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Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

Hannah Arendt

The Human Condition

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Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. University of Chicago Press, 1958, ch. 6.

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Einstein, Albert. "The Death of a Genius." Interviewed by William Miller. Life Magazine, 2 May 1955.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Maxim no. 396. c. 1832.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Maxims and Reflections, translated by Elizabeth Stopp, edited by Peter Hutchinson. Penguin Books, 2005, no. 396.

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Brecht, Bertolt. "An die Nachgeborenen [To Those Born Later]." Die Neue Weltbühne, June 1939.

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Arendt, Hannah. "On Violence." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972, ch. 2. Originally published as "A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence." by The New York Review, 27 Feb. 1969.

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Einstein, Albert. Quoted in Einstein on Peace, edited by Otto Nathan and Heinz Norden. Simon and Schuster, 1960, ch. 9. Originally from Letter to Franklin Roosevelt, 2 Aug. 1939.

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Einstein, Albert. Address in Paris. c. Dec. 1929, Sorbonne, Paris, France.

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Einstein, Albert. "Einstein on Classifications." New York Times, 16 Feb. 1930.

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Einstein, Albert. "What I Believe. Living Philosophies 13." Forum and Century, Oct. 1930, vol. 84, issue 4, pp. 193-194.

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Wagner, Richard. Oper und Drama [Opera and Drama]. Leipzig: J. J. Weber, 1852.

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Wagner, Richard. Opera and Drama, translated by William Ashton Ellis. University of Nebraska Press, 1995.

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Engels, Frederick. Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England [The Condition of the Working Class in England]. Leipzig: Otto Wigand, 1845, ch. 7.

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Engels, Frederick. The Condition of the Working Class in England, translated by Mrs. F. Kelley Wischnewetzy, edited by David McLellan. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 7.

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Hegel, G. W. F. Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts [Fundamentals of the Philosophy of Law]. c. 1820, sect. 318.

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Hegel, G. W. F. Outlines of the Philosophy of Right, translated by T. M. Knox. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Frederick the Great. Letter to Voltaire. 19 Mar. 1771.

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Einstein, Albert. "The Goal of Human Existence." NBC Broadcast for the United Jewish Appeal. 11 Apr. 1943.

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Einstein, Albert. "The Goal of Human Existence." Out of My Later Years. Philosophical Library, 2015, ch. 51.

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Von der Vogelweide, Walther. Traumdeutung [Dream Song]. c. 1230, st. 1.

I believe that humor is a part of beauty.

Max Beckmann

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Beckmann, Max. "August 23, 1903." Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950, edited by Barbara Copeland Buenger, University of Chicago Press, 1997, p. 27.

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Arendt, Hannah. The Life of the Mind. Vol. 1. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977, ch. 18.

Germany above all.

August Heinrich Hoffman [von Fallersleben]

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Hoffmann, August Heinrich. "Das Lied der Deutschen [The Song of the Germans]." Composed by Joseph Haydn. 1841.

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Einstein, Albert. Quoted in The Universe and Dr. Eistein. Written by Lincoln Barnett. Sloane, 1950. Originally printed in Harpers, 1948.

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Brecht, Bertolt. Die Dreigroschenoper [The Threepenny Opera]. 31 Aug. 1928, Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin, Germany, act 2, sc. 6.

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Brecht, Bertolt. The Threepenny Opera. Grove Press, 1994, act 2, sc. 6.

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Mann, Thomas. Der Zauberberg [The Magic Mountain]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1924, ch. 6.

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Mann, Thomas. The Magic Mountain. Everyman's Library, 2005, ch. 6.