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Johnson, Samuel. "Butler." Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. London: C. Bathurst, et al., 1781.

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Three Amigos. Directed by John Landis, Orion Pictures, 1986.

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Berry, Wendell. "Ripening." A Part. North Point Press, 1980.

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Shakespeare, William. Othello. King's Men, 1 Nov. 1604, Palace of Whitehall, Westminster, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Othello." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 1.

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Gould, Stephen Jay. "Evolution as Fact and Theory." Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes. W. W. Norton & Company, 1983, ch. 19.

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Channing, William Ellery. "Self Culture." Franklin Lecture. Sept. 1838, Boston, MA, USA.

How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! and how much the best!

Charles James Fox

On the fall of the Bastille.

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Fox, Charles James. Letter to Richard Fitzpatrick. 30 July 1789.

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Bradbury, Ray. Quoted in Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life, edited by Barnaby Conrad and Monte Schultz. Writer's Digest Books, 2002.

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American Beauty. Directed by Sam Mendes, Jinks/Cohen Company, 1999.

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Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Culture of Contentment. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992, ch. 8.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber

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Ferber, Edna. Comment at a round table. Algonquin Round Table. c. 1929, Algonquin Hotel, New York City, NY, USA.

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Parkinson, C. Northcote. Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress. John Murray, 1958, ch. 10. Originally published as "Pension Point" in The Economist, c. 1958.

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"Goodbye." The Wonder Years, written by Neal Marlens and Carol Black and Bob Brush, directed by Michael Dinner, season 3, episode 20, The Black/Marlens Company and New World Television, 1990.

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Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. “The Danger of a Single Story.” TED, July 2009, https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story/transcript?language=en.

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High Noon. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Stanley Kramer Productions, 1952.

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Keynes, John Maynard. The End Of Laissez-faire. Hogarth Press, 1926, pt. 3.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "The End of Laissaz-faire." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016, ch. 3.

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Baruch, Bernard M. Address before the Senate's Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program. Senate Committee meeting. 24 Oct. 1947, Senate Office Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Museums have today become the new churches.

Christian Boltanski

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Boltanski, Christian. Interview with Tamar Garb. Christian Boltanski. Phaidon Press, 1997, p. 11.

We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.

Charles Evans Hughes

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Hughes, Charles Evans. Speech before the Chamber of Commerce. 3 May 1907, Elmira, NY, USA.

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Arnold, Matthew. "Equality." Mixed Essays. London: Smith, Elder & Co./New York: Macmillan and Co., 1879.