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Fuller, Thomas. The Holy State and the Profane State. Cambridge: John Williams, 1642, bk. 3, ch. 4.

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Didion, Joan. Run, River. Ivan Obolensky, Inc., 1963.

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Marlowe, Christopher. The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. Admiral's Men, 1594, The Rose Theater, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 1.

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Marlowe, Christopher. "Doctor Faustus (1604 Text)." Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays. Penguin Classics, 2004, act 5, sc. 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. 1.

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Mencken, Henry Louis. H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010, ch. 3. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1922.

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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. "The Triumph of Time." Poems and Ballads, First Series. London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1866, st. 33.

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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. "The Triumph of Time." Poems and Ballads and Atalanta in Calydon. Penguin Classics, 2001, st. 33.

For anyone trying to discern what to do with their life: pay attention to what you pay attention to.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

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Rosenthal, Amy Krouse [@missamykr]. "for anyone trying to discern what to do w/ their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. that's pretty much all the info u need." Twitter, 15 Mar. 2013, 7:02 a.m., twitter.com/missamykr/status/312564535242395648

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Dryden, John. Alexander's Feast, or The Power of Musique an Ode, in Honour of St. Cecilia's Day. London: Jacob Tonson, 1697, I. 97.

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Dryden, John. "Alexander's Feast." John Dryden Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2002, I. 97.

From the first dawn of life unto the grave,
Poor womankind's in every state a slave.

Sarah Egerton

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Egerton, Sarah. "The Emulation." Poems on Several Occasions, Together with a Pastoral. London: J. Nutt, 1703.

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Iyer, Pico. The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere. Simon & Schuster/TED Books, 2014, ch. 6. Originally a TED Talk, 2013.

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Porter, Katherine Anne. Ship of Fools. Little, Brown and Company, 1962, pt. 3.

It is an empire…that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.

Niall Ferguson

On the United States.

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Ferguson, Niall. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World. Allen Lane/Basic Books, 2003, conclusion.

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Sinclair, Upton. I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked. Farrar & Rinehart, 1935.

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Salinger, J. D. "A Girl I Knew." Good Housekeeping, Feb. 1948.

Little do they know that they meet under an empty sky from which the gods have departed.

Hans Morgenthau

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Morgenthau, Hans. Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948.

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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander. В круге первом [In the First Circle]. Collins & Harvill Press/‎Harper & Row, 1968, ch. 17.

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Housman, Alfred Edward. Last Poems. Henry Holt & Company, 1922, no. 12.

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Housman, Alfred Edward. "Last Poems." A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems, edited by Archie Burnett. Penguin Classics, 2010, no. 12.

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De Vries, Peter. The Tunnel of Love. Little, Brown and Company, 1954, ch. 8.

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Gilbert, William. De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure [On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on That Great Magnet the Earth]. London: Peter Short, 1600, preface.

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Gilbert, William. De Magnete, translated by P. Fleury Mottelay. Dover Publications, 1991.

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Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean [published as J. Hector St. John]. "What Is an American?" Letters from an American Farmer. London: Davies & Davies, 1782.

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Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John. "Letters From an American Farmer." Letters From an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America, edited by Albert E. Stone. Penguin Classics, 1981.