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Douglas, William O. United States, Supreme Court. Griswold v. Connecticut. United States Reports, vol. 381, 7 June 1965, pp. 479–531. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/381/479/.

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Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough. London: The Macmillan Company, 1922, ch. 18, sect. 3.

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Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Oxford University Press, 1998, ch. 18, sect. 3.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Towne v. Eisner. United States Reports, vol. 245, 7 Jan. 1918, pp. 418-427. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/245/418/.

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Heinlein, Robert A. "The Tale of the Twins Who Weren't." Time Enough for Love. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.

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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander. В круге первом [In the First Circle]. Collins & Harvill Press/‎Harper & Row, 1968, ch. 87.

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Morita, Akio. Interviewed by U.K. Sunday Telegraph. c. 1988.

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Poincare, Henri. La science et l'hypothese [Science and Hypothesis]. Flammarion, 1902, introduction.

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Poincare, Henri. Science and Hypothesis: The Complete Text, translated by Melanie Frappier, Andrea Smith and David J. Stump, edited by Melanie Frappier and David J. Stump. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, preface.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

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Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert. Quoted in The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas, written by Irving John Good. Heinemann, 1962, ch. 1, sect. 6.

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Bauby, Jean-Dominique. Le Scaphandre et le Papillon [The Diving Bell and the Butterfly]. Editions Robert Laffont, 1997, prologue.

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James, William. "The Present Dilemma in Philosophy." Nov. 1906, Lowell Institute, Boston, MA, USA. Lecture.

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James, William. "The Present Dilemma in Philosophy." Pragmatism. Dover Publications, 2018.

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Sterling, Bruce. Speech in Houston. Social Work Futures Conference. 23 May 1994, Houston, TX, USA.

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Markham, Beryl. West with the Night. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942, ch. 11.

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Decter, Midge. The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation. Coward McCann & Geoghegan, 1972, pt. 2, ch. 2.

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Hand, Learned. "The Contribution of an Independent Judiciary to Civilization." 250th Anniversary of the Founding of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. 21 Nov. 1942, Boston, MA, USA.

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Mansfield, Katherine. Journal entry. 10 Oct. 1922.

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Mansfield, Katherine. The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks. Vol. 2, Lincoln University Press, 1997.

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Malraux, Andre. Antimemoires [Anti-memoirs]. Gallimard, 1967, sect. 2.

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Schmich, Mary. "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young." Chicago Tribune, 1 June 1997.

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Leonard, Elmore. Get Shorty. Delacorte Press, 1990, ch. 9.

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

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Drucker, Peter. "Managing for Business Effectiveness." Harvard Business Review, 1963.

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Jackson, George. Letter to Greg Armstrong. 10 June 1970.