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"Misgivings." The Wire, written by David Simon and Eric Ellis Overmyer and Ed Burns, directed by Ernest R. Dickerson, season 4, episode 10, Blown Deadline Productions and Home Box Office, 2006.

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Chesterton, G.K. "Novels on the Great War." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 35, Ignatius Press, 1986. Originally published by Illustrated London News, 19 Apr. 1930.

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"What Is Dead May Never Die." Game of Thrones, written by George R.R. Martin and David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, directed by Alik Sakharov, season 2, episode 3, Home Box Office and Television 360 and Grok! Studio, 2012.

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Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. George H. Doran Company, 1915, ch. 122.

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Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. Signet, 2007, ch. 122.

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Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies. Fourth Estate/Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

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Lord Byron. "Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa." Letters and Journals. London: J. Johnson, c. 1830.

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Lord Byron. "Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa." The Collected Poems of Lord Byron. Wordsworth, 1994.

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Adams, Abigail. Letter to John Adams. 17 June 1782.

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Adams, Abigail. Quoted in Abigail and John Adams: The Americanization of Sensibility, written by G. J. Barker-Benfield. University of Chicago Press, 2010, ch. 8.

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Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. Quoted in Letter to the Earl of Harcourt. Written by Horace Walpole. 17 Sept. 1778.

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Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. 28 Nov. 1905, Court Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2.

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Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, act 3.

Alternative facts are not facts, they're falsehoods.

Chuck Todd

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Todd, Chuck. Interviewed by Kellyanne Conway. Meet the Press. NBC, 22 Jan. 2017.

It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Jeremy Bentham

A Fragment on Government

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Bentham, Jeremy. A Fragment on Government. London: T. Payne, P. Elmsly, and E. Brooke, 1776, preface.

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Bentham, Jeremy. "A Fragment on Government." A Comment on the Commentaries and A Fragment on Government, edited by J.H. Burns and H.L.A Hart. Clarendon Press, 2009, preface.

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Herbert, George. Jacula Prudentum, or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Microform. London: Humphrey Blunden, 1640.

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Herbert, George. "Outlandish Proverbs." Herbert: The Complete English Works, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater. Everyman's Library, 1995, no. 339.

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Steinem, Gloria. "Siserhood." New York, 20 Dec. 1971

Form ever follows function.

Louis Henri Sullivan

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Sullivan, Louis Henri. "The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered." Lippincott's Magazine, Mar. 1896.

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Ruskin, John. Modern Painters. Vol. 3, London: Smith, Elder & Company, 1856, pt. 4, ch. 3.

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Ruskin, John. Modern Painters 4. The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 6, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pt. 4, ch. 3.

I'm not over-fond of animals. I am merely astounded by them.

David Attenborough

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Attenborough, David. Independent. 14 Jan. 1995.

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Life of Pi. Directed by Ang Lee, Haishang Films/Dune Entertainment/Gil Netter, 2012.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "An Apology for Idlers." Cornhill Magazine, July 1877, vol. 36, pp. 80-86.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

Herbert Spencer

Progress: Its Law and Cause

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Spencer, Herbert. "Progress: Its Law and Cause." Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects. London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1861. Originally published in The Westminster Review, Apr. 1857.