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Mussolini, Benito. Speech in Italy. 26 May 1934, Chamber of Deputies, Palazzo Montecitorio, Rome, Italy.

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Einstein, Albert. "What I Believe. Living Philosophies 13." Forum and Century, Oct. 1930, vol. 84, issue 4, pp. 193-194.

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Eliot, T. S. “Burnt Norton.” Collected Poems 1909–1935. Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1936, pt. 5.

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Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Macmillan Publishers, 1936, pt. 2, ch. 9.

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Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Scribner, 2007, pt. 2, ch. 9.

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Hemingway, Ernest. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." Scribner's Magazine, Mar. 1933.

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Hemingway, Ernest. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. Scribner, 1998.

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Speech accepting renomination as president. Democratic National Convention. 27 June 1936, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.

Clare Harner

Immortality

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Harner, Clare. "Immortality." The Gypsy, Dec. 1934.

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Wodehouse, P. G. The Code of the Woosters. Herbert Jenkins, 1938. Originally published in The Saturday Evening Post, 16 July 1938 - 3 Sept. 1938.

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Selassie, Haile. Appeal to the League of Nations. 30 June 1936, League of Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.

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De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Vol de Nuit [Night Flight]. Éditions Gallimard, 1931, ch. 14.

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Kafka, Franz. Betrachtungen über Sünde, Leid, Hoffnung und den wahren Weg [Reflections on Sin, Pain, Hope and the True Way]. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1931, no. 109.

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Wharton, Edith. "A First Word." A Backward Glance. D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934.

Patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

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Nathan, George Jean. Testament of a Critic. A. A. Knopf, 1931, bk. 1.

This universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.

John H. Holmes

The Sensible Man's View of Religion

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Holmes, John H. The Sensible Man's View of Religion. Harper & Brothers, 1932, ch. 4.

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

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Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937, ch. 19.

When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.

George Orwell

Shooting an Elephant

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Orwell, George. "Shooting an Elephant." New Writing, no. 2, Autumn 1936.

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Orwell, George. "Shooting and Elephant." The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 1: An Age Like This 1920-1940. David R. Godine, 2019, no. 88.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1937, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Second Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, January 20, 1937." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

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Faulkner, William. Light in August. Smith & Haas, 1932, ch. 4.

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Faulkner, William. Light in August, edited by Melanie Taylor. W. W. Norton & Company, 2022, ch. 4.

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Roosevelt, Eleanor. This Is My Story. Harper & Brothers, 1937.