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My point is rock and roll, by its very nature, leads to a breakdown in discipline.

Mr. Holland's Opus

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Mr. Holland's Opus. Directed by Stephen Herek, Hollywood Pictures/Interscope Communications/PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, 1995.

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Mencken, Henry Louis. "Arcana Coelestia." A Mencken Chrestomathy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1949, ch. 30.

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Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. Viking Penguin/Methuen Publishing, 1985, foreword.

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Shields, Carol. Larry's Party. Knopf Canada, 1997, ch. 9.

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Twain, Mark. The Mysterious Stranger. Harper & Brothers, 1916, ch. 11

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Twain, Mark. "The Mysterious Stranger." Mark Twain: The Gilded Age and Later Novels, edited by Hamlin Hill. Library of America, 2002, ch. 11.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Directed by David Hand, Walt Disney Productions, 1937.

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Adams, Douglas. Mostly Harmless. William Heinemann/Harmony Books, 1992, ch. 12.

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Tutu, Desmond. Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa Report. Vol. 1, The Commission, 1998, foreword.

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Watts, Alan. Play to Live: Selected Seminars. And Books, 1982.

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Kissinger, Henry. "Reflections on Containment." Foreign Affairs, June 1994.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H.P. Lovecraft

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Lovecraft, Howard Phillips. "The Call of Cthulhu." Weird Tales, Feb. 1928.

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Lovecraft, Howard Phillips. "The Call of Cthulhu." The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, edited by S. T. Joshi. Penguin Classics, 2016.

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"The Way of the Intercepting Fist." Longstreet, written by Stirling Silliphant, season 1, episode 1, Edling Productions, 1971.

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Chesterton, G.K. "The Poet and the Lunatics." Nash's Magazine, 1921, ch. 3.

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Chesterton, G.K. The Poet and the Lunatics. Dover, 2010, ch. 3.

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Nixon, Richard. Associated Press Managing Editors Annual Conference. 17 Nov. 1973, Disney's Contemporary Resort, Orlando, FL. Q and A Session.

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros.-First National, 1948.

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Arendt, Hannah. "On Violence." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972, ch. 3. Originally published as "A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence." by The New York Review, 27 Feb. 1969.

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Waugh, Evelyn. Diary Entry. 26 March 1962.

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

Philip K. Dick

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

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Dick, Philip K. Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. Doubleday, 1974, ch. 15.

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Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Crisis, June 1921, I. 5.

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Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, I. 5.

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Boyz n the Hood. Directed by John Singleton, Columbia Pictures, 1991.