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The mystery of life is not solved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.

Patrick White

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White, Patrick. Voss. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957, ch. 10.

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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Ernest Dimnet

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Dimnet, Ernest. What We Live By. Simon & Schuster, 1932, pt. 2, ch. 12.

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As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the the assent of the relevant community. To discover how scientific revolutions are effected, we shall therefore have to examine not only the impact of nature and of logic, but also the techniques of persuasive argumentation effective within the quite special groups that constitute the community of scientists.

Thomas S. Kuhn

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press, 1962, ch. 9.

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Time has too much credit... It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

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Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Darkness and Day. David & Charles/Alfred A. Knopf, 1951, ch. 7.

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The subtlest and most pervasive of all influences are those which create and maintain the repertory of stereotypes. We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them.

Walter Lippmann

Public Opinion

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Lippmann, Walter. Public Opinion. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922, pt. 3, ch. 6.

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Lippmann, Walter. Public Opinion. Dover Publications, 2004, pt. 3, ch. 6.

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God is on everyone's side…and, in the last analysis, he is on the side of those with plenty of money and large armies.

Jean Anouilh

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Anouilh, Jean. L'Aloutte [The Lark]. Paris: La Table Ronde, 1953.

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Anouilh, Jean. "The Lark." Anouilh Plays: One: Antigone, Léocadia, The Waltz of the Toreadors, The Lark, and Poor Bitos. Methuen Drama, 1987.

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Up to the moment of this writing... The Nazi concentration camp system still remains a unicum, both in its extent and its quality. At no other place or time has one seen a phenomenon so unexpected and so complex: never have so many human lives been extinguished in so short a time, and with so lucid a combination of technological ingenuity, fanaticism, and cruelty.

Primo Levi

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The Drowned and the Saved

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Levi, Primo. I sommersi e i salvati [The Drowned and the Saved]. Einaudi, 1986, preface.

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Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved, translated by Raymond Rosenthal. Simon & Schuster, 2017, preface.

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Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

G.K. Chesterton

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Chesterton, G.K. "The Defendant." The Wit, Whimsy and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 6, Coachwhip Publications, 2009, introduction. Originally published by R. Brinley Johnson, 1901.

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I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found.

Thomas Wolfe

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Wolfe, Thomas. You Can't Go Home Again. Harper & Row, 1940, ch. 48.

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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Laurens van der Post

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Post, Laurens van der. The Lost World of the Kalahari. William Morrow, 1958, ch. 3.

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Christ of his gentleness
Thirsting and hungering,
Walked in the wilderness;
Soft words of grace He spoke
Unto lost desert-folk
That listened wondering.

Robert Graves

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Graves, Robert. "In the Wilderness." Over the Brazier. c. 1916.

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Graves, Robert. "In the Wilderness." The Complete Poems: In One Volume. Penguin Books, 2003, l. 1-6.

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If all be true that I think,
There are five reasons we should drink;
Good wine-a friend-or being dry-
Or lest we should be by and by-
Or any other reason why.

Henry Aldrich

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Aldrich, Henry. Reasons for Drinking. c. 1689.

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In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Man and Superman." Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, act 3. Originally published by Archibald and Constable & Co., Ltd, 1903.

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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

William Ralph Inge

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Inge, William Ralph. The End of an Age and Other Essays. Putnam, 1948, ch. 6.

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I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable, established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

William Tyler Page

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Page, William Tyler. "The American's Creed." House of Representatives meeting. 3 Apr. 1918, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA. Originally, a submission to a nationwide patriotic contest. c. 1917.

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The weakness of American civilization, and perhaps the chief reason why it creates so much discontent, is that it is so curiously abstract. It is a bloodless extrapolation of a satisfying life... You dine off the advertiser's "sizzling" and not the meat of the steak.

J.B. Priestley

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Priestley, J. B. New Statesman. 10 Dec. 1971.

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Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast. But in the morning Lust is always furtive.

Henry Fairlie

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Fairlie, Henry. "Lust or Luxuria." The Seven Deadly Sins Today. New Republic Books, 1978.

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The people will live on.
The learning and blundering people will live on.
They will be tricked and sold and again sold
And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds.

Carl Sandburg

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Sandburg, Carl. The People, Yes. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1936, no. 107.

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There is no human being on earth who is capable of declaring who he is, with certainty. No one knows what he has come to this world to do, to what his acts, feelings, ideas correspond, or what his real name is, his imperishable Name in the registry of Light.

Leon Bloy

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Bloy, Leon. L'ame de Napoleon [The Soul of Napoleon]. 1912, introduction.

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What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-blind or not-a good world to live in, a promising universe.... We once thought we lived on God's footstool; it may be a throne.

Clarence S. Day

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This Simian World

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Day, Clarence. This Simian World. Alfred A. Knopf, 1920, ch. 19.

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