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Carlyle, Thomas. "Friedrich's Apprenticeship, First Stage." History of Frederick the Great. Vol. 1, London: Chapman and Hall, 1858, bk. 4, ch. 3.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

W.E. Gladstone

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Gladstone, William E. Address on the reform bill. House of Commons meeting. 27 Apr. 1866, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Parker, Charlie. Interviewed by Michael Levin and John S. Wilson. Downbeat Magazine, 9 Sept. 1949.

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Van Buren, Martin. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1837, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.

Stephen King

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King, Steven. "Steven King'd Most Memorable Books of 2007." Entertainment Weekly, 21 Dec. 2007.

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Lorde, Audre. "Poetry Is Not a Luxury." Chrysalis, 1977.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Quoted in Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife: A Biography, by Julian Hawthorne. Vol. I, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893.

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Davis, Angela. Angela Davis: An Autobiography. Random House, 1974, ch. 1.

I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

Lou Gehrig

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Gehrig, Lou. Farewell speech. Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day. 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York City, NY, USA.

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Reagan, Ronald. "Farewell Address to the Nation." 11 Jan. 1989, Oval Office, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Dover Publications, 2019.

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

Chuck Palahniuk

Invisible Monsters

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Palahniuk, Chuck. Invisible Monsters. W. W. Norton & Company, 1999.

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Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. 28 Nov. 1905, Court Theatre, London, England, UK, preface.

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Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, preface.

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Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies. Fourth Estate/Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Nightingale and the Rose." The Happy Prince and Other Tales. London: Duckworth and Co., 1888.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Nightingale and the Rose." Oscar Wilde: Complete Short Fiction, edited by Ian Small. Penguin Classics, 2003.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Oenone." Poems. London: Edward Moxon, 1832, st. 14.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Oenone." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, st. 14.

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Einstein, Albert. "Einstein on the Atomic Bomb." Interviewed by Raymond Swing. Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1945.

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Einstein, Albert. Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb. Princeton University Press, 2013, ch. 8.

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Coolidge, Calvin. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1925, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005, ch. 17.

I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards any one.

Edith Cavell

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Cavell, Edith. Final words. 12 Oct. 1915, National Shooting Range, Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium.