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All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. We do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Eleanor. "Intolerance." Cosmopolitan, Feb. 1940.

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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not and shall not die.

Charles de Gaulle

Appeal of 18 June

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De Gaulle, Charles. L'Appel du 18 juin [The Appeal of 18 June]. BBC, 18 June 1940.

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The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's, must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colors or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

G.H. Hardy

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A Mathematician's Apology

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Hardy, G. H. A Mathematician's Apology. Cambridge University Press, 1940.

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For poems are like rainbows: they escape you quickly.

Langston Hughes

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Hughes, Langston. "I've Known Rivers." The Big Sea. Alfred A. Knopf, 1940.

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Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whisky. Whiskey is a slap on the back and champagne's heavy mist before my eyes.

The Philadelphia Story

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The Philadelphia Story. Directed by George Cukor, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1940.

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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. Conference in New York City. Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life. 9 Sept. 1940-11 Sept. 1940, New York City, NY, USA.

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In order to be content men must also have the possibility of developing their intellectual and artistic powers.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. "Freiheit und Wissenschaft [Freedom and Science]." 1940.

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Einstein, Albert. "On Freedom." Out of My Later Years. Philosophical Library/Open Road, 2015, ch. 6.

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A joke worth laughing at always has an idea behind it, and usually a subversive idea.

George Orwell

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Orwell, George. "Charles Dickens." Inside the Whale and Other Essays. Victor Gollancz, 1940, pt. 6.

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Keeping time,
Keeping the rhythm in their dancing
As in their living in the living seasons
The time of the seasons and the constellations
The time of milking and the time of harvest
The time of the coupling of man and woman
And that of beasts. Feet rising and falling. Eating and drinking. Dung and death.

T.S. Eliot

Four Quartets

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Eliot, T. S. "East Coker." New English Weekly, Mar. 1940.

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He knew that the moment he allowed what his life meant to enter fully into his consciousness, he would either kill himself or someone else. So he denied himself and acted tough.

Richard Wright

Native Son

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Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940, bk. 1.

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Law is where you buy it in this town.

Raymond Chandler

Farewell, My Lovely

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Chandler, Raymond. Farewell, My Lovely. Alfred A. Knopf, 1940, ch. 19.

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Well, Pa, a woman can change better'n a man. A man lives sorta—well, in jerks. Baby's born or somebody dies, and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it, and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream—little eddies and waterfalls—but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it thata way.

Ma Joad

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The Grapes of Wrath

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The Grapes of Wrath. Directed by John Ford. 20th Century Fox, 1940.

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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Winifred Holtby

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Holtby, Winifred. Quoted in Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby, written by Vera Brittain. Macmillan & Co., 1940.

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I'm wild again,
Beguiled again,
A simpering, whimpering child again-
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.

Lorenz Milton Hart

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Hart, Lorenz. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered." Pal Joey. Composed by Richard Rodgers. 25 Dec. 1940, Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.

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Your language becomes clear and strong, not when you can no longer add a sentence, but when you can no longer take away from it.

Isaac Babel

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Quoted in The New Yorker

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Babel, Isaac. Quoted in "Hide and Seek: The Complete Isaac Babel." Written by John Updike. The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2001.

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