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Frost, Robert. "Happiness Makes Up in Height for What it Lacks in Length." A Witness Tree. Henry Holt and Company, 1942.

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Baraka, Amiri (aka Imamu Amiri Baraka). "What Does Non-Violence Mean?" Midstream. Dec. 1963, vol. IX, no. 4.

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

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Arendt, Hanna. Quoted in A Certain World: A Commonplace Book, written by W. H. Auden. Viking Press, 1970.

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Tagore, Rabindrath. Stray Birds. The Macmillan Company, 1916, no. 110.

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

Brooks Atkinson

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Atkinson, Brooks. Once Around the Sun. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1951.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 31.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 31.

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

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Bradbury, Ray. Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity. Joshua Odell Editions, 1990.

Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.

The Outlaw Josey Wales

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The Outlaw Josey Wales. Directed by Clint Eastwood, The Malpaso Company, 1976.

Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, that's life. Trying to make ends meet, you're a slave to money then you die.

The Verve

Bitter Sweet Symphony

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Ashcroft, Richard. "Bitter Sweet Symphony." Performed by The Verve. Urban Hymns. Hut Records, 1997.

A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day.

Irving Berlin

A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody

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Berlin, Irving. "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody." Ziegfield Follies of 1919. Performed by John Steel. 1919, New York City, NY, USA.

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De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Le Petit Prince [The Little Prince]. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943, ch. 1.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "To: Scottie Fitzgerals, October 5, 1940." Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Scribner, 1995. Originally from Letter to Frances Scott Fitzgerald, 5 Oct. 1940.

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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Directed by George Lucas, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1977.

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Bush, George H. W. State of the Union Address. Joint session of the United States Congress. 28 Jan. 1992, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Grant Richards, 1903, ch. 34.

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Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Everyman's Library, 1993, ch. 34.

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Orwell, George. "Looking Back on the Spanish War." New Road, June 1943, pt. 4.

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Orwell, George. "Looking Back on the Spanish War." The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell, vol. 2: My Country Right or Left 1940-1943, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 2007, no. 41, pt. 4.

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Nash, Ogden. "The Kitten." The Face Is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash. Garden City Publishing Company, 1941.