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Jung, Carl. "Problems of Modern Psychology." Modern Man in Search of a Soul, translated by Cary F. Baynes and William Stanley Dell. Kegen Paul, Trenche, Trubner & Co., 1933.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Martin Mulll

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Mull, Martin. Quoted in Detroit Free Press. 18 Feb. 1979.

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De Unamuno, Miguel. The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and in Peoples, translated by J. E. Crawford Flitch. Macmillan and Company, 1921, preface.

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A Bronx Tale. Directed by Robert De Niro, Price Entertainment/TriBeCa Productions, 1993.

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

Bessie Anderson Stanley

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Stanley, Bessie A. "Success." Brown Book Magazine, c. 1905.

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France, Anatole. L'Ile des Pingouins [Penguin Island]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1908, bk. 6, ch. 2.

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.

Ernest Rutherford

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Rutherford, Ernest. Quoted in Rutherford at Manchester, by J. B. Birks. Heywood and Company, 1962.

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MacArthur, Douglas. Statement on aid to Great Britain. 16 Sept. 1940.

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Getty, Jean Paul. How to Be Rich. Playboy Press, 1965.

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Nkrumah, Kwame. "Motion of Destiny." Revolutionary Path. Panaf, 1973. Originally an address called "Motion of Destiny." Gold Coast National Assembly. 10 July 1953, Accra, Ghana.

Selfhood begins with a walking away,
And love is proved in the letting go.

Cecil Day-Lewis

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Day-Lewis, Cecil. "Walking Away." The Gate, and Other Poems. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962, I. 19.

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Brand, Stewart. The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M. I. T. Viking, 1987, pt. 1, ch. 1.

But sport doesn’t build character....sports reveals character.

Heywood Hale Broun

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Broun, Heywood. Spoken during a speech in Ames, Iowa. Jan. 1974, Ames, IA, USA.

The Great Society created by steam and electricity may be a society, but it is no community.

John Dewey

The Public and its Problems

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Dewey, John. The Public and Its Problems. H. Holt and Company, 1927, ch. 3.

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Aladdin. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Feature Animation, 1992.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Law and the Court." Dinner of the Harvard Law Association of New York. 15 Feb. 1913, New York, NY, USA.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Law and the Court." The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, edited by Richard A. Posner. University of Chicago Press, 1997.

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Presley, Elvis. Heartbreak Hotel. Written with Tommy Durden and Elvis Presley. RCA Records, 1956.

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Vintage, 2023.

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Agnew, Spiro. Speech in New Orleans. Citizen's Testimonial Dinner. 19 Oct. 1969, New Orleans, LA, USA.