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Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations. Vol. 1, London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, edited by Edwin Cannan. The Modern Library, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. London: John Murray, 1859, ch. 14.

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Darwin, Charles. The Origin of the Species, edited by William Bynum. Penguin, 2009, ch. 14.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Die fröhliche Wissenschaft. [The Gay Science]. 1882. Translated by Walter Kaufman, Vintage Books, March 1974.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Gay Science. Translated by Walter Kaufman, Vintage Books, 1974, aphorism, 261.

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei. [The Communist Manifesto]. 1848.

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Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto. Translated by Samuel Moore and Friedrich Engels. Penguin Classics, 2002.

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Plato. Theatetus. c. 400 B. C., l. 155d.

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky.

John Lennon

Imagine

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Lennon, John. "Imagine." Imagine. Apple, 1971.

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Plato. Apology. 399 BC, 38a.

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Plato. "Apology." Plato: Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo. Translated by Christopher Emlyn-Jones. And William Preddy. Harvard UP, 2017, 38a5-6.

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Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei. [The Communist Manifesto]. 1848.

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Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto. Translated by Samuel Moore and Friedrich Engels. Penguin Classics, 2002.

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. 1651.

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan. Penguin, 2017.

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Diderot, Denis. Les Eleutheromanes. 1772.

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Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." The Dial, Nov. 1919.

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Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." The Major Works. Oxford UP, 2008.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 1, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 4.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward. Richelieu. 1839, act 2, sc. 2.

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Sophocles. Antigone. 441 BC, l 333.

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Sophocles. "Ajax." The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus. Translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin, 2000, l. 333.

Man is the measure of all things.

Protagoras

Quoted in Theaetetus, by Plato

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Plato. Theatetus. c. 400 B. C., l. 152a.

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Plato. Theatetus. Translated by Robin H. Waterfield. Penguin, 1987, l. 152a.

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Churchill, Winston. House of Commons. 11 Nov. 1947. The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Address.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Du contrat social; ou Principes du droit politique [The Social Contract]. 1762.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Of the Social Contract." Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings. Translated by Quintin Hoare. Penguin, 2012.

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." Sonnets from the Portuguese. 1850, sonnet XLIII.

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Marx, Karl. Kritik des Gothaer Programms [Critique of the Gotha Programme]. 1891, pt. 1.

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Marx, Karl. Critique of the Gotha Program. Translated by Kevin B. Anderson. PM P, 2022, pt. 1.