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A man without faith is like a fish without a bicycle.

Charles S. Harris

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Harris, Charles S. Quoted in The Swarthmore Phoenix. 7 April 1958.

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Spartacus. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Bryna Productions, 1960.

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Bagehot, Walter. "The Character of Sir Robert Peel." National Review, July 1856.

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Bagehot, Walter. "The Character of Sir Robert Peel." The Best of Bagehot. Hamish Hamilton, 1993.

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Edgeworth, Maria. Leonora. London: J. Johnson, 1806, letter 1.

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Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan. United States, Supreme Court. Palko v. Connecticut. United States Reports, vol. 302, 6 Dec. 1937, pp. 319-329. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/302/319/.

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The Notebook. Directed by Nick Cassavetes, Gran Via, 2004.

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Cowley, Abraham. "Anacreontiques." Poems written by A. Cowley. London: Humphrey Moseley, 1656, no. 7.

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Raleigh, Walter. Even Such is Time. London, c. 1618, I. 1.

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Raleigh, Walter. "Even Such is Time." Great Short Poems. Dover Publications, 2000, I. 1.

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

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Chapman, John Jay. Emerson and Other Essays. Moffat, Yard and Company, 1909, preface.

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Fletcher, Andrew. Letter to the Marquis of Montrose. 1 Dec. 1703.

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Fletcher, Andrew. "An Account of Conversation concerning a Right Regulation of Government for the Good of Mankind. In a Letter to the Marquis of Montrose." Andrew Fletcher: Political Works, edited by John Robertson. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

In every house of marriage
there's room for an interpreter.

Stanley Kunitz

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Kunitz, Stanley. "Route Six." New England Review, c. 1993.

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Morris, William. "The Beauty of Life." Hopes and Fears for Art: Five Lectures Delivered in Birmingham, London, and Nottingham, 1878 - 1881. London: Ellis & White/Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1882. Originally a lecture before the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design. 19 Feb. 1880, Birmingham, England, UK.

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Varsity Blues. Directed by Brian Robbins, MTV Films/Tollin/Robbins Productions, 1999.

It is wrong always, everywhere and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

W.K. Clifford

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Clifford, William Kingdon. "The Ethics of Belief." Contemporary Review, 1877.

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Clifford, William Kingdon. "The Ethics of Belief." The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays. Prometheus, 1999.

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Gladiator. Directed by Ridley Scott. DreamWorks Pictures/ Scott Free Productions/Universal Pictures/Red Wagon Entertainment, 2000.

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Muir, John. Journal entry. July 1890.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." London: J. Wilford, 1733, ep. 1, I. 289-292.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, ep. 1, l. 289-292.

When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon
But small, appear most long and terrible.

Nathaniel Lee

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Lee, Nathaniel and John Dryden. Oedipus: A Tragedy. London: R. Bentley and M. Magnes, 1679, act 4, sc. 1.

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Temple, Henry John. Address in the House of Commons. House of Commons meeting. 1 Mar. 1848, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.