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Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A youth to fortune and to fame unknown.
Fair Science frowned not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy marked him for her own.

Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

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Gray, Thomas. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. London: Robert Dodsley, 1751.

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Gray, Thomas. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Elegy Written In Country Churchyard and Other Poems. Penguin Classics, 2009.

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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement—but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes

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Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Harper & Brothers/Methuen Publishing, 1911, pt. 2, ch. 3.

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Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Dover Publications, 2003, pt. 2, ch. 3.

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The God whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience

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James, William. "Conclusions." Gifford Lecture. c. 1902, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. Lecture.

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James, William. "Conclusions." The Varieties of Religious Experience, edited by Martin E. Marty. Penguin Classics, 1982.

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The car, the furniture, the wife, the children-everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is-shopping.

Arthur Miller

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The Price

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Miller, Arthur. The Price. 7 Feb. 1968, Morosco Theatre, New York City, NY, USA, act 1.

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It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids, without the knowledge of the individual, certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core commie works.

Dr. Strangelove

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Dr. Strangelove. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Hawk Films, 1964.

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I believe that history will record that we have made a great mistake.

Wayne Lyman Morse

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Said in the Senate debate on the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which committed the United States to intervention in Vietnam. Morse was the only Senator to vote against the resolution.

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Morse, Wayne Lyman. "Senate Debate on the Tonkin Gulf Resolution." US Senate meeting. 7 Aug. 1964, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them-the one, in fact, which is not a mask.

W.H. Auden

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Auden, W. H. "One of the Family." Forewords and Afterwords. Random House/Faber and Faber, 1973.

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Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

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Butler, Samuel. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones. A. C. Fifield, 1912, ch. 1.

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The Night is mother of the Day,
The Winter of the Spring,
And ever upon old Decay
The greenest mosses cling.

John Greenleaf Whittier

A Dream of Summer

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Wittier, John Greenleaf. A Dream of Summer. c. 1847, st. 4.

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A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.

Archibald MacLeish

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MacLeish, Archibald. "Ars Poetica." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1926.

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MacLeish, Archibald. "Ars Poetica." From Collected Poems 1917 to 1982. Mariner Books, 1985.

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When you're young—when I was young—you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that?

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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

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Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

Learned Hand

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Hand, Learned. "A Pledge of Allegiance." I Am An American Day. 20 May 1945, Central Park, New York City, NY, USA.

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God of forgiveness, do not forgive those murderers of Jewish children here.

Elie Wiesel

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Spoken at Auschwitz.

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Wiesel, Elie. The Times. 27 Jan. 1995.

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Freedom of thought and the right of private judgment, in matters of conscience, driven from every other corner of the earth, direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

Samuel Adams

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Adams, Samuel. "American Independence." 1 Aug. 1776, State House, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Speech.

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I know I am but summer to your heart,
And not the full four seasons of the year.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Millay, Edna St. Vincent. "I Know I Am But Summer." The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems. Harper & Brothers, 1923, I. 1.

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Death! great proprietor of all! 'tis thine
To tread out empire, and to quench the stars.

Edward Young

Night Thoughts

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Young, Edward. The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. London: R. Dodsley, 1742, Night 1, I. 204.

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Young, Edward. Edward Young: Night Thoughts, edited by Stephen Cornford. Cambridge University Press, 2008, Night 1, I. 204.

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I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. Letter to Ellen Terry. 28 Aug. 1896.

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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found the flower in his hand when he awoke-Aye! and what then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Notebook entry. c. 1816.

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Of all means to regeneration Remorse is surely the most wasteful. It cuts away healthy tissues with the poisoned. It is a knife that probes far deeper than the evil.

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)

Howards End

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Forster, E.M. Howards End. Edward Arnold, 1910, ch. 41.

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How you feel about your family is a complicated thing. Deep down, you'll always love them. But you can forget that you love them, and you can hurt them and they can hurt you, and that's not just because you're young.