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Eliot, T. S. The Cocktail Party. 1949, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 1, sc. 5.

We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it.

Joe Namath

Predicting a Jets Super Bowl victory.

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Namath, Joe. Namath's guarantee to win Superbowl III. Awards dinner. 9 Jan. 1969, Miami Touchdown Club, Miami, FL, USA.

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Namath, Joe. All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters. Little, Brown and Company, 2019.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Elizabeth Appell

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Appell, Elizabeth. “Risk.” John F Kennedy University Newsletter, Jan. 1979.

I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.

Muriel Strode

Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers

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Strode, Muriel. "Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers." The Open Court, 1903.

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Parker, Dorothy. New Yorker. c. 25 July 1931.

To remember everything is a condition of madness.

Brian Friel

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Friel, Brian. Translations, dir. Art O'Briain. 23 Sept. 1980,Guildhall, Derry, Northern Ireland, UK, act 3.

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Parkinson, C. Northcote. The Law of Delay: Interviews and Outerviews. John Murray, 1970, ch. 13.

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Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965, ch. 7.

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Fuller, Richard Buckminster. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Simon and Schuster, 1969, ch. 4.

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The Green Mile. Directed by Frank Darabont, Castle Rock Entertainment/Darkwoods Productions, 1999.

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DeLillo, Don. Underworld. Scribner, 1997, prologue.

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Zangwill, Israel. The Melting Pot. 5 Oct. 1908, Columbia Theatre, Washington, DC, USA, act 1.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of observance of procedural safeguards.

Felix Frankfurter

McNabb v. United States

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Frankfurter, Felix. United States, Supreme Court. McNabb v. United States. United States Reports, vol. 318, 1 Mar. 1943, pp. 339-349. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/318/332/.

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Stone, Elizabeth. Quoted in "No Kids." Written by Ellen Cantarow. The Village Voice, c. 1985.

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Havel, Vaclav. Letter to Olga Havlova. 5 Oct. 1981.

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Fogerty, John. "Fortunate Son." Performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Willy and the Poor Boys. Fantasy Records, 1969.

The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

J.B.S. Haldane

Reflection on the fact that there are 400,000 species of beetles, as opposed to 8,000 species of mammals.

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Haldane, J. B. S. Speech given to the British Interplanetary Society. 1951, London, England, UK.

Once we have power, we shall never again give it up, unless we are carried out as corpses from our offices.

Paul Joseph Goebbels

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Goebbels, Joseph. Diary entry. 6 Aug. 1932.

A bird does not sing
because he has an answer.
He sings
because he has a song.

Joan Walsh Anglund

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Anglund, Joan Walsh. A Cup of Sun: A Book of Poems. Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1967.