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Reynolds, Joshua. "Discourse II." 11 Dec. 1769, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, UK. Lecture.

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Ricardo, David. On Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. London: John Murray, 1817.

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Ricardo, David. The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. Dover Publications, 2004.

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Oldenburg, Claes and Germano Celant. Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology. Guggenheim Museum Publications, 1995, p. 13.

The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

Max Weber

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Weber, Max. "Politiks wie Beruf [Politics As a Vocation]." 1917, Munich University, Munich, Germany. Lecture.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

John Ruskin

Unto This Last

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Ruskin, John. "Unto this Last." Cornhill Magazine, Aug. - Dec. 1860.

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Ruskin, John. "Unto This Last." The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 17, Cambridge University Press, 2010, no. 2.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Requiem." Underwoods. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons/London: Chatto & Windus, 1887, I. 1.

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Whitehead, Alfred North. "Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought." Lecture before the Mathematical Society. 1925, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.

A.A. Milne

The Record Lie

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Milne, A. A. "The Record Lie." If I May. Methuen, 1920.

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George, David Lloyd. The Observer. 8 Jan. 1933.

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Colette. Le Pur et l'impur and Ces Plaisirs [The Pure and the Impure and These Pleasures]. J. Ferenczi & fils, 1932, ch. 9.

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Colette. The Pure and the Impure. NYRB Classics, 2000, ch. 9.

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Wellesley, Arthur. Spoken during a conversion with Philip Henry Stanhope. 2 Nov. 1831, England, UK.

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Cartier-Bresson, Henri. The Decisive Moment. Simon and Schuster, 1952.

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Adams, Douglas. "Little Dongly Things." The Salmon of Doubt. William Heinemann/Pocket Books, 2002.

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Kundera, Milan. Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli [The Book of Laughter and Forgetting]. Gallimard, 1979.

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Kundera, Milan. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, translated by Aaron Asher. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999.

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

I would not regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier.

Arthur Harris

In reference to the UK's continued strategic bombing of German cities during World War II.

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Harris, Arthur. Letter to Norman Bottomly. 29 Mar. 1945.

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Huxley, Aldous. Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist. Chatto & Windus/George H. Doran, 1925.

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Arp, Jean. Arp on Arp: Poems, Essays, Memories, edited by Marcel Jean. Viking Press, 1972, p. 327.

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McEwan, Ian. "Love and then Oblivion. Love was all they had against their murderers." The Guardian, 15 Sept. 2001.

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Bryce, James. The American Commonwealth. Vol. 1, London: Macmillan and Co., 1888, ch. 8.