of the Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society. Doubleday & Co., 1969, appendix.

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Forster, E.M. Howards End. Edward Arnold, 1910, ch. 2.

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Hedberg, Mitch. Strategic Grill Locations. 7 Sept. 1999, The Laff Stop Comedy Club, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Kinsey, Alfred C. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. W. B. Saunders Co., 1948, ch. 21.

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Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 2.

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Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 2.

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Yeats, William Butler. "Vacillation." The Winding Stair and Other Poems. The Macmillan Company, 1933, pt. 5, st. 2.

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Yeats, William Butler. "Vacillation." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 5, st. 2.

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Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Random House, 1961, pt. 1, ch. 2.

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Crichton, Michael. Jurassic Park. Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.