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Mencken, Henry Louis. "Arcana Coelestia." A Mencken Chrestomathy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1949, ch. 30.

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Jong, Erica. How to Save Your Own Life. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977.

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Mencken, Henry Louis. A Mencken Chrestomathy. Alfred A. Knopf, 1949, ch. 30. Originally published in A Little Book in C Major, published by John Lane Co., 1916, ch. 2.

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Mencken, Henry Louis. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010, ch. 14, sec. 3. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1922.

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Marquis, Donald. "Certain Maxims of Archy." Archy and Mehitabel. The Evening Sun, c. 1927.

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Niebuhr, Reinhold. The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944.

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Peele, George. The Hunting of Cupid. c. 1591.

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Greenberg, Clement. "Avant-Garde and Kitsch." Partisan Review, 1939.

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Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Pantheon Books, 1949, prologue.

I define a recession as when your neighbor loses his job, but a depression is when you lose your own.

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Beck, Dave. Quoted in Time. 22 Feb. 1954.

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Bolt, Robert. A Man for All Seasons. 1 July 1960, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2.

Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permits.

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The Spirit of the Laws

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Secondat, Charles Baron de Montesquieu [published anonymously]. L'Esprit de Lois [The Spirit of Laws]. Geneva: Barrillot & Fils, 1748, bk. 11, ch. 3.

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Secondat, Charles Baron de Montesquieu. The Spirit of Laws. Prometheus, 2002, bk. 11, ch. 3.

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Poincare, Henri. Science et methode [Science and Method]. Flammarion, 1914, bk. 1, ch. 3.

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Nicias. Quoted in Λάχης [Laches], written by Plato. c. 348 BC, sect. 195d.

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Nicias. Quoted in "Laches." Plato: Complete Works, edited by John M. Cooper and D. S. Hutchinson. Hackett Publishing, 1997, sect. 195d.

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"Palestinian Chicken." Curb Your Enthusiasm, written by Larry David and Alec Berg and David Mandel, directed by Robert B. Weide, season 8, episode 3, Home Box Office, 2011.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist [Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is]. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1908.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is, translated by Duncan Large. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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James, William. The Principles of Psychology. Vol. 2, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890, ch. 22.

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Lenin, Vladimir. "Our Foreign and Domestic Position and Party Tasks." The Moscow Gubernia Conference Of The R.C.P.(B.). 21 Nov. 1920, Moscow, Russia. Speech.

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Lenin, Vladimir. Quoted in Communism, written by Mark Sandle. Routledge, 2014.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." Fortnightly Review. London: Chapman and Hall, Feb. 1891.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose, edited by Linda Dowling. Penguin Classics, 2001.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Oratore [On the Orator]. c. 55 BC, bk. 2, ch. 9, sect. 36.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Cicero: On the Orator, Books I-II, translated by E. W. Sutton and H. Rackham. Harvard University Press, 1948, bk. 2, ch. 9, sect. 36.