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The King of Comedy. Directed by Martin Scorses, Embassy International Pictures, 1982.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything!

Agatha Christie

The Kidnapped Prime Minister

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Christie, Agatha. "The Kidnapped Prime Minister." Poirot Investigates. The Bodley Head, 1924.

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Hume, David. "Of Money." Political Discourses. Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, 1752, no. 3.

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Hume, David. "Of Money." Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary: Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp and Mark A Box. Oxford University Press, 2022, pt. 2, no. 3.

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Forrest Gump. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, The Tisch Company, 1994.

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Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. London: Thomas Basset, 1690, bk. 4, ch. 20, sect. 17.

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Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Pauline Phemister. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 4, ch. 20, sect. 17.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "The Sub-Treasury: Speech at a Political Discussion." 26 Dec. 1839, Hall of the House of Representatives, Springfield, IL, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech on the Sub-Treasury at Springfield, Illinois, December 26, 1839." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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Scent of a Woman. Directed by Martin Brest, City Lights Films, 1992.

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Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Faber and Faber, 1939.

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Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Wordsworth, 2012.

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Sudden Impact. Directed by Clint Eastwood, Warner Bros., 1983.

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Shakespeare, William. The Rape of Lucrece. London: Richard Field, 1594, I. 1252.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Rape of Lucrece." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, I. 1252.

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Friday. Directed by F. Gary Gray, New Line Productions/Ghetto Bird Productions, 1995.

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Address to Conference of International Labor Organization. Conference of International Labor Organization. 17 May 1944, Washington, DC, USA.

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Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 1.

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Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 1.

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Notorious. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, RKO Pictures/Vanguard Films, 1946.

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

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The Lion King. Directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Feature Animation, 1994.

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Pulp Fiction. Directed by Quentin Tarantino, A Band Apart/Jersey Films, 1994.

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Watterson, Bill. Calvin and Hobbes. Comic Strip. 28 Aug. 1988.

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Milton, John. Areopagitca; a speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England. London, 1644.

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Milton, John. "Areopagitica." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

C.S. Lewis

A Grief Observed

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Lewis, C.S., published as N.W. Clerk. A Grief Observed. Faber and Faber, 1961, ch. 1.