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Fox, Michael J. Quoted in The Most Important Thing I Know. Compiled by Lorne A. Adrain. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1997.

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Pinker, Steven. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined. Viking Books, 2011, preface.

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Cohen, Leonard. The Favourite Game. Secker and Warburg, 1963, bk. 2, ch. 19.

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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.

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

Glenn Gould

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Gould, Glenn. Commencement address. Commencement ceremony. 6 Nov. 1982, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Carrey, Jim. Commencement speech. Commencement ceremony. 30 May 2014, Maharishi International University of Management, Fairfield, IA, USA.

Look at that sea, girls-all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

L.M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables

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Montgomery, L. M. Anne of Green Gables. L. C. Page & Co., 1908.

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Montgomery, L. M. Anne of Green Gables. Puffin Books, 2014.

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Cohen, Leonard. The Favourite Game. Secker and Warburg, 1963, bk. 3, ch. 8.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

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Peter, Laurence J. The Peter Principle. William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1969, ch. 1.

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Cohen, Leonard. Quoted in "The Joking Troubadour of Gloom." The Daily Telegraph, 26 Apr. 1993.

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Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Culture of Contentment. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992, ch. 8.

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Crowfoot. Farewell to his people. 25 Apr. 1890, Blackfoot Crossing Historical Park, Alberta, Canada.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

Naomi Klein

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Klein, Naomi. "From Pots to Politics." The Guardian, 11 May 2003, www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/12/argentina.comment

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Osler, William. Science and Immortality. Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1904, ch. 2.

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Cohen, Leonard. "Hallelujah." Various Positions. Columbia Records, 1984.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock

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Leacock, Stephen. Garden of Folly. S. B. Gundy/Dodd, Mead and Company, 1924, ch. 4.

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McCrae, John. "In Flanders Fields." Punch, 8 Dec. 1915.

Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?

Gordon Lightfoot

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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Lightfoot, Gordon. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." Summertime Dream. Reprise Records, 1976.

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Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. McClelland and Stewart/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985, ch. 29.

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Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. McClelland and Stewart/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985, ch. 33.