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Anonymous woman quoted in Fear of Flying, written by Erica Jong. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.

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This is Spinal Tap. Directed by Rob Reiner, Spinal Tap Prod., 1984.

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Robeson, Paul. "The Artist Must Take Sides." National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief in aid of the Spanish Refugee Children. 24 June 1937, Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK.

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Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. Simon & Schuster, 1987.

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Reagan, Ronald. Address to British Parliament. Parliament meeting. 8 June 1982, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Stagecoach. Directed by John Ford, Walter Wanger Productions, 1939.

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Amelia E. Barr

The Belle of Bowling Green

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Barr, Amelia E. The Belle of Bowling Green. Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1904.

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The Producers. Directed by Mel Brooks, Crossbow Productions, AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1967.

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A Man for All Seasons. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Highland Films, 1966.

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Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940, bk. 1.

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Chesterton, G.K. "Our Note Book." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 34, Ignatius Press, 1991. Originally published by Illustrated London Times, 5 May 1928.

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Stella Benson

This is the End

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Benson, Stella. This is the End. Macmillian, 1917.

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The Warrors. Directed by Walter Hill, Lawrence Gordon Productions, 1979.

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Pasternak, Boris. До́ктор Жива́го [Dr. Zhivago]. Feltrinelli, 1957, pt. 2, ch. 9, sect. 14.

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Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Vintage International, 2011, pt. 2, ch. 9, sect. 14.

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Kissinger, Henry. "The Viet Nam Negotiations." Foreign Affairs, Jan. 1969.

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Bush, George H. W. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1989, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Ford, Gerald. Presidential address to a joint session of Congress. Joint session of Congress. 12 Aug. 1974, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Thomas, Clarence. Quoted in The New York Times. 12 Oct. 1991. Originally a statement before the Senate Judiciary Committee. 11 Oct. 1991, Washington, DC, USA.

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Directed by John Hughes, Hughes Entertainment, 1987.

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Chesterton, G.K. "The English Graves." The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses. Cecil Palmer, 1922, I. 18.