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The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.

Edgar A. Guest

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Guest, Edgar. Sermons We See. c. 1926.

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Toynbee, Polly. Guardian. 19 Jan. 1987.

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Traveller; or, a Prospect of Society. London: John Newbery, 1764.

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Bryce, James. The American Commonwealth. Vol. 1, London: Macmillan and Co., 1888, ch. 51.

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Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan. "Stability and Progress." The Paradoxes of Legal Science. Columbia University Press, 1928.

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Gaffigian, Jim. "Obsessed." Comedy Central Special. 27 Apr. 2014, Comedy Central. Originally presented on 18 Jan. 2014 at the Wilbur Theater, Boston, MA, USA.

There's no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

Brendan Behan

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Behan, Brendan. Quoted in My Brother Brendan, written by Dominic Behan. Simon and Schuster, 1965.

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Mailer, Norman. "The Psychology of Astronauts." Of a Fire on the Moon. Little, Brown and Co., 1970. Originally published in Life Magazine, 14 Nov. 1969.

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

Harry A. Blackmun

Regents of University of California v. Bakke

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Blackmun, Harry. United States, Supreme Court. Regents of University of California v. Bakke. United States Reports, vol. 438, 28 June 1978, pp. 265-421. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/438/265/.

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Herbert, George. Jacula Prudentum, or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Microform. London: Humphrey Blunden, 1640.

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Herbert, George. "Outlandish Proverbs." Herbert: The Complete English Works, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater. Everyman's Library, 1995, no. 345.

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Agnew, Spiro. Address in San Diego. California Republican Convention. 11 Sep. 1970, San Diego, CA, USA.

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Hand, Learned. "Class-Day Oration." Commencement. 23 June 1893, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Good Natur'd Man. 1768, Covent Garden Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1.

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Goldsmith, Oliver. The Good-Natur'd Man. Cambridge University Press, 2013, act 1.

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Pound, Ezra. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. The Ovid Press, 1920, pt. 1, poem 5.

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Do the Right Thing. Directed by Spike Lee, 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks, 1989.

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Ascham, Roger. "To All Gentlemen and Yeoman of England." Toxophilus. London: Murray, 1545.

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Bush, George H. W. State of the Union Address. Joint session of the United States Congress. 29 Jan. 1991, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Pope, Alexander. Letter to the Bishop of Rochester. 23 Sept. 1720.

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Pope, Alexander. "To Atterbury, Sept. 23, 1720." Alexander Pope: Selected Letters, edited by Howard Erksine-Hill. Oxford University Press, 2000, no. 61.

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Lowell, James Russell. "The Present Crisis." Poems. Cambridge: George Nichols, 1848. Originally published as "Verses Suggested by the Present Crisis." Boston Courier, 11 Dec. 1845.

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