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Al-Sahhaf, Mohammed. Quoted in Daily Telegraph. 10 Apr. 2003.

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Marshall, John. United States, Supreme Court. Marbury v. Madison. United States Reports, vol. 5, 24 Feb. 1803, pp. 137-180. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/5/137/.

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Mead, Margaret. "Warfare is Only an Invention--Not a Biological Necessity." Asia, Aug. 1940.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "Third Annual Message to Congress." Joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives. 7 Dec. 1903, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Any port in a storm.

John Cleland

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Cleland, John. Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. London: G. Fenton, 1748-1749.

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Cleland, John. Fanny Hill or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. Modern Library, 2001.

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Trump, Donald. Announcement of presidential candidacy. 16 June 2015, Trump Tower, New York City, NY, USA.

What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.

P.D. James

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James, P. D. Quoted in Face Magazine. Dec. 1986.

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Kennedy, John F. Address accepting the democratic nomination for president. Democratic National Convention. 15 July 1960, Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Steal This Book

Abbie Hoffman

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Hoffman, Abbie. Steal This Book. Pirate Editions, 1971.

Norman oughte be iuge in his owne cause.

Reginald Pecock

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Pecock, Reginald. The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of the Clergy. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860.

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Pecock, Reginald. The Repressor of Over Much Blaming of the Clergy 2 Volume Set, edited by Churchill Babington. Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Keynes, John Maynard. Memo circulated to British War Cabinet. 15 May 1945.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "Overseas Financial Policy in Stage III (1945)." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016.

Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee.

Bridget Anne Kelly

Email instigating closure of bridge entrances as retribution against a political opponent of New Jersey governer Chris Christie.

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Kelly, Bridget Anne. E-mail to David Wildstein. 13 Aug. 2013.

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Kelly, Bridget Anne. Quoted in Dangerous Leaders: How and Why Lawyers Must Be Taught to Lead, written by Anthony C. Thompson. Stanford University Press, 2018, ch. 2.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “The Poet.” Essays: Second Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1844.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The Poet (1844)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Hardy, Thomas. "A Pair of Blue Eyes." Tinsley's Magazine, Sept. 1872 - July 1873.

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Hardy, Thomas. A Pair of Blue Eyes. Wordsworth Editions, 1998.

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Hume, David. "Of the Independency of Parliament." Essays, Moral and Political. Edinburgh: A. Kincaid, 1741, no. 8.

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Hume, David. "Of the Independency of Parliament." Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary: Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp and Mark A Box. Oxford University Press, 2022, pt. 1, no. 4.

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Hardy, Thomas. "Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented." The Graphic, July–Dec. 1891.

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Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the D'Urbervilles, edited by Scott Elledge. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850, ch. 24.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, edited by Brian Harding. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 24.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

John Updike

Hugging the Shore

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Updike, John. Hugging the Shore. Alfred A. Knopf, 1983, foreword.

In the factory, we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.

Charles H. Revson

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Revson, Charles. Quoted in Fire and Ice: The Story of Charles Revson, the Man Who Built the Revlon Empire, written by Andrew P. Tobias. ‎William Morrow & Co., 1976, ch. 8.

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Selassie, Haile. Address to the United Nations General Assembly. United Nations General Assembly. 4 Oct. 1963, New York, NY, USA.