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Russell, Bertrand. "On the Value of Skepticism." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

It may be said likewise in respect of perfect wisdom, which is no less orderly than mathematics, that if there were not the best among all possible worlds, God would not have produced any.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Theodicy

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Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm. Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God and Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil. 1710, pt. 1.

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Huxley, Aldous. Ends and Means (an Enquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization). Chatto & Windus, 1937, ch. 8.

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Quarles, Francis. Hadassa; or the History of Queene Ester. London: Richard Moore, 1621, sec. 9, meditation 9.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Chartism. London: James Frases, 1840, ch. 5.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Chartism." Thomas Carlyle: Selected Writings. Penguin Classics, 2015.

The technocratic imperative: "What can be done must be done."

Theodore Roszak

The Making of the Counter Culture

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Roszak, Theodore. The Making of the Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society. Doubleday & Co., 1969, appendix.

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Forster, E.M. Howards End. Edward Arnold, 1910, ch. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 1, sc. 5.

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 5.

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Hedberg, Mitch. Strategic Grill Locations. 7 Sept. 1999, The Laff Stop Comedy Club, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Kinsey, Alfred C. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. W. B. Saunders Co., 1948, ch. 21.

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Rogers, Fred. Commencement address to the Dartmouth Class of 2002. Commencement cermony. 2002, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

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Yeats, William Butler. "Vacillation." The Winding Stair and Other Poems. The Macmillan Company, 1933, pt. 5, st. 2.

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Yeats, William Butler. "Vacillation." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 5, st. 2.

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Thomson, William. "Electrical Units of Measurement." 3 May 1883, Institute of Civil Engineers, London, England, UK. Lecture.

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Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Random House, 1961, pt. 1, ch. 2.

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Crichton, Michael. Jurassic Park. Alfred A. Knopf, 1990.

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.

Roger Scruton

Beauty: A Very Short Introduction

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Scruton, Roger. Beauty: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2011, ch. 8.

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O'Sullivan, John Louis. United States Magazine and Democratic Review. July 1845-Aug. 1845.

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Eliot, T. S. The Cocktail Party. 1949, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 1, sc. 5.

We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it.

Joe Namath

Predicting a Jets Super Bowl victory.

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Namath, Joe. Namath's guarantee to win Superbowl III. Awards dinner. 9 Jan. 1969, Miami Touchdown Club, Miami, FL, USA.

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Namath, Joe. All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters. Little, Brown and Company, 2019.

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Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "To Marguerite." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, st. 4.