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Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

Elizabeth David

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David, Elizabeth. French Country Cooking. John Lehmann, 1951, introduction.

You don't need a certificate. Just do it or not do it.

Lawrence Weiner

Quoted in Interview Magazine

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Weiner, Lawrence. "Artists at Work: Lawrence Weiner." Interviewed by Emily McDermott. Interview Magazine, 2 Sept. 2015, www.interviewmagazine.com/art/artists-at-work-lawrence-weiner.

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Patton. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. 20th Century Fox, 1969.

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Wells, H. G. The Outline of History. George Newnes, 1920.

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Gray, Thomas. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College. London: R. Dodsley, 1747.

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Chapman, John Jay. Letter to Elizabeth Chanler. 26 Mar. 1898.

A man is literally what he thinks.

James Allen

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Allen, James. As a Man Thinketh. 1903.

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Allen, James. As a Man Thinketh: The Complete Original Edition. St. Martin's Essential, 2019.

The great design of art is to restore the decays that happened to human nature by the fall, by restoring order.

John Dennis

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Dennis, John. The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry. London: Geo. Strahan and Bernard Lintott, 1704, ch. 2.

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Monty Python's Life of Brian. Directed by Terry Jones, Handmade Films/Python (Monty) Pictures, 1979.

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Nixon, Richard. Announcing major United States offensive into Cambodia. 30 Apr. 1970, The White House, Washington, DC, USA. Broadcast.

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Clare, John. Child Harold. c. 1840, I. 215.

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Clare, John. "Child Harold." John Clare: Major Works, edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 215.

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The Matrix. Directed by The Wachowskis. Warner Bros./Village Roadshow Pictures/Groucho II Film Partnership/Silver Pictures, 1999.

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Clay, Henry. "On the State of the Country After the Removal of the Deposits." Senate meeting. 14 Mar. 1834, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Fox, George. Journal entry. c. 1647.

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Adams, John Quincy. "Society and Civilization." The American Review, July 1845.

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Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Dublin: Jeremy Pepat, 1710, sect. 6.

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Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, edited by Kenneth P. Winkler. Hackett Publishing Company, 1982, sect. 6.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Bernard Shaw's Appreciation of Coburn." Camera Work, edited and published by Alfred Stieglitz, 1906, no. 15, p. 33.

We blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree,
To wither and perish- but nought changeth Thee.

Walter Chalmers Smith

God, All in All

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Smith, Walter Chalmers. "Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise." Hymns of Christ and the Christian Life. London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1867.

He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism which can only be called "it."

Elinor Glyn

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Glyn, Elinor. "It." Cosmopolitan Magazine, Feb. - Mar. 1927.