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Pirsig, Robert M. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. William Morrow and Company, 1974.

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Ginsberg, Allen. "Graffiti 12th Cubicle Men's Room Syracuse Airport." The Fall of America: Poems of These States. City Lights Bookstore, 1973.

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Sartre, Jean Paul. Le etre et le neant: Essai d'ontologie phenomenologique [Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology]. Librairie Gallimard, 1943, pt. 4, ch. 1.

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Sartre, Jean Paul. Being and Nothingness, translated by Sarah Richmond. Washington Square Press, 2021, pt. 4, ch. 1.

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Wall Street. Directed by Oliver Stone, American Entertainment Partners/American Films, 1987.

You can't be serious!

John McEnroe

To a line judge at Wimbledon.

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McEnroe, John. Quoted in N.Y. Post. 22 June 1981. Originally a comment to empire at Wimbledon tennis tournament. 22 June 1981, London, England, UK.

All art is biographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Federico Fellini

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Fellini, Federico. Quoted in The Atlantic, Dec. 1965.

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Berlin, Isaiah. "Two Concepts of Liberty." 31 Oct. 1958, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.

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Berlin, Isaiah. Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom: ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ 50 Years Later, edited by Bruce Baum and Robert Nichols. Routledge, 2015.

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Goering, Hermann. Directive to Reinhard Heydrich. 31 July 1941.

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Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. University of Chicago Press, 1962, ch. 1.

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Ibarruri, Dolores. Radio broadcast. 19 July 1936, Madrid, Spain.

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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi. Directed by Richard Marquand, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1983.

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Orwell, George. "The English Revolution." The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius. Searchlight Books, edited by T. R. Fyvel and George Orwell. Secker & Warburg, 1941, pt. 3, sec. 2.

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Orwell, George. "The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius." 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. 17, pt. 3, sec. 2.

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Gershwin, Ira. "It Ain't Necessarily So." Porgy and Bess. Composed by George Gershwin. 1935, Colonial Theatre, Boston, MA, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. Democratic National Convention. 27 June 1936, Philadelphia Convention Hall and Civic Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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Eco, Umberto. Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose]. Bompiani, 1980.

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Eco, Humberto. The Name of the Rose, translated by William Weaver. HarperVia, 2014.

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Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Grant Richards, 1903, ch. 14.

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Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Everyman's Library, 1993, ch. 14.

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

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Auden, W. H. "September 1, 1939." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940. Originally published in The New Republic, 18 Oct. 1939.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. "Advice to a Great-Grandson." His 90th birthday celebration. 1958, The Roosevelt Hotel, New York, NY, USA. Address.

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Home Alone. Directed by Chris Columbus, Hughes Entertainment , 1990.