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Hurston, Zora Neale. "How It Feels to Be Colored Me." World Tomorrow, May 1928.

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?

Michael Torke

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Torke, Michael. "Sayings of the Week." Observer, 23 Sept. 1990.

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.

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Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Vintage, 2023.

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Wilson, James Q. The Moral Sense. Simon & Schuster, 1993.

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Harding, Warren G. "Readjustment." Home Market Club meeting. 14 May 1920, Boston, MA, USA.

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Coolidge, Calvin. In conversation with Herbert Hoover. c. 1930.

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Coolidge, Calvin. Quoted in Coolidge: An American Enigma, written by Robert Sobel. Regnery History, 2000.

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Melville, Herman. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. New York: Wiley and Putnam/London: John Murray, 1846, ch. 4.

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Melville, Herman. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. Dover Publications, 2019, ch. 4.

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DeLillo, Don. Mao II. Scribner, 1991.

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Santayana, George. Dialogues in Limbo. Constable and Co. Ltd., 1925, ch. 5.

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 52.

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Mencken, Henry Louis. A Mencken Chrestomathy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1949, ch. 30. Originally published in A Little Book in C Major, published by John Lane Co., 1916, ch. 2.

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Santayana, George. The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, edited by Marianne S. Wokeck and Martin A. Coleman. Vol. 7, The MIT Press, 2011, bk. 1, introduction. Originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905.

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. "Chance for Peace." American Society for Newspaper Editors meeting. 16 Apr. 1953, Washington, DC, USA.

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Field, Marshall. Instruction to manager of his Chicago department store. c. 1906. Marshall Field Department Store, Chicago, IL, USA.

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Mencken, Henry Louis. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010, ch. 14, sec. 3. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1922.

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Heinlein, Robert A. "Second Intermission." Time Enough for Love. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

Herbert A. Simon

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Simon, Herbert. "Designing Organizations for an Information Rich World." Computers, Communications, and the Public Interest, edited by Martin Greenberger. Johns Hopkins Press, 1971.

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 174.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

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Kay, Alan. Speech in Palo Alto. c. 1971, Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

When a lovely flame dies,
Smoke gets in your eyes.

Otto Harbach

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

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Harbach, Otto. "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes." Roberta. Composed by Jerome Kern. 1933, New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City, NY, USA.