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

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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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.

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Maugham, William Somerset. The Summing Up. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1938, ch. 13.

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Trollope, Anthony. An Autobiography. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1883, ch. 16.

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Trollope, Anthony. "An Autobiography." An Autobiography and Other Writings, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2016, ch. 16.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death... I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

Bill Shankly

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Shankly, Bill. Guardian. 24 Dec. 1973.

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Hazlitt, William. "On Going a Journey." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 2, London: H. Colburn.

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Hazlitt, William. "On Going a Journey." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt, edited by Duncan Wu. Vol. 6, Routledge, 2020.

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Pattison, Mark. Isaac Casaubon, 1559-1614. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875, ch. 10.

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MacMillan, Harold. Speech at the 50th anniversary of the Union Parliament. 3 Feb. 1960, Cape Colony Parliament, Capetown, South Africa, Africa.

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Trevelyan, George Macaulay. English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria. Longmans, Green and Company, 1942, ch. 18.

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Chesterton, G.K. "Charles II." Twelve Types: A Collection of Biographies. Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902.

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Dean, Tacita. Colour: Documents of Contemporary Art, edited by David Batchelor. MIT Press, 2008, p. 235.

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Pugin, Augustus Welby. True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture. J. Weale, 1841.

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Raleigh, Walter Alexander. "Wishes of an Elderly Man, Wished at a Garden Party, June 1914." Laughter from a Cloud. Constable, 1923, I. 1.

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Raleigh, Walter Alexander. Wishes of an Elderly Man Wished at a Garden-Party, June 1914. Midsummer Press, 1983, I. 1.

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Beerbohm, Max. "Laughter." And Even Now. William Heinemann, 1920.