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What is hell?
Hell is oneself,
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

T.S. Eliot

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Eliot, T. S. The Cocktail Party. 1949, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 1, sc. 5.

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We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it.

Joe Namath

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Predicting a Jets Super Bowl victory.

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Namath, Joe. Namath's guarantee to win Superbowl III. Awards dinner. 9 Jan. 1969, Miami Touchdown Club, Miami, FL, USA.

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Namath, Joe. All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters. Little, Brown and Company, 2019.

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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Elizabeth Appell

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Appell, Elizabeth. “Risk.” John F Kennedy University Newsletter, Jan. 1979.

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The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers... Of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good... They were absolutely one soul as they looked at the problem. This, according to Plato, is the only real friendship, the only real common good. It is here that the contact people so desperately seek is to be found.

Allan Bloom

The Closing of the American Mind

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Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. Simon & Schuster, 1987, conclusion.

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I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.

Muriel Strode

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Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers

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Strode, Muriel. "Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers." The Open Court, 1903.

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Come on down to my apartment-I want to show you some remarkably fine etchings I just bought.

Dorothy Parker

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Parker, Dorothy. New Yorker. c. 25 July 1931.

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Alcohol is like love...The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

Raymond Chandler

The Long Goodbye

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Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton/Houghton Mifflin, 1953, ch. 4.

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Hello babies. Welcome to earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies- "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

Kurt Vonnegut

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Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965, ch. 7.

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Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Buckminster Fuller

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Fuller, Richard Buckminster. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Simon and Schuster, 1969, ch. 4.

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Longing on a large scale is what makes history.

Don DeLillo

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DeLillo, Don. Underworld. Scribner, 1997, prologue.

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Making the decision to have a child-it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Elizabeth Stone

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Stone, Elizabeth. Quoted in "No Kids." Written by Ellen Cantarow. The Village Voice, c. 1985.

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Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver

The Uses of Sorrow

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Oliver, Mary. “The Uses of Sorrow.” Thirst. Beacon Press, 2006, I. 1.

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Some folks are born made to wave the flag,
Ooh, that red, white, and blue.
And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief,"
Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord,
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no senator's son, no.
It ain't me, it ain't me
I ain't no fortunate one.

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Fortunate Son

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Fogerty, John. "Fortunate Son." Performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Willy and the Poor Boys. Fantasy Records, 1969.

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A bird does not sing
because he has an answer.
He sings
because he has a song.

Joan Walsh Anglund

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Anglund, Joan Walsh. A Cup of Sun: A Book of Poems. Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1967.

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I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.

William Lloyd Garrison

To the Public

On American slavery.

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Garrison, William Lloyd. "To the Public." The Liberator, 1 Jan. 1831.

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Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima... The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East.

Harry Truman

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Truman, Harry S. First announcement of the atomic bomb. 6 Aug. 1945, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

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Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war let it begin here!

John Parker

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Parker, John. To his Minute Men at Lexington, Massachusetts. Battle of Lexington. 19 Apr. 1775, Lexington Green, Lexington, MA, USA.

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In other words, the First Amendment has a penumbra where privacy is protected from governmental intrusion.

William O. Douglas

Grisworld v. Connecticut

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Douglas, William O. United States, Supreme Court. Griswold v. Connecticut. United States Reports, vol. 381, 7 June 1965, pp. 479–531. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/381/479/.

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