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Wit is the only wall
Between us and the dark.

Mark Van Doren

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Doren, Mark Van. "Wit." Collected Poems 1922–1938. Henry Holt & Company, 1939, st. 1.

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By the time you say you're his,
Shivering and sighing
And he vows his passion is
Infinite, undying-
Lady, make a note of this:
One of you is lying.

Dorothy Parker

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Parker, Dorothy. "Unfortunate Coincidence." Enough Rope. Boni & Liveright, 1926.

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It was great fun,
But it was just one of those things.

Cole Porter

Just One of Those Things

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Porter, Cole. "Just One of Those Things." Jubilee. Performed by June Knight and Charles Walters. 1935, Shubert Theatre, Boston, MA, USA.

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The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

Aldous Huxley

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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. 1.

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair

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Sinclair, Upton. I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked. Farrar & Rinehart, 1935.

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Kitsch is mechanical and operates by formulas. Kitsch is vicarious experience and faked sensations... Kitsch is the epitome of all that is spurious in the life of our times.

Clement Greenberg

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Greenberg, Clement. "Avant-Garde and Kitsch." Partisan Review, 1939.

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One of the main effects…of orthodox traditional economics was…a plan for explaining to the privileged class that their position was morally right and was necessary for the welfare of society.

Joan Robinson

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Robinson, Joan. "An Economist's Sermon." Essays in the Theory of Employment. Macmillan, 1937.

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Heaven,-I'm in heaven-And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we're out together dancing, cheek to cheek.

Fred Astaire

Cheek to Cheek

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Berlin, Irving. "Cheek-to-Cheek." Top Hat. Directed by Mark Sandrich. Performed by Fred Astaire. RKO Radio Pictures, 1935.

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Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in a bed.

Charles Lindbergh

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Lindbergh, Charles. Journal entry. 26 Aug. 1938.

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All genuine political theories presuppose man to be evil, i. E., by no means an unproblematic but a dangerous and dynamic being.

Carl Schmitt

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The Concept of the Political

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Schmitt, Carl. Der Begriff des Politischen [The Concept of the Political]. Duncker & Humblot, 1932, sect. 7.

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Schmitt, Carl. The Concept of the Political, translated by George Schwab. University of Chicago Press, 2007, sect. 7.

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It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.

Louis Brandeis

New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann

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Brandeis, Louis. Dissenting Opinion. New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann. United States Reports, vol. 285, 21 Mar. 1932, pp. 280-311. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/285/262/.

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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

Heywood Broun

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Broun, Heywood. "A New Preface to an Old Story." Broun's Nutmeg, 19 Aug. 1939.

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The African is conditioned, by the cultural and social institutions of centuries, to a freedom of which Europe has little conception, and it is not in his nature to accept serfdom for ever. He realizes that he must fight unceasingly for his own emancipation; for without this he is doomed to remain the prey of rival imperialisms.

Jomo Kenyatta

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Facing Mount Kenya

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Kenyatta, Jomo. Facing Mount Kenya. Secker and Warburg, 1938, conclusion.

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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests has said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits to thought." The Greeks said, "All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set to thought."

Edith Hamilton

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The Greek Way

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Hamilton, Edith. The Greek Way. W. W. Norton & Company, 1930, ch. 2.

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Don't sell the steak; sell the sizzle. It is the sizzle that sells the steak and not the cow, although the cow is, of course, mighty important.

Elmer Wheeler

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Wheeler, Elmer. "Wheelerpoint #1." Tested Sentences that Sell. Prentice-Hall, 1937.

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Georgia, Georgia, no peace I find,
Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind.

Ray Charles

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Georgia on my Mind

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Gorrell, Stuart. "Georgia on My Mind." Composed by Hoagy Carmichael. Performed by Ray Charles. The Genius Hits the Road. ABC Records, 1960.

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Democracies cannot dispense with hypocrisy any more than dictatorships can with cynicism.

Georges Bernanos

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Bernanos, Georges. Nous Autres Francais. Gallimard, 1939.

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I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.

Georges Duhamel

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Duhamel, Georges. Le Desert de Bievre [The Desert of Bièvres]. Mercure de France, 1937, ch. 2.

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They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round
They all laughed when Edison recorded sound
They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother
When they said that man could fly;
They told Marconi
Wireless was a phony-
It's the same old cry!

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Gershwin, Ira. "They All Laughed." Shall We Dance. Composed by George Gershwin. Performed by Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. RKO Radio Pictures, 1937.

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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Lewis Mumford

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Mumford, Lewis. The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931.

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