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You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on-into the dustbin of history!

Leon Trotsky

To the Mensheviks, who were more moderate than the Bolsheviks.

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Trotsky, Leon. История русской революции [History of the Russian Revolution]. Vol. 2, H. Atkinson, 1933.

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Seeing is forgetting the name of the things one sees.

Paul Valéry

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Valéry, Paul. Quoted in Robert Irwin: A Way to Look at Things by Not Forgetting Their Names, written by Adrian Kohn. c. 1982.

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Where is the wisdom we have lost in
knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in
information?

T.S. Eliot

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Eliot, T. S. The Rock. 1934, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, England, UK, pt. 1.

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Success is relative:
It is what we can make of the mess we have
made of things.

T.S. Eliot

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Eliot, T. S. The Family Reunion. Performed by Michael Redgrave, Helen Haye, and Catherine Lacey. 1939, Westminster Theatre, London, England, UK, pt. 2, sc. 3.

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Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden.

T.S. Eliot

Burnt Norton

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Eliot, T. S. “Burnt Norton.” Collected Poems 1909–1935. Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1936, pt. 1.

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The very touch of the letter was as if you had taken me all into your arms.

Anaïs Nin

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Nin, Anaïs and Henry Miller. "August 6, 1932." A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann. Harcourt Brace & Company, 1987.

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Birth, and copulation, and death.
That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

T.S. Eliot

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Eliot, T. S. "Fragment of an Agon." Sweeney Agonistes: Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama. Faber & Faber, 1932.

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The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Smith, Logan Pearsall. "Art and Letters." Afterthoughts. Constable & Company, 1931.

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Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Terre des hommes [Wind, Sand and Stars]. Gallimard, 1939.

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Who built the Thebes of the seven gates?
In the books you will find the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?...
Where, the evening that the wall of China was finished
Did the masons go?

Bertolt Brecht

Questions from a Worker Who Reads

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Brecht, Bertolt. "Fragen eines lesenden Arbeiters [Questions of a Reading Worker]." Das Wort, 1936.

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Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my!

Dorothy Gale

The Wizard of Oz

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The Wizard of Oz. Directed by Victor Fleming. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

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You can't understand it. You would have to be born there.

William Faulkner

Absalom, Absalom!

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On the South.

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Faulkner, William. Absalom, Absalom! Chelsea House Publishers, 1987, p. 85.

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When hearts are high the time will fly, so whistle while you work.

Snow White

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Directed by David Hand, Walt Disney Productions, 1937.

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The ego's relation to the id might be compared with that of a rider to his horse. The horse supplies the locomotive energy, while the rider has the privilege of deciding on the goal and of guiding and powerful animal's movement. But only too often there arises between the ego and the id the not precisely ideal situation of the rider being obliged to guide the horse along the path by which it itself wants to go.

Sigmund Freud

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

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Freud, Sigmund. New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, translated by James Strachey. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990, lecture 31. Originally published as Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in die Psychoanalyse [New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis]. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1933, lecture 31.

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War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to face it.

Benito Mussolini

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Mussolini, Benito. "Fascismo [Fascism]: 'Forza e consenso [Strength and Consent].'" Enciclopedia Italiana [Italian Encyclopedia]. 1932.

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The sons of torture-victims make good terrorists.

Andre Malraux

Man's Fate

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Malraux, Andre. La Condition humaine [The Human Condition]. Librairie Gallimard, 1933, pt. 4.

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Malraux, Andre. Man's Fate. Penguin Books, 2009, pt. 4.

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God bless America,
Land that I love,
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with a light from above.

From the mountains to the prairies,
To the oceans white with foam,
God bless America,
My home sweet home.

Irving Berlin

God Bless America

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Read the lyrics to God Bless America

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Berlin, Irving. God Bless America. Irving Berlin Inc., 1939.

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I am interested in the future because I expect to spend the rest of my life in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

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Kettering, Charles F. Spoken during a luncheon. Joint luncheon held by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Advertising Club. July 1939, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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