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Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad. Directed by David Zucker, Paramount Pictures, 1988.

Follow the accident, fear the fixed plan-that is the rule.

John Fowles

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Fowles, John. "Notes on an Unfinished Novel." The Novel Today: Contemporary Writers on Modern Fiction, edited by Malcolm Bradbury. Manchester University Press, 1977.

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Patton, George Smith. War As I Knew It. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1947, pt. 3.

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1653, introduction.

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, edited by Marjorie Swann. Oxford University Press, 2014, introduction.

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Cowley, Abraham. "Inconstancy." The Mistress with Other Select Poems. London: self-published, 1647.

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Elizabeth II. Tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales. 5 Sept. 1997, Buckingham Palace, London, England, UK. Broadcast.

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Von Hayek, Friedrich August. The Road to Serfdom [Der Weg zur Knechtschaft]. Routledge Press/University of Chicago Press, 1944, ch. 8.

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Zero Dark Thirty. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Columbia Pictures/First Light Productions/Annapurna Pictures, 2012.

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Caddyshack. Directed by Harold Ramis, Orion Pictures, 1980.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis and Fanny Stevenson. "Epilogue of the Cigar Divan." More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1885.

Productivity isn't everything, but in the long run it is almost everything.

Paul Krugman

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Krugman, Paul. The Age of Diminished Expectations. MIT Press, 1990.

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Rumsfeld, Donald. Remark about the lack of equipment in Iraq. 8 Dec. 2004, Kuwait.

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Rumsfeld, Donald. Quoted in Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America's Post-9/11 Wars, written by Neta C. Crawford. Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Easy Rider. Directed by Dennis Hopper. Pando Company Inc./Raybert Productions, 1969.

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. Broadcast on D-Day. 6 June 1944, Broadcast Room, The White House, Washington, DC, USA. Radio broadcast.

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Burke, Edmund. Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. London: J. Dodsley, 1770.

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Burke, Edmund. "Thoughts on the Present Discontents." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Williams, Shirley. Quoted in the Observer. 22 Mar. 1981.

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Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull House. The Macmillan Company, 1910.

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Barrie, James M. Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. Performed by Gerald du Maurier, Nina Boucicault, Joan Burnett, Christine Silver, A.W. Baskcomb, and Alice DuBarry. 27 Dec. 1904, Duke of York's Theatre, Westminster, London, England, UK, act 4.