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There is no such thing as a human nature independent of culture.

Clifford Geertz

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Geertz, Clifford. "The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man." The Monday Lectures. 1965, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

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A trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

Wilson Mizner

On Hollywood.

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Mizner, Wilson. Quoted in The Legendary Mizners, written by Alva Johnston. Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953, ch. 4.

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Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Daniel Webster

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Webster, Daniel. "Remarks Made at Reception." 25 Aug. 1835, Bangor, ME, USA.

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How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.

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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Don't let's be beastly to the Germans
When our Victory is ultimately won.

Noel Coward

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Coward, Noel. Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans. Warner Chappell Music, 1943.

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Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Chinatown

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Chinatown. Directed by Roman Polanski, Long Road Productions/Robert Evans Company, 1974.

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No matter how long you have been here, you are a New Yorker the first time you say, That used to be Munsey's, or That used to be the Tic Toc Lounge... You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

Colson Whitehead

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Whitehead, Colson. The Colossus of New York. Doubleday, 2003, pt. 1.

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No one in this world, so far as I know...has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

H.L. Mencken

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Mencken, Henry Louis. "Notes on Journalism." Chicago Tribune, 19 Sept. 1926.

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Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to.

Gladiator

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

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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Jack London

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London, Jack. "My Confession." The Road. MacMillan & Company, 1907.

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London, Jack. "My Confession." The Road. Dover Publications, 2016.

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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

R.D. Laing

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Laing, Ronald David. The Politics of Experience. Penguin Books, 1967, ch. 6.

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Very few people spend other people's money as carefully as they spend their own.

Milton Friedman

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The Open Mind. Interview with Milton Friedman. Hosted by Richard Heffner. The Open Mind Legacy Project. National Educational Telecommunications Association, PBS, 7 Dec. 1975, www.YouTube.com/watch?v=k2Kg2SvsI8Q

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You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Norman Douglas

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Douglas, Norman. South Wind. Martin Secker, 1917, ch. 6.

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It's no disgrace t'be poor, but it might as well be.

Frank McKinney Hubbard

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Hubbard, Kin. "Short Furrows." News, c. 1911.

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Autumn is quite beautiful here but all the same has a funereal air, like all beautiful autumns-something like a funereal relaxation of things.

Marcel Duchamp

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Grist, Thomas. The Duchamp Dictionary. Thames & Hudson, 2014, p. 70.

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Only the brave know how to forgive... A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Laurence Sterne

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Sterne, Laurence. The Sermons of Mr. Yorick. Vol. 1, London: R. & J. Dodsley, 1760, no. 12.

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But there was one other thing that the grownups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there. The chance had to be there.

Roald Dahl

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.

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Is not this simplier? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.

The Avengers

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The Avengers. Directed by Joss Whedon, Marvel Studios, 2012.

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We know the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm?

John Page

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Page, John. Letter to Thomas Jefferson. 20 July 1776.

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Page, John. Quoted in Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War, written by Michael Kranish. Oxford University Press, 2010.

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To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler

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Butler, Samuel. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones. A. C. Fifield, 1912, ch. 14.

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