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With method and logic one can accomplish anything!

Agatha Christie

The Kidnapped Prime Minister

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Christie, Agatha. "The Kidnapped Prime Minister." Poirot Investigates. The Bodley Head, 1924.

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Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 2.

It is completely unimportant... That is why it is so interesting.

Hercule Poirot

Quoted in The Murder of Rogers Ackroyd

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Christie, Agatha. "Who Killed Ackroyd?" London Evening News, July - Sept. 1925.

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Christie, Agatha. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Vintage Books, 2022, ch. 7.

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 3.

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 3.

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Gibran, Khalil. Sand and Foam. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926.

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Gibran, Khalil. Sand and Foam. Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.

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Lenin, Vladimir. "Our Foreign and Domestic Position and Party Tasks." The Moscow Gubernia Conference Of The R.C.P.(B.). 21 Nov. 1920, Moscow, Russia. Speech.

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Lenin, Vladimir. Quoted in Communism, written by Mark Sandle. Routledge, 2014.

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Gibran, Kahlil. Sand and Foam. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926.

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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Gibran, Kahlil. "The Coming of the Ship." The Prophet. Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.

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Gibran, Kahlil. "The Coming of the Ship." The Prophet. Penguin Classics, 2019.

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Whitehead, Alfred North. "Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology." Gifford Lecture. 1927–1928, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Whitehead, Alfred North. Process and Reality. Simon and Schuster, 2010, pt. 1, ch. 1, sec. 3.

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Stalin, Joseph. The Foundations of Leninism. International Publishers, 1970, ch. 4, sect. 2. Originally a lecture called "The Dictatorship of the Proletariat." Foundations of Leninism lecture series. 1924, Sverdlov University, Moscow, Russia.

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Gibran, Kahlil. "On Marriage." The Prophet. Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.

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Gibran, Kahlil. "On Marriage." The Prophet. Penguin Classics, 2019.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.

Will Rogers

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Rogers, Will. "Warning to Jokers: Lay Off the Prince." The Illiterate Digest. Albert & Charles Boni, 1924.

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Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922, ch. 25.

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Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt, edited by Gordon Hutner. Oxford University Press, 2010, ch. 25.

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Einstein, Albert. Address in Paris. c. Dec. 1929, Sorbonne, Paris, France.

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Einstein, Albert. "Einstein on Classifications." New York Times, 16 Feb. 1930.

The tragedy of love is indifference.

William Somerset Maugham

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Maugham. William Somerset. The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands. George H. Doran Company, 1921.

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Post, Emily. Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home. Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1922.

If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.

Louis Brandeis

Jay Burns Baking Co. vs. Bryan

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Brandeis, Louis. Dissenting Opinion. Jay Burns Baking Co. v. Bryan. United States Reports, vol. 264, 14 Apr. 1924, pp. 517-534. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/264/504/.

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Woolf, Virginia. Orlando: A Biography. Hogarth Press, 1928, ch. 4.

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Woolf, Virginia. Orlando. Penguin Classics, 2019, ch. 4.

Love's a disease. But curable.

Rose Macaulay

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Macaulay, Rose. Crewe Train. W. Collins Sons & Co./Boni and Liveright, 1926, ch. 13.

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Macaulay, Rose. Crewe Train. Virago, 2018, ch. 13.