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Whether they will or no, Americans must now begin to look outward.

Alfred Thayer Mahan

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Mahan, Alfred Thayer. "The United States Looking Outward." Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1890.

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Pepys, Samuel. Diary entry. 30 July 1666.

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Dryden, John. Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr. Performed by Nell Gwyn and Margaret Hughes and Michael Mohun and Charles Hart and Rebecca Marshall and William Cartwright. King's Company, 1669, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, UK, prologue.

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Dryden, John. "Tyrannick Love." The Works of John Dryden, edited by Maximillian E. Nozak and George R. Guffey. Vol. 10, University of California, 1970, prologue.

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Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning. London: Oxford: Rob Youn and Ed Forrest, 1605, bk. 1, ch. 5, sect. 11.

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Bacon, Francis. "The Advancement of Learning." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 5, sect. 11.

Above all, be the heroine in your life, not the victim.

Nora Ephron

1996 Wellesley commencement address

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Ephron, Nora. Commencement speech. Commencement ceremony. 25 May 1996, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA.

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Macaulay, Thomas. The History of England: From the Accession of James II. Vol. 1, Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1848.

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Macaulay, Thomas. The History of England from the Accession of James II, 5 Volume Set. The Folio Society, 2009.

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Colton, Charles Caleb. Lacon: Or Many Things In Few Words Addressed To Those Who Think. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.

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

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Blake, William. Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion. London, c. 1820, ch. 3, plate 55, I. 60.

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Blake, William. "Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. University of California Press, 2008, ch. 3, plate 55, I. 60.

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Spock, Benjamin. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946, ch. 1.

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Gay, John. The Beggar's Opera. 1728, Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 1, air 22.

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Gay, John. "The Beggar's Opera." The Beggar's Opera and Polly, edited by Hal Gladfelder. Oxford University Press, 2013, act 2, sc. 1, air 22.

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Bradbury, Ray. "Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203." Interviewed by Sam Weller. Paris Review, Spring 2010.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter." The Edinburgh Review, June 1827.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 26, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "Sonnet." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, l. 13.

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Shakespeare, William. Henry V. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1599, The Curtain, Shoreditch, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Henry the Fifth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Hellas: A Lyrical Drama. London: Charles and James Ollier, 1822, I. 682.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Hellas." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 682.

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Baldwin, James. Quoted in "Go the Way Your Blood Beats." Interviewed by Richard Goldstein. Village Voice, 26 June 1984.

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Baldwin, James. "Go the Way Your Blood Beats." James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Interviews. Melville House, 2014.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." London: J. Wilford, 1733, I. ep. 2, 275-276.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, ep. 2, l. 275-276.

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Didion, Joan. "In the Islands." The White Album. Simon & Schuster, 1979.

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Walpole, Horace. Letter to Anne. 16 Aug. 1776.

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Walpole, Horace. "Letter to Anne." Horace Walpole's Correspondence, edited by Wilmarth S. Lewis, A. Dayle Wallace, and Edwine M. Martz. Vol. 32, Yale University Press, 1965.