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When We Were Kings. Directed by Leon Gast. Performed by Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. Gramercy Pictures, Jan. 1996. Originally a press conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. 17 Sept. 1974, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, NY, USA.

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Twain, Mark. A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1889, ch. 20.

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Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, edited by Henry B. Wonham. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018, ch. 20.

Father, father
We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate.

Marvin Gaye

What's Going On

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Gaye, Marvin. "What's Going On." Written by Al Cleveland and Renaldo Benson and Marvin Gaye. What's Going On. Tamla Records, 1971.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1933, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "First Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, March 4, 1933." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Apology for Printers," The Pennsylvania Gazette, 10 June 1731.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Apology for Printers." Benjamin Franklin: Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body and Early Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

No matter how a man alone ain't got no bloody fucking chance.

Ernest Hemingway

To Have and Have Not

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Hemingway, Ernest. To Have and Have Not. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937, ch. 23.

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Keller, Helen. Letter to Reverend Phillips Brooks. 8 June 1891.

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Eliot, T. S. "The Waste Land." The Criterion, Oct. 1922, pt. 1.

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Eliot, T. S. "The Waste Land." The Waste Land and Other Poems. Vintage, 2021, pt. 1.

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O'Keefe, Georgia. “Georgia O’Keeffe at 90." Interviewed by Mary Lynn Kotz. Art News, Dec. 1977.

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Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Alfred A. Knopf, 1927, bk. 9, ch. 6.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 31. Originally from Notebook, c. 1897

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to John Holmes. 22 Apr. 1820.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "John Holmes, April 22, 1820." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence & His Public and Private Letters, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

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Reagan, Ronald. Spoken during presidential campaign debate. Campaign debate. 21 Sept. 1980, Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. "The Arsenal of Democracy." Fireside Chat. 29 Dec. 1940, Diplomatic Reception Room, White House, Washington, DC, USA. Radio broadcast.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Nobel Lecture." Les Prix Nobel en 1964. [The Nobel Peace Prize 1964.] 11 Dec. 1964, Auditorium of the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 35. Originally from Notebook, c. 1904.

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Jefferson, Thomas [published anonymously]. Notes on the State of Virginia. Paris: Philippe Denis Pierres, 1785, query 17.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia, edited by Frank Shuffelton. Penguin Classics, 1998, query 17.

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Madison, James. Political Observations. Philadelphia, 20 Apr. 1795.

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Madison, James. "War and Republicanism; from Political Observations, April 20, 1795." Selected Writings of James Madison, edited by Ralph Ketcham. Hackett Publishing Company, 2006, ch. 57.

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Truth, Sojourner. Speech in Ohio. Woman's convention. May 1851, Akron, Ohio, USA.

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Truth, Sojourner. "Ain't I a Woman?" Great Speeches by African Americans, edited by James Daley. Dover Publications, 2006.

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Kerouac, Jack. The Dharma Bums. Viking Press, 1958, ch. 5.