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Carter, Jimmy. "The Playboy Interview with Jimmy Carter." Interviewed by Robert Scheer. Playboy Magazine, 1 Nov. 1976.

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Bryant, William Cullen. "A Scene on the Banks of the Hudson." Poems. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839, st. 3.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

Edwin Hubble

The Exploration of Space

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Hubble, Edwin. “The Exploration of Space.” Harper’s Magazine, May 1929.

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Miller, Henry. "Creative Death." The Wisdom of the Heart. New Directions Books, 1941.

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Millay, Edna St. Vincent. "What Lips My Lips Have Kissed." The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems. Harper & Brothers, 1923, I. 1.

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Saunders, George. Convocation speech for the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University. 11 May 2013, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA.

Once I built a railroad, now it's done.
Brother, can you spare a dime?

Yip Harburg

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Harburg, E. Y. "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" Americana. Composed by Jay Gorney. 1932, Shubert Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.

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Niebuhr, Reinhold. The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944.

We campaign in poetry. But when we're elected we're forced to govern in prose.

Mario Cuomo

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Cuomo, Mario. "E Pur Si Muove." Chubb Fellowship lecture. 1 Feb. 1985, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

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Speckled Snake. Speech delivered at a council of Indian chiefs. 20 June 1829, USA.

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Speckled Snake. Quoted in A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present, written by Howard Zinn. Routledge, 2015, ch. 7.

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Silverstein, Shel. "Listen to the Mustn’ts." Where the Sidewalk Ends. Harper & Row, 1974, I. 1.

Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is women.

Charles R. Johnson

Middle Passage

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Johnson, Charles R. Middle Passage. Atheneum Publishers, 1990.

Don’t worry where we end up. Ending-up’s not real. The life we build, we never stop creating.

Jimmy Eat World

Delivery

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Jimmy Eat World. "Delivery." Surviving. RCA Records, 2019.

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The Times of Harvey Milk. Directed by Rob Epstein, Pacific Arts/Black Sand Productions, 1984.

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Pound, Ezra. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. The Ovid Press, 1920, pt. 1, poem 4.

Nothing haunts like the things we don't say.

Mitch Albom

Have a Little Faith

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Albom, Mitch. Have a Little Faith: A True Story. Hachette Books/Hyperion, 2009.

Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born.

Robert Ardrey

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Ardrey, Robert. African Genesis: A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man. Atheneum, 1961.

The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss.

John Nance Garner

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Garner, John Nance. Comment to Lyndon B. Johnson on the vice presidency. c. 1964.

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Morrison, Jim. Interview. PBS Studios, 1969.