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The Book of Common Prayer (American). Episcopal Church, 1928.

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Graves, Robert. "Sick Love." Poems 1929. Seizin Press, 1929, l. 10-12.

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Graves, Robert. "Sick Love." The Complete Poems: In One Volume. Penguin Books, 2003, l. 10-12.

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Russell, Bertrand. "The Recrudescence of Puritanism." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

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Heinlein, Robert A. "Second Intermission." Time Enough for Love. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

Herbert A. Simon

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Simon, Herbert. "Designing Organizations for an Information Rich World." Computers, Communications, and the Public Interest, edited by Martin Greenberger. Johns Hopkins Press, 1971.

The dragon-green, the luminous, the dark, the serpent-haunted sea.

James Elroy Flecker

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Flecker, James Elroy. "The Gates of Damascus." The Collected Poems of James Elroy Flecker. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1916, I. 33.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

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Kay, Alan. Speech in Palo Alto. c. 1971, Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

When a lovely flame dies,
Smoke gets in your eyes.

Otto Harbach

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

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Harbach, Otto. "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes." Roberta. Composed by Jerome Kern. 1933, New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City, NY, USA.

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Zamyatin, Yevgeny. "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters." A Soviet Heretic, translated by Mirra Ginsburg. University of Chicago Press, 1970. Originally published in 1923.

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Hoffer, Eric. "On Nature and Human Nature." Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer. Harper & Row, 1982.

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Warren, Earl. United States, Supreme Court. Miranda v. Arizona. United States Reports, vol. 384, 13 June 1966, pp. 436-545. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/384/436/.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

M.F.K. Fisher

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Fisher, Mary Frances Kennedy. An Alphabet for Gourmets. The Viking Press, 1949.

Art is a way of recognizing oneself, which is why it will always be modern.

Louise Bourgeois

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Kuspit, Donald Burton. Interviewed by Louise Bourgeois. 1988.

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Mizner, Wilson. Quoted in The Legendary Mizners, written by Alva Johnston. Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953, ch. 4.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Asquith

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Asquith, Herbert. Quoted in Observer. 15 Apr. 1923.

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London, Jack. The Call of the Wild. Macmillan, 1903, ch. 3.

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London, Jack. "The Call of the Wild." The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories. Signet, 2009, ch. 3.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.

Howell Forgy

Said at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

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Forgy, Howell. Comment to men during the Pearl Harbor attack. 7 Dec. 1941, Pearl Harbor, Oahu, HI, USA.

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Airplane! Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker. Paramount Pictures/Howard W. Koch Productions, 1980.

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"Angel." The Wonder Years, written by Neal Marlens and Carol Black, directed by Art Wolff, season 1, episode 4, The Black/Marlens Company and New World Television, 1988.

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Nozick, Robert. Anarchy, State, and Utopia. Basic Books, 1974, preface.