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Magee, John Gillespie, Jr. "High Flight." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12 Nov. 1941.

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Adams, Franklin P. Nods and Becks. Whittlesey House, 1944.

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Baruch, Bernard M. Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. First session of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. 14 June 1946, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA.

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Priestley, J. B. "An Inspector Calls." Time and the Conways and Other Plays. Penguin Classics, 1994, act 3. Originally performed in 1945, Comedy Theatre in Leningrad, Moscow, Russia, act 3.

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Muller, H. J. Science and Criticism; the Humanistic Tradition in Contemporary Thought. Yale University Press/Oxford University Press, 1943, ch. 5.

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Frank, Anne. Journal entry. 22 May 1944.

Words…are loaded pistols.

Jean-Paul Sartre

What is Literature?

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Sartre, Jean Paul. Qu'est-ce que la littérature? [What is Literature?]. Situations, II. Gallimard, 1948, ch. 1.

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Sartre, Jean Paul. What is Literature? Routledge, 2001, ch. 1.

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Address to the Delegates of the American Youth Congress. 10 Feb. 1940, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Eleanor. "Intolerance." Cosmopolitan, Feb. 1940.

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Orwell, George. "The Art of Donald McGill." Horizon, Sept. 1941.

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Orwell, George. "The Art of Donald McGill." The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell, vol. 2: My Country Right or Left 1940-1943, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 2007, no. 27, pt. 4.

Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not and shall not die.

Charles de Gaulle

Appeal of 18 June

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De Gaulle, Charles. L'Appel du 18 juin [The Appeal of 18 June]. BBC, 18 June 1940.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Nancy Mitford

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Mitford, Nancy. The Pursuit of Love. Hamish Hamilton, 1945, ch. 1.

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Chester W. Nimitz

Describing the battle of Iwo Jima.

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Nimitz, Chester W. Statement after the Battle of Iwo Jima. c. 1945, Iwo Jima, Tokyo, Japan.

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Truman, Harry S. Statement announcing recognition of the State of Israel. 14 May 1948, Washington, DC, USA.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

No Mean City

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Strunsky, Simeon. No Mean City. E.P. Dutton, 1944, ch. 38.

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McCullers, Carson. "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." Harper's Bazaar, 1943.

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McCullers, Carson. "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe and Other Stories. Mariner Books, 2005.

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Rope. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Transatlantic Pictures, 1948.

At present an iron curtain of silence has descended, cutting off the Russian zone from the Western Allies.

T. St. Vincent Troubridge

A Curtain Across Europe

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Troubridge, Thomas. "A Curtain Across Europe." Empire News, 21 Oct. 1945.

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Hardy, G. H. A Mathematician's Apology. Cambridge University Press, 1940.

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Frank, Anne. Journal entry. 5 Apr. 1944.