1970s

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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Martin Mulll

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Mull, Martin. Quoted in Detroit Free Press. 18 Feb. 1979.

But sport doesn’t build character....sports reveals character.

Heywood Hale Broun

Quoted in The Evening Press

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Broun, Heywood. Spoken during a speech in Ames, Iowa. Jan. 1974, Ames, IA, USA.

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Gould, Stephen Jay. "Velikovsky In Collision." Natural History, Mar. 1975.

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Friedman, Milton. Quoted in "Facing Inflation: Interview with Milton Friedman." Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs. Routledge, Nov.-Dec. 1973, p. 20.

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Williams, Tennessee. "Tennessee Williams: Past and Present." Interviewed by Charles Ruas and Bill Lentch, WBAI-FM New York, 12 Dec. 1975.

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Adams, Douglas. "Fit the Fifth." The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Primary Phase. BBC Radio 4, London, England, UK, 5 Apr. 1978.

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Adams, Douglas. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Pan Books, 1980, ch. 1.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

Walt Kelly

The cartoon-strip character, Pogo the opossum, looking at litter under a tree. Used as an Earth Day poster in 1971.

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Kelly, Walt. "We Have Met the Enemy…" Pogo. 22 Apr. 1970. Poster.

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Canetti, Elias. Die Provinz des Menschen: Aufzeichnungen 1942-1972. Hanser, 1973.

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Carter, Jimmy. "The Playboy Interview with Jimmy Carter." Interviewed by Robert Scheer. Playboy Magazine, 1 Nov. 1976.

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Strand, Mark. "Untelling the Hour." Acts of Mind: Conversations with Contemporary Poets. University of Alabama Press, 1983. Originally an interview called "Untelling the Hour." Interviewed by Richard Jackson. The Poetry Miscellany, c. 1979.

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Silverstein, Shel. "Listen to the Mustn’ts." Where the Sidewalk Ends. Harper & Row, 1974, I. 1.

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Adams, Douglas. "Fit the Fifth." The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Primary Phase. BBC Radio 4, London, England, UK, 5 Apr. 1978.

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Adams, Douglas. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Pan Books, 1980, ch. 18.

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Magritte, Rene. Quoted in Magritte by Suzy Grablik. New York Graphic Society, 1970.

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.

Richard Bach

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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Bach, Richard. Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The Macmillan Company, 1970, pt. 3.

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. Python (Monty) Pictures/Michael White Productions/National Film Trustee Company, 1975.

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty.

Philippe Ariès

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Aries, Philippe. Western Attitudes Toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974.

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Clarke, Arthur C. "Clarke's Third Law on UFOs." Science Magazine, 19 Jan. 1968.

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Vidal, Gore. "H. Hughes." The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 1972.

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Sontag, Susan. "Melancholy Objects." The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 1974.