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St. Elmo's Fire. Directed by Joel Schumacher, Channel-Lauren Shuler, 1985.

Well, I can tell you about the river
Or we could just get in.

Bill Callahan

From the Rivers to the Ocean

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Callahan, Bill. "From the Rivers to the Ocean." Woke on a Whaleheart. Drag City, 2007.

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Defoe, Daniel. "Of Academies: An Academy for Women." An Essay Upon Projects. London: Tho. Cockerill, 1697.

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Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that Which is to Come. London: Nathaniel Ponder, 1678, pt. 1.

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Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress, edited by Roger Pooley. Penguin Classics, 2009, pt. 1.

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Osler, William. "Chauvinism in Medicine." Canadian Medical Association gathering. 17 Sept. 1902, Montreal, Québec, Canada.

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Swingers. Directed by Doug Liman, Independent Pictures/Alfred Shay Productions, 1996.

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Dali, Salvador. "Dali." Interviewed by Winthrop Sargeant. Life, September 24, 1945, p. 64.

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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The Critic. 1779, Drury Lane Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 2.

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Bentham, Jeremy. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. London: T. Payne and Son, 1789, ch. 17.

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Bentham, Jeremy. Utilitarianism and Other Essays. Penguin UK, 2004.

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Monty Python's Life of Brian. Directed by Terry Jones, Handmade Films/Python (Monty) Pictures, 1979.

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Greene, Graham. Ways of Escape. The Bodley Head, 1980, ch. 8, sec. 3.

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Hardy, Thomas. "The Man He Killed." Harper's Weekly, 8 Nov. 1902.

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Hardy, Thomas. "The Man He Killed." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 1998.

Complete moral tolerance is possible only when men have become completely indifferent to each other-that is to say, when society is at an end.

James Fitzjames Stephen

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

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Stephen, James Fitzjames. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. London: Smith, Elder, & Company, 1873, ch. 4.

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Stephen, James Fitzjames. Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, edited by Julia Stapleton. Oxford University Press, 2018, ch. 4.

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Berlin, Isaiah. "The Philosophical Ideas of Giambattista Vico." Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas. Viking Press/Hogarth, 1976, pt. 1.

Ill news hath wings, and with the wind doth go,
Comfort's a cripple and comes ever slow.

Michael Drayton

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Drayton, Michael. "The Barons' Wars." The Barons' Wars, Nymphidia, and Other Poems. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1887.

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Edgeworth, Maria. Castle Rackrent. London: J. Johnson, 1800, preface.

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Edgeworth, Maria. Castle Rackrent, edited by Ryan Twomey. W. W. Norton & Company, 2014, preface.

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

Ray Cummings

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Cummings, Ray. "The Girl in the Golden Atom." All-Story Weekly, Mar. 1919.

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Cummings, Ray. The Girl in the Golden Atom. University of Nebraska Press, 2005, ch. 5.

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Kennedy, Robert F. "Day of Affirmation." National Union of South African Students meeting. 6 June 1966, Jameson Hall, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa.

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Russell, Bertrand. Marriage and Morals. Allen & Unwin, 1929, ch. 16.