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The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.

Ruth Benedict

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Patterns of Culture

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Benedict, Ruth. Patterns of Culture. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934, ch. 1.

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Immunities that are valid as against the federal government by force of the specific pledges of particular amendments have been found to be implicit in the concept of ordered liberty, and thus, through the Fourteenth Amendment, become valid as against the states.

Benjamin Cardozo

Palko v. Connecticut

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Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan. United States, Supreme Court. Palko v. Connecticut. United States Reports, vol. 302, 6 Dec. 1937, pp. 319-329. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/302/319/.

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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Smith, Logan Pearsall. "Life and Human Nature." Afterthoughts. Constable & Company, 1931.

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We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky-and it would be so much less fun if we were... Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily.

Jean Rhys

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Rhys, Jean. Good Morning, Midnight. Constable Press, 1939.

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Rhys, Jean. Good Morning, Midnight. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.

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It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true…But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.

Alfred North Whitehead

Adventures of Ideas

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Whitehead, Alfred North. Adventures of Ideas. The Macmillan Company/Simon and Schuster, 1933, ch. 16, sec. 3.

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If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Carl Jung

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Jung, Carl. The Integration of Personality, translated by Stanley Dell. Farrar & Rinehart, 1939.

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The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
You're one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,
A wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you're two months back in the middle of March.

Robert Frost

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Frost, Robert. "Two Tramps in Mud Time." Saturday Review of Literature, 6 Oct. 1934, st. 3.

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In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Nikola Tesla

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Tesla, Nikola. "A Machine to End War." Interviewed by George Sylvester Viereck. Liberty Magazine, 9 Feb. 1935.

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We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Bill Wilson

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Wilson, Bill. Alcoholics Anoymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism. Works Publishing Co., 1939, ch. 5.

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Business is built by men who care-care enough to disagree, fight it out to a finish, get facts. When two men always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

William Wrigley Jr.

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Wrigley, William Jr. "Spunk Never Cost Man a Job Worth Having." Interviewed by Neil M. Clark. The American Magazine, Mar. 1931.

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For over against the convenience of instantaneous communication is the fact that the great economical abstractions of writing, reading, and drawing, the media of reflective thought and deliberate action, will be weakened.

Lewis Mumford

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Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization. Harcourt, Brace and Company/Routledge, 1934, ch. 5, sect. 7.

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My funny valentine,
Sweet comic valentine,
You make me smile with my heart.
Your looks are laughable,
Unphotographable,
Yet you're my fav'rite work of art.

Lorenz Milton Hart

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Hart, Lorenz. "My Funny Valentine." Babes in Arms. Composed by Richard Rodgers. 14 Apr. 1937, Shubert Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.

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The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of "The Reasonable Man.".... He is an ideal, a standard, the embodiment of all those qualities which we demand of the good citizen.

A.P. Herbert

The Reasonable Man

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Herbert, A. P. "The Reasonable Man." Uncommon Law. Methuen, 1935.

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Scarlett! Look at me! I love you more than I've ever loved any woman and I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any 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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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

George Orwell

The Road to Wigan Pier

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Orwell, George. The Road to Wigan Pier. Victor Gollancz, 1937, pt. 2, ch. 11.

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The first draft of anything is shit.

Ernest Hemingway

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Hemmingway, Ernest. Quoted in With Hemmingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba, by Arnold Samuelson. Random House, 1984.

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The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want.

Dale Carnegie

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How to Win Friends and Influence People

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Carnegie, Dale. How to Win Friends and Influence People. Simon & Schuster, 1936.

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Liberalism is extremely harmful in a revolutionary collective. It is corrosive which eats away unity, undermines cohesion, causes apathy, and creates dissension.

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Zedong, Mao. Combat Liberalism. 1937.

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I write about little things because the big ones are like abysses.

Anaïs Nin

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Nin, Anaïs. "November, 1934." The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 1, 1931-1934, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann. Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, 1966.

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