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Shakespeare, William. The Taming of the Shrew. London: Cuthbert Burbie, 1594, act 4, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Taming of the Shrew." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 2.

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Hitler, Adolf. Speech to the Reichstag. 26 Apr. 1942, Kroll Opera House, Berlin, Germany.

I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?"

Alan Turing

Computing Machinery and Intelligence

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Turing, Alan. "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." Mind. Oxford University Press, 1950.

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La Fontaine, Jean. "Le chene et le roseau [The Oak and the Reed]." Fables. Paris, 1668, bk. 1, no. 22.

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La Fontaine, Jean. "The Oak and the Reed." The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Norman R. Shapiro. University of Illinois Press, 2007, bk. 1, no. 22.

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Ortega y Gasset, Jose. La deshumanización del Arte e Ideas sobre la novela [The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel]. Revista de Occidente, 1925.

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Ortega y Gasset, Jose. "The Dehumanization of Art." The Dehumanization of Art, and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature, translated by Helene Weyl. Princeton University Press, 2019.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

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Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.

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Spinoza, Baruch. Tractatus Politicus [Political Treatise]. 1677, ch. 5, sect. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 4, sc. 5.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 5.

All we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

William Harvey

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Harvey, William. "Dedication to Dr. Argent and Other Learned Physicians." Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus [An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Living Beings]. Frankfurt: William Fitzer, 1628.

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Mussolini, Benito. "Fascismo [Fascism]: 'Forza e consenso [Strength and Consent].'" Enciclopedia Italiana [Italian Encyclopedia]. 1932.

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Camus, Albert. "The Sea Close By." Lyrical and Critical Essays. Vintage Books, 1970. Originally published in L'Eté [Summer]. Gallimard, 1954.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Karl Barth

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Barth, Karl. "The Righteousness of God." Das Wort Gottes und die Theologie [The Word of God and Theology]. Mchn., Kaiser, 1924. Originally a lecture called "The Righteousness of God" delivered 16 Jan. 1916 in City Church, Aarau, Switzerland.

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Shaw, George Bernard. The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet: A Sermon in Crude Melodrama. 10 Apr. 1909, Abby Theatre of Dublin, Liverpool, England, UK, pt. 1.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet." Playlets. Oxford University Press, 2021, pt. 1.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Discours sur l'origine et les fondemonts de l'inegalite parmi les hommes [Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men]. Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1755, pt. 2.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, translated by Donald A. Cress. Hackett, 1992, pt. 2.

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Camus, Albert. Le Mythe de Sisyphe [The Myth of Sisyphus]. Éditions Gallimard, 1942.

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Wilde, Oscar. Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas. Jan.-Mar. 1897.

People are not always what they seem.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Nathan the Wise

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Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. Nathan der Weise [Nathan the Wise]. 14 Apr. 1783, Dobbelinsches Theatre, Berlin, Germany, act 1, sc. 6.

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Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. Nathan the Wise, translated by William Taylor. Dover Publications, 2015, act 1, sc. 6.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty." The Strand Magazine. London, 1893.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Naval Treaty." The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2023.

The sons of torture-victims make good terrorists.

Andre Malraux

Man's Fate

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Malraux, Andre. La Condition humaine [The Human Condition]. Librairie Gallimard, 1933, pt. 4.

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Malraux, Andre. Man's Fate. Penguin Books, 2009, pt. 4.