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Frost, Robert. "Happiness Makes Up in Height for What it Lacks in Length." A Witness Tree. Henry Holt and Company, 1942.

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Baraka, Amiri (aka Imamu Amiri Baraka). "What Does Non-Violence Mean?" Midstream. Dec. 1963, vol. IX, no. 4.

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

Brooks Atkinson

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Atkinson, Brooks. Once Around the Sun. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1951.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 31.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 31.

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Bradbury, Ray. Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity. Joshua Odell Editions, 1990.

Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure?

David Foster Wallace

Gourmet

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Wallace, David Foster. "Consider the Lobster." Gourmet, Aug. 2004.

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Wallace, David Foster. "Consider the Lobster." Consider the Lobster and Other Essays. Back Bay Books, 2007.

A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day.

Irving Berlin

A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody

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Berlin, Irving. "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody." Ziegfield Follies of 1919. Performed by John Steel. 1919, New York City, NY, USA.

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James, William. "The Will to Believe." Philosophical Club of Yale University. Apr. 1896, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Lecture.

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James, William. "The Will to Believe." William James: Essays and Lectures, edited by Richard Kamber. Routledge, 2016.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "To: Scottie Fitzgerals, October 5, 1940." Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Scribner, 1995. Originally from Letter to Frances Scott Fitzgerald, 5 Oct. 1940.

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Bush, George H. W. State of the Union Address. Joint session of the United States Congress. 28 Jan. 1992, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Irving, Washington. "Rip Van Winkle." The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. New York: C. S. Van Winkle, 23 June 1819–July 1820.

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Irving, Washington. "Rip Van Winkle." The Sketch-Book, edited by Susan Manning. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Nash, Ogden. "The Kitten." The Face Is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash. Garden City Publishing Company, 1941.

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Walker, Alice. "Did This Happen to Your Mother? Did Your Sister Throw Up a Lot?" Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning. The Dial Press, 1979, I. 24.

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Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. "Protest." Poems of Problems. W. B. Conkey Company, 1914.

And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days.

James Russell Lowell

The Vision of Sir Launful

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Lowell, James Russell. "The Vision of Sir Launfal." The Vision of Sir Launfal and Other Poems. Cambridge: George Nichols, 1848, st. 5.

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Adams, John. Letter to Abigail Adams. 3 July 1776.

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Adams, John. My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor. Belknap Press, 2010.

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Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's Rainbow. Viking Press, 1973.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

James Otis

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Otis, James. Quoted in The Life of James Otis, written by William Tudor, Jr. Wells and Lilly, 1823.

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Truman, Harry S. Interviewed by Margaret Truman. Person to Person, CBS. 27 May 1955.

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Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, ch. 6.