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The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

L.P. Hartley

The Go-Between

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Hartley, L. P. The Go-Between. Hamish Hamilton, 1953, preface.

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Dior, Christian. Quoted in Dior by Christian Dior, written by Olivier Saillard. Assouline, 2017.

A man without faith is like a fish without a bicycle.

Charles S. Harris

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Harris, Charles S. Quoted in The Swarthmore Phoenix. 7 April 1958.

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Lec, Stanislaw. Unkempt Thoughts, translated by Jacek Galazka. St. Martin's Press, 1962. Originally published as Myśli nieuczesane [Uncombed Thoughts]. Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1957.

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Parkinson, C. Northcote. Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress. John Murray, 1958, ch. 1. Originally published in The Economist, Nov. 1955.

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.

Terry Tempest Williams

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Williams, Terry Tempest. Statement regarding the Utah public lands management act of 1995. 13 July 1995, Washington, DC, USA.

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Steinbeck, John. Letter to Adlai Stevenson. 5 Nov. 1959.

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Thompson, Hunter S. “Security.” The Spectator, 1951.

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Brecht, Bertolt. "Die Lösung [The Solution]." Die Welt, 1959.

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Lewis, C.S. "16 March 1955." Letters of C.S. Lewis, edited by W.H. Lewis. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1966. Originally from Letter to Mrs. Johnson, 16 Mar. 1955.

Some of my best friends are white boys.
When I meet 'em
I treat 'em
just the same as if they was people.

Ray Durem

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Durem, Ray. Broadminded. c. 1951.

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. Speech on domino theory. News conference. 7 Apr. 1954, Washington, DC, USA.

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Carson, Rachel. The Edge of the Sea. Houghton Mifflin, 1955, ch. 1.

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Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi. Il Gattopard [The Leopard]. Feltrinelli, 1958, ch. 2.

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Lampedusa, Giuseppe. The Leopard, translated by Archibald Colquhoun. Pantheon, 2007, ch. 2.

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Parkinson, C. Northcote. Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress. John Murray, 1958, ch. 10. Originally published as "Pension Point" in The Economist, c. 1958.

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High Noon. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Stanley Kramer Productions, 1952.

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Bradbury, Ray. "Usher II." The Martian Chronicles. Doubleday, 1950.