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Hand, Learned. "The Preservation of Personality." Commencement. 2 June 1927, Bryn Mawr College, Byrn Mawr, PA, USA.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

Jean Cocteau

Barabbas was the criminal released by Pontius Pilate , at the crowd's insistence, instead of Jesus.

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Cocteau, Jean. Le Coq et l'Arlequin [The Cock and the Harlequin]. Paris: Editions de la Sirene, 1918.

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 8.

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Heraclitus. Fragments. 5th century BC, F50 - DK B29.

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Heraclitus. "Heraclitus of Ephesus." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009, F50 - DK B29.

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Wordsworth, William. "Reflections." Ecclesiastical Sonnets. c. 1822, pt. 2, no. 28.

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Wordsworth, William. "Reflections." The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth. Wordsworth Editions, 1998.

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Ibsen, Henrik. Vildanden [The Wild Duck]. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1884, act 3.

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Ibsen, Henrik. "The Wild Duck." An Enemy of the People; The Wild Duck; Rosmersholm, translated by James McFarlane. Oxford University Press, 2009, act 3.

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Alcuin. Letter to Charlemagne. c. 850.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "Speech on a Plan of Government." Constitutional Convention. 18 June 1787, Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "Speech in the Constitutional Convention on a Plan of Government, June 18, 1787." Alexander Hamilton: Writings, edited by Joanne B. Freeman. Library of America, 2001.

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Se7en. Directed by David Fincher, Arnold Kopelson Productions, 1995.

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Mencken, Henry Louis. "Notes on Journalism." Chicago Tribune, 19 Sept. 1926.

The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived.

P.T. Barnum

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Barnum, P. T. The Life of P. T. Barnum. New York: Redfield, 1855, ch. 7.

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Barnum, P. T. Barnum's Own Story: The Autobiography of P. T. Barnum. Dover Publications, 2017, ch. 7.

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Trevelyan, George Macaulay. English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria. Longmans, Green and Company, 1942, ch. 18.