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Osler, William. "Chauvinism in Medicine." Canadian Medical Association gathering. 17 Sept. 1902, Montreal, Québec, Canada.

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Susan Ertz

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Ertz, Susan. Anger in the Sky. Harper & Brothers/Hodder & Stoughton, 1943.

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Jerome, Jerome K. "On Being Idle." Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. Field & Tuer, 1886.

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Steinbeck, John. Letter to Adlai Stevenson. 5 Nov. 1959.

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Quarles, Francis. Emblemes, Divine and Moral. London, 1635, bk. 4, emblem 2.

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Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

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Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Man and Superman." Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, act 1. Originally published by Archibald and Constable Co., Ltd., 1903.

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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander. В круге первом [In the First Circle]. Collins & Harvill Press/‎Harper & Row, 1968, ch. 17.

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Kennan, George Frost. The Cloud of Danger: Current Realities of American Foreign Policy. Little, Brown and Company, 1977, ch. 13.

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Broun, Heywood. "A New Preface to an Old Story." Broun's Nutmeg, 19 Aug. 1939.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

George Moore

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Moore, George. The Brook Kerith: A Syrian Story. The Macmillan Company, 1916, ch. 11.

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De Botton, Alain. A Week at the Airport. Profile Books, 2009.

Only a free society... Can produce the technology that makes tyranny possible.

John Keith Laumer

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Laumer, John Keith. "Test to Destruction." Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison. Doubleday, 1967.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Luke 6:27).

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Laozi [Lao Tzu]. 道德經 [Tao Te Ching]. c. 400 BC, ch. 29.

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Laozi [Lao Tzu]. "The Natural Way of Lao Tzu." A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, translated by Wing-Tsit Chan. Princeton University Press, 1969, ch. 29.

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Laozi [Lao Tzu]. 道德經 [Tao Te Ching]. c. 400 BC, ch. 48.

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Laozi [Lao Tzu]. "The Natural Way of Lao Tzu." A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, translated by Wing-Tsit Chan. Princeton University Press, 1969, ch. 48.

You cannot conceive the many without the one.

Plato

Parmenides

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Plato. Παρμενίδης [Parmenides]. 4th century BC.

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Plato. Parmenides, translated by Andre Schuwer and Richard Rojcewicz. Indiana University Press, 1998.

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Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, bk. 2.

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Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 2.

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Rabelais, Francois [Alcofribas Nasier]. La vie très horrifique du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel [The Very Horrific Life of Great Gargantua, Father of Pantagruel]. 1534, ch. 5.

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Rabelais, Francois. Gargantua & Pantagruel. Dover Publications, 2016, bk. 5.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 23. Originally from Notebook, c. 1895.