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Harding, William G. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1921, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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James, William. "Mysticism." Gifford Lecture. c. 1902, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. Lecture.

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James, William. "Mysticism." The Varieties of Religious Experience, edited by Martin E. Marty. Penguin Classics, 1982.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

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Merton, Thomas. No Man Is an Island. Clonmore & Reynolds/Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Stubby Currence

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Anonymous. Quoted in Oklahoma City Star. 1934.

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Gellhorn, Martha. "Letter to Sandy Gellhorn, 13 Oct. 1969." Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn, edited by Caroline Moorehead. Holt, 2007. Originally a letter to Sandy Gellhorn, 13 Oct. 1969.

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Close, Chuck. Quoted in Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere. Random House, 1998. Originally spoken during an interview with Michael Kimmelman, 1998.

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McPhee, John. Basin and Range. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981.

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Mencken, Henry Louis. H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010, ch. 16, sec. 2. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1919.

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Marshall, John. United States, Supreme Court. Worcester v. Georgia. United States Reports, vol. 31, 3 Mar. 1832, pp. 515-597. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/31/515/.

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Harding, William G. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1921, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Friedman, Milton. "The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community." Hoover Pacific Coast Seminar Dinner. 25 Oct. 1983, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

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Bukowski, Charles. Interviewed by Elisa Leonelli. 1981.

I don't paint out of responsibility. I paint out of need.

Jim Dine

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Dine, Jim. "Lone Wolf: An Interview with Jim Dine." Interviewed by Ilka Scobie. Artnet, 28 June 2010.

Diplomacy is to do and say
The nastiest thing in the nicest way.

Isaac Goldberg

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Goldberg, Isaac. The Reflex. Oct. 1927.

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Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. University of Chicago Press, 1962, ch. 1.

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Catt, Carrie Chapman. "Why We Ask for the Submission of an Amendment." U.S. Senate Committee meeting. 13 Feb. 1900, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

John Howard Payne

Home, Sweet Home

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Payne, John Howard. "Home, Sweet Home." Clari, or the Maid of Milan. Composed by Henry Bishop. 1823, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London, England, UK.

After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

A.S.W. Rosenbach

A Book Hunter's Holiday

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Rosenbach, A. S. W. A Book Hunter's Holiday. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936.

Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years.

Tallulah Bankhead

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Bankhead, Tallulah. Tallulah: My Autobiography. Harper & Bros./Victor Gollancz, 1952, ch. 4.