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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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Strand, Mark. "Untelling the Hour." Acts of Mind: Conversations with Contemporary Poets. University of Alabama Press, 1983. Originally an interview called "Untelling the Hour." Interviewed by Richard Jackson. The Poetry Miscellany, c. 1979.

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Thomson, James. Spring. London: Andrew Millar, 1728.

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

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Full Metal Jacket. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Natant/Harrier Films, 1987.

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Browning, Robert. "Rabbi Ben Ezra." Dramatis Personae. London: Chapman & Hall, 1864, I. 1.

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Browning, Robert. "Rabbi Ben Ezra." Robert Browning: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 5, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 3.

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.

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Adams, Douglas. "Fit the Fifth." The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Primary Phase. BBC Radio 4, London, England, UK, 5 Apr. 1978.

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Adams, Douglas. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Pan Books, 1980, ch. 18.

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Get Out. Directed by Jordan Peele, Blumhouse Productions/QC Entertainment/Monkeypaw Productions, 2017.

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Rossetti, Christina. "A Christmas Carol." Scribner's Monthly, 1872, I. 1.

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Rossetti, Christina. "A Christmas Carol." The Complete Poems. Penguin Classics, 2001, I. 1.

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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Forster, E.M. "What I Believe." Two Cheers for Democracy. Hogarth Press, 1951. Originally published in the Nation, 16 July 1938.

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908.

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013.

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

From religion comes a man's purpose; from science his power to achieve it.

William Henry Bragg

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Bragg, William Henry. "Sound in War." c. Christmas 1919, The Royal Institution, Westminster, London, England, UK. Lecture.

A steady patriot of the world alone,
The friend of every country but his own.

George Canning

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Canning, George. "New Morality." Anti-Jacobin Magazine and Review, 1821.

My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

Carl Schurz

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Schurz, Carl. Remarks at senate meeting. Senate meeting. 29 Feb. 1872, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.