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Milk, Harvey. Speech to the Joint International Longshoremen & Warehousemen's Union of San Francisco and to the Lafayette Club. 30 Sept. 1973, San Francisco, CA, USA.

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Hoffer, Eric. Reflections on the Human Condition. Harper & Row, 1973, no. 172.

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Heller, Joseph. Conversations with Joseph Heller, edited by Adam J. Sorkin. University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Originally spoken during an interview by Sam Merrill. Playboy, June 1975.

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Whalen, Philip. Scenes of Life at the Capital. Maya Quartos, 1970.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass-which is better than trying to fill them.

Emil Cioran

The Trouble With Being Born

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Cioran, Emil. De I’inconvenient d’etre ne [The Trouble with Being Born]. Arcade Publishing, 1973, ch. 1.

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Jong, Erica. Fear of Flying. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973, ch. 10.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

Fred Hoyle

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Hoyle, Fred. "Sayings of the Week." The Observer, 9 Sept. 1979.

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Mandelstam, Nadezhda. Hope Abandoned. Collins & Harvill Press/Atheneum Books, ch. 6.

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Rich, Adrienne. "Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying." Women's Writing Workshop. June 1975, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, USA.

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Cardenal, Ernesto. Canto nacional. Ediciones Carlos Loblé, 1973.

Too often we give our children the answers to remember rather than the problems to solve.

Roger Lewin

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Lewin, Roger. "Observing the Brain Through a Cat's Eyes." The Saturday Review, 5 Oct. 1974.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

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Eban, Abba. Speech in London. 16 Dec. 1970, London, England, UK.

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Priestley, J. B. New Statesman. 10 Dec. 1971.

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Fairlie, Henry. "Lust or Luxuria." The Seven Deadly Sins Today. New Republic Books, 1978.

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Breslin, Jimmy. How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes from an Impeachment Summer. Viking Press, 1975, ch. 2.

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Weinberg, Steven. The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe. Basic Books, 1977, epilogue.

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Giamatti, A. Bartlett. "The Green Fields of the Mind." The Yale Alumni Magazine, 1977.

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Sheed, Wilfrid. The Good Word & Other Words. E. P. Dutton, 1978, pt. 1, ch. 12.

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Trumbo, Dalton. Speech accepting an award from the Writers' Guild. 13 Mar. 1970, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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Trumbo, Dalton. Quoted in Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical, written by Larry Ceplair and Christopher Trumbo. University Press of Kentucky, 2015, ch. 22.

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Thomas, Lewis. "The World's Biggest Membrane." The New England Journal of Medicine, 13 Sept. 1973.