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It is for us... To inquire constantly and persistently, when theories of national power or states' rights are propounded: "What interests are behind them and to whose advantage will changes or the maintenance of old forms accrue?" By refusing to do this we become victims of history-clay in the hands of its makers.

Charles A. Beard

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An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States

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Beard, Charles A. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. The Macmillan Company, 1935, introduction.

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Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical... It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures the triumph of folly, ignorance, claptrap, and demagogy... Yet democracy is the only form of social order that is admissible, because it is the only one consistent with justice.

Robert Briffault

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Briffault, Robert. The Making of Humanity. London: G. Allen & Unwin Limited.

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Briffault, Robert. Rational Evolution (The Making of Humanity). Routledge, 2019, ch. 15.

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If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Thomas Wolfe

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Wolfe, Thomas. The Web and the Rock. Harper & Sons, 1939, ch. 29.

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I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

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Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Macmillan Publishers, 1936, pt. 5, ch. 63.

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Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Scribner, 2007, pt. 5, ch. 63.

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Everyone has their reasons.

The Rules of the Game

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La règle du jeu [The Rules of the Game.] Directed by Jean Renoir, Nouvelle Édition Française, 1939.

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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.

Ernest Hemingway

Esquire

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Hemingway, Ernest. "Old Newsman Writes: A Letter from Cuba." Esquire Magazine, 1 Dec. 1934.

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Hemingway, Ernest. "Old Newsman Writes: A Letter from Cuba." By-line Ernest Hemingway, edited by William White. Scribner, 2003.

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The first theory is that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle down to the rest of us. The second theory...was the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and secure, their prosperity will rise upward, just as yeast rises up, through the ranks.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Campaign address. 2 Oct. 1932, Detroit, MI, USA.

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Now it is autumn and the falling fruit
and the long journey towards oblivion.

D.H. Lawrence

Last Poems

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Lawrence, D.H. "The Ship of Death." Last Poems, edited by Richard Aldington and Giuseppe Orioli. The Viking Press, 1932, stanza 1.

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Life Begins at Forty.

Walter B. Pitkin

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Pitkin, Walter B. Life Begins at Forty. Whittlesey House McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1932.

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Whether you are dealing with an animal or a child, to convince is to weaken.

Colette

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Colette. Le Pur et l'impur and Ces Plaisirs [The Pure and the Impure and These Pleasures]. J. Ferenczi & fils, 1932, ch. 9.

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Colette. The Pure and the Impure. NYRB Classics, 2000, ch. 9.

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Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to give it true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will to live.

Albert Schweitzer

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Schweitzer, Albert. Aus Meinem Leben und Denken [Out of My Life and Thought]. Leipzig: Felix Meiner Verlag, 1931, ch. 13.

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Schweitzer, Albert. Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography, translated by Antji Bultmann Lemke. Johns Hopkins University, 2009, ch. 13.

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I think I'll miss you most of all.

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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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Mao Zedong

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Zedong, Mao. "On Protracted Warfare." Yenan Association for the Study of the War of Resistance Against Japan. 26 May - 3 June 1938, Yenan, China. Lecture series.

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Did you ever think of marrying just for fun?

Rhett Butler

Gone with the Wind

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Gone with the Wind. Directed by Victor Fleming. Selznick International Pictures/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

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How fickle is woman.

Rhett Butler

Gone with the Wind

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Gone with the Wind. Directed by Victor Fleming. Selznick International Pictures/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

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Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind

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Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Macmillan Publishers, 1936, pt. 5, ch. 53.

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Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Scribner, 2007, pt. 5, ch. 53.

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My goodness, what a fuss you're making! Well naturally, when you go around picking on things weaker than you are. Why, you're nothing but a great big coward!

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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Well, I guess you can't break out of prison and into society in the same week.

Stagecoach

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Stagecoach. Directed by John Ford, Walter Wanger Productions, 1939.

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Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

George Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London

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Orwell, George. Down and Out in Paris and London. Victor Gollancz, 1933, ch. 3.

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