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Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.

Alasdair Gray

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Gray, Alasdair. Engraved in the Canongate Wall of the Scottish Parliament Building. Edinburgh, Scotland. 2004.

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Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

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Leopold, Aldo. "The Land Ethic." A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There. Oxford University Press, 1949.

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Rope. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Transatlantic Pictures, 1948.

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LaFollette, Suzanne. Concerning Women. Albert & Charles Boni, 1926, ch. 1.

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Lebowitz, Fran. "Tips for Teens." Social Studies. Random House, 1981.

Happy trails to you, until we meet again
Happy trails to you, keep smilin' until then.

Dale Evans

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Evans, Dale. “Happy Trails.” Performed by Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. RCA Victor, 1952.

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Allen Saunders

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Saunders, Allen. Quoted in Reader's Digest. Jan. 1957.

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Truman, Harry S. Quoted in Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, written by Merle Miller. Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1974, ch. 24.

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Whitehead, Alfred North. Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, edited by Lucien Price. David. R. Godine, 2008, ch. 22. Originally from dialogue with Lucien Price, 30 Aug. 1941.

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Goldwater, Barry. Quoted in Saturday Evening Post. 31 Aug. 1963.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Kwame Nkrumah

Consciencism

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Nkrumah, Kwame. Consciencism. Monthly Review Press, 1964, ch. 2.

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Wells, Rebecca. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. HarperCollins, 1996, ch. 31.

Wars, conflict - it's all business. One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow!

Charlie Chaplin

Monsieur Verdoux

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Monsieur Verdoux. Directed by Charlie Chaplin, United Artists, 1947.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Robert Hass

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Hass, Robert. "Meditation at Lagunitas." Praise. Ecco Press, 1979, I. 24.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

Annie Proulx

The Shipping News

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Proulx, Annie. The Shipping News. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993, ch. 10.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Karen Horney

Our Inner Conflicts

On therapy.

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Horney, Karen. Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neuroses. W. W. Norton & Company, 1945, conclusion.

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Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. London: William Ponsonbie, 1590, bk. 1, canto 9.

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Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene, Book 1, edited by Carol V. Kaske. Hackett Publishing Company, 2006, bk. 1 canto 9, st. 40.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 15 Aug. 1773.

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Johnson, Samuel and James Boswell. "The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides." A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, edited by Jack Lynch and Celia Barnes. Oxford University Press, 2021.

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Janowitz, Tama. "Modern Saint #271." Slaves of New York. Simon and Schuster/Crown Publishers, 1986.