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Hughes, Langston. "Let America Be America Again." Esquire Magazine, July 1936.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Tender is the Night." Scribner's Magazine, Jan. 1934 - Apr. 1934.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Scribners, 1995, ch. 14.

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Darrow, Clarence. Interview in Chicago. Apr. 1936.

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Campaign address. Democractic State Convention. 29 Sept. 1936, Syracuse, NY, USA.

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Jung, Carl. Lecture five of the Tavistock lectures. 1935, Tavistock Clinic, London, England, UK.

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Jung, Carl. The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings. Routledge, 2014, pt. 1, lecture 5.

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Radio address to the New York Herald Tribune Forum. 26 Oct. 1939, Washington, DC, USA.

The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.

Greta Garbo

Ninotchka

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Ninotchka. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

The law may... Depend on what the judge has had for breakfast.

Robert M. Hutchins

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Hutchins, Robert M. "The Autobiography of an Ex-Law Student." The University of Chicago Law Review, Mar. 1934. Originally a speech at The Association of American Law Schools meeting. Dec. 1933, Chicago, IL, USA.

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Huxley, Aldous. Ends and Means (an Enquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization). Chatto & Windus, 1937, ch. 8.

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Yeats, William Butler. "Vacillation." The Winding Stair and Other Poems. The Macmillan Company, 1933, pt. 5, st. 2.

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Yeats, William Butler. "Vacillation." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 5, st. 2.

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Parker, Dorothy. New Yorker. c. 25 July 1931.

Once we have power, we shall never again give it up, unless we are carried out as corpses from our offices.

Paul Joseph Goebbels

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Goebbels, Joseph. Diary entry. 6 Aug. 1932.

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Nin, Anaïs. "October, 1937." The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 2, 1934–1939, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann. Harcourt Brace & World, Inc., 1967.

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Patton, George Smith. "Mechanized Forces." Jan. 1933, Fort Myer, VA, USA. Lecture.

You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Max Ehrmann

Desiderata

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Ehrmann, Max. Desiderata. Michigan Tradesman, 5 Apr. 1933.

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Allan, Lewis. "Strange Fruit." Performed by Billie Holiday. Commodore Records, 1939.

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MacDiarmid, Hugh. "On a Raised Beach." Stony Limits and Other Poems. Victor Gollancz, 1934.

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Einstein, Albert. "Letter to his son Eduard." Quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster, 2007. Originally from Letter to his Son Eduard, 5 Feb. 1930.

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Freud, Sigmund. Das Unbehagen in der Kultur [The Discomfort in Culture]. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag Wien, 1930, pt. 8.

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Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents, translated by James Strachey. W. W. Norton & Company, 2021, pt. 8.