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Mencken, H. L. "Editorial." American Mercury, July 1928.

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Sumner, William Graham. Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals. Ginn & Company, 1906, ch. 1.

Patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

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Nathan, George Jean. Testament of a Critic. A. A. Knopf, 1931, bk. 1.

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Perot, Ross. Spoken at a presidential debate. Presidential debate. 15 Oct. 1992, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA.

This universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.

John H. Holmes

The Sensible Man's View of Religion

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Holmes, John H. The Sensible Man's View of Religion. Harper & Brothers, 1932, ch. 4.

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Mazey, Emil. Spoken at labor meeting of the United Automobile Workers. Labor meeting. 1946, Detroit, MI, USA.

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Douglas, William O. United States, Supreme Court. Gray v. Sanders. United States Reports, vol. 372, 17 June 1963, pp. 368-372. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/372/368/.

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Toffler, Alvin. "The Future as a Way of Life." Horizon Magazine, Summer 1965.

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Licklider, J. C. R. "Man-Computer Symbiosis." IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics, Mar. 1960.

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Whitman, Walt. "I Sing the Body Electric." Leaves of Grass. Self-published, 1855, sect. 8.

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Whitman, Walt. "I Sing the Body Electric." Leaves of Grass: The Complete 1855 and 1891-92 Editions. Library of America, 2011, sect. 8.

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Chappelle, Dave. Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly. HBO, 26 July 2000.

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, ch. 19.

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 19.

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. London: Chatto & Windus, 1884, ch. 23.

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Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, edited by R. Kent Rasmussen. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 23.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.

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Whitman, Walt. "Song of the Broad-Axe." Leaves of Grass. Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1881-82, sect. 4.

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Whitman, Walt. "Song of the Broad-Axe." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 4.

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United States Constitution. Amend. 7.

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The Constitution of the United States. The Constitution of the United States and The Declaration of Independence. Written by Delegates of The Constitutional Convention. Racehorse, 2016, amend. 7.

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Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1876, ch. 2.

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Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, edited by Peter Stoneley. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 2.

They're selling postcards of the hanging.

Bob Dylan

Desolation Row

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Dylan, Bob. "Desolation Row." Highway 61 Revisited. Columbia Records, 1965.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Random House, 1969.