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Marley, Bob and Peter Tosh. "Get Up, Stand Up." Performed by Bob Marley and the Wailers. Burnin'. Tuff Gong/Island Records, 1973.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's been some kind of pain.

Bob Dylan

Not Dark Yet

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Dylan, Bob. "Not Dark Yet." Time Out of Mind. Columbia Records, 1997.

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Hemingway, Ernest. "A Farewell to Arms." Scribner's Magazine, May 1929 - Oct. 1929, bk. 4, ch. 34.

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Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. Scribners, 1995, bk. 4, ch. 34.

Our chief want in life is, somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Considerations by the Way

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Considerations by the Way." The Conduct of Life. Boston: Ticknor & Fields/London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1860.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Considerations by the Way." The Conduct of Life, edited by Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, and Douglas Emory Wilson. Vol. 6, Belknap Press, 2004.

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Jagger, Mick and Keith Richards. "You Can't Always Get What You Want." Performed by The Rolling Stones. Let It Bleed. Decca Records, 1969.

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Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. London: John Murray, 1812-1818, canto 2, st. 76.

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Lord Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 2, st. 76.

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Blake, William. "On Another's Sorrow." Songs of Innocence. London, 1789.

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Blake, William. "On Anothers Sorrow." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Fragment: On Government." 1 July 1854?

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Fragment on Government, 1854?" Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul,
Wisdom is better than silver and gold.

Bob Marley

Zion Train

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Marley, Bob. "Zion Train." Performed by Bob Marley and the Wailers. Uprising. Tuff Gong/Island Records, 1980.

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Blake, William. "A Poison Tree." Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. London, 1794.

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Blake, William. "A Poison Tree." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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Carroll, Lewis. Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: Macmillan, 1871, ch. 4.

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Carroll, Lewis. "Through the Looking-Glass." Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass. Macmillan Collector's Library, 2016, ch. 4.

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Locke, John, [published anonymously]. "Second Treatise of Government." Two Treatises of Government. London: Awnsham Churchill, 1690, ch. 6, sect. 57.

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Locke, John. "The Second Treatise of Government." The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration. Oxford University Press, 2016, ch. 6, sect. 57.

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Paine, Thomas [published anonymously]. Common Sense. Philadelphia: R. Bell, sect. 4.

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Paine, Thomas. "Common Sense." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009, sect. 4.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Tender is the Night." Scribner's Magazine, Jan. 1934 - Apr. 1934.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Scribners, 1995, ch. 18.

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Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman. 1892, St James's Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

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Wilde, Oscar. "Lady Windermere's Fan." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 3.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, pt. 1.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 1.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Economy." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

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Swift, Jonathan. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships. London: Benjamin Motte, 1726, pt. 3, ch. 6.

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Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels, edited by Albert J. Rivero. W. W. Norton & Company, 2001, pt. 3, ch. 6.

You gotta fight
For your right
To party.

Beastie Boys

Fight For Your Right

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Rubin, Rick and Adam Yauch and Adam Horovitz. "Fight for Your Right." Performed by Beastie Boys. Licensed to Ill. Def Jam Recordings/Columbia Records, 1986.