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A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The Revolt of the Masses

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Ortega y Gasset, Jose. La Rebelion de las Masas [The Revolt of the Masses.] El Sol, 1929, serial.

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Ortega y Gasset, Jose. The Revolt of the Masses. W. W. Norton & Company, 1994, ch. 10.

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The artist must take sides.

Paul Robeson

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Robeson, Paul. "The Artist Must Take Sides." National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief in aid of the Spanish Refugee Children. 24 June 1937, Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK.

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Well, they're saved from the blessings of civilization.

Stagecoach

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

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Crack-Up." Esquire, Feb. 1936.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Crack-Up." My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940, edited by James L.W. West, III. Cambridge UP, 2005.

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Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'tis the only thing in this world that lasts...'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for—worth dying for.

Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind

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Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Macmillan Publishers, 1936, pt. 1, ch. 2.

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Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Scribner, 2007, pt. 1, ch. 2.

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Nor dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all.

W.B. Yeats

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Yeats, William Butler. "Death." The Winding Stair and Other Poems. Macmillan and Company, 1933, I. 1.

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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Quoted in Beloved Infidel: The Education of a Woman, written by Sheilah Graham and Gerold Frank. Henry Holt, 1958, ch. 22.

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It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Dolores Ibarruri

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Ibarruri, Dolores. Speech delivered at a mass meeting. 3 Sept. 1936, Winter Velodrome, Paris, France.

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He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him look at the works.

Dashiell Hammett

Black Mask

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Hammett, Dashiell. "The Maltese Falcon." Black Mask, Sept. 1929 - Jan. 1930. Serial.

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Hammett, Dashiell. "The Maltese Falcon." The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest. Everyman's Library, 2000, ch. 7.

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The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Address at Oglethorpe University. 22 May 1932, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

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Angel, ha! She's a female! And all females is poison! They're full of wicked wiles!

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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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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Brecht, Bertolt. Die Mutter. Leben der Revolutionärin Pelagea Wlassowa aus Twer [The mother. Life of the Revolutionary Pelagea Vlassova from Tver]. 17 Jan. 1932, Komödienhaus am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin, Germany.

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Brecht, Bertolt. The Mother. Grove Press, 1994.

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When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

C.L.R. James

The Black Jacobins

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James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. Secker & Warburg, 1938, ch. 5.

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If talk was money, Doc, you'd be the best customer I got.

Stagecoach

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

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That toil of growing up;
The ignominy of boyhood; the distress
Of boyhood changing into man;
The unfinished man and his pain.

W.B. Yeats

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Yeats, William Butler. "A Dialogue of Self and Soul." The Winding Stair and Other Poems. The Macmillan Company, 1933, pt. 2, st. 1.

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Yeats, William Butler. "A Dialogue of Self and Soul." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Elizabeth Bowen

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The House in Paris

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Bowen, Elizabeth. The House in Paris. Gollancz/Knopf, 1935.

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Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The Revolt of the Masses

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Ortega y Gasset, Jose. La Rebelion de las Masas [The Revolt of the Masses.] El Sol, 1929, serial.

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Ortega y Gasset, Jose. The Revolt of the Masses. W. W. Norton & Company, 1994, ch. 8.

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A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.

The Wizard of Oz

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

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Fallacies, which do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

G.K. Chesterton

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Chesterton, G.K. "Novels on the Great War." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 35, Ignatius Press, 1986. Originally published by Illustrated London News, 19 Apr. 1930.

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