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It'll play in Peoria.

John Ehrlichman

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Ehrichman, John. Quoted in "The Middle American Who Edits Ideas for Nixon." Written by Robert B. Semple, Jr. The New York Times, 12 Apr. 1970. Originally spoken to a newsman in 1969 in Washington, DC, USA.

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Hedberg, Mitch. Comedy Central Presents. Comedy Central, 5 Jan. 1999.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

Sherwood Anderson

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Anderson, Sherwood. "Tandy." Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life. B. W. Huebsch, 1919.

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Anderson, Sherwood. "Tandy." Winesburg, Ohio, edited by Marc K. Dudley. W. W. Norton & Company, 2023.

Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.

George Perkins Marsh

Man and Nature

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Marsh, George Perkins. Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action. New York: Charles Scribner, 1864, ch. 1.

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Marsh, George Perkins. Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action. Dover Publications, 2021, ch. 1.

The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of city architecture.

Philip C. Johnson

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Johnson, Philip C. "The Town and the Automobile or the Pride of Elm Street." Writings. Oxford University Press, 1979.

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Johnson, Lyndon B. Lyndon Johnson demanding loyalty from a potential White House hire. c. 1967, Washington, DC, USA.

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Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1899, ch. 39.

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Chopin, Kate. "The Awakening." The Awakening and Selected Stories. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 39.

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Lebowitz, Fran. "People." Social Studies. Random House, 1981.

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Dworkin, Andrea. Pornography: Men Possessing Women. Putnam, 1981.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"

John Greenleaf Whittier

Maud Muller

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Wittier, John Greenleaf. "Maud Muller." The Panorama and Other Poems. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856, st. 53.

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Wittier, John Greenleaf. "Maud Muller." John Greenleaf Whittier: Selected Poems. Library of America, 2004.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

John Updike

Couples

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Updike, John. Couples. Alfred A. Knopf, 1968, ch. 5.

I've always wanted to be somebody. But I see now I should have been more specific.

Lily Tomlin

The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

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Wagner, Jane. "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe." Performed by Lily Tomlin. 1985, Plymouth Theater, New York City, NY, USA.

A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."

Stephen Crane

A Man Said to the Universe

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Crane, Stephen. "A Man Said to the Universe." War is Kind and Other Lines. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1899, I. 1.

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Crane, Stephen. "A Man Said to the Universe." War is Kind and Other Lines. Dover Publications, 2016, I. 1.

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Maslow, Abraham. The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance. Harper & Row, 1966, foreword.

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James, William. The Principles of Psychology. Vol. 1, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890, ch. 13.

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Patton, George Smith. "Mechanized Forces." Jan. 1933, Fort Myer, VA, USA. Lecture.

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Anderson, Marian. Quoted in Ladies' Home Journal. Sept. 1960.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Early Forms of Liability." 23 Nov. 1880, The Lowell Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Early Forms of Liability." The Common Law. Belknap Press, 2009.

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Stevenson, Adlai. Speech in Switzerland. Economic and Social Council of United Nations meeting. 9 July 1965, Geneva, Switzerland.

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Maslow, Abraham. The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance. Harper & Row, 1966, ch. 3.