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I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived and loved and where all your yesterdays are buried deep-leave it any way except a slow way; leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

Beryl Markham

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West with the Night

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Markham, Beryl. West with the Night. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1942, ch. 11.

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This much I think I do know—that a society so riven that the spirit of moderation is gone, no court can save; that a society where the spirit flourishes, no court need save; that in a society which evades its responsibility by thrusting upon the courts the nurture of that spirit, that spirit in the end will perish.

Learned Hand

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Hand, Learned. "The Contribution of an Independent Judiciary to Civilization." 250th Anniversary of the Founding of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. 21 Nov. 1942, Boston, MA, USA.

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When it comes to women, you’re a true democrat.

Rick Blaine

Casablanca

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Casablanca. Directed by Michael Curtiz, Warner Bros. Pictures, 1942.

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Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time.

Casablanca

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Casablanca. Directed by Michael Curtiz, Warner Bros. Pictures, 1942.

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Integrity has no need of rules.

Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus

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Camus, Albert. Le Mythe de Sisyphe [The Myth of Sisyphus]. Éditions Gallimard, 1942.

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The meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.

Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus

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Camus, Albert. Le Mythe de Sisyphe [The Myth of Sisyphus]. Éditions Gallimard, 1942.

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Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

Joseph Schumpeter

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

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Schumpeter, Joseph Alois. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. Harper & Brothers, 1942, pt. 1, ch. 3.

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The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters

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Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, 1942, letter 12.

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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot

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Eliot, T. S. "Little Gidding." New English Weekly, Oct. 1942, pt. 5.

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We all know that books burn-yet we have the greater knowledge that books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind. In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Message to American Booksellers Association. Annual banquet of the American Booksellers Association. 6 May 1942, Astor Hotel, New York City, NY, USA.

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We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

C.S. Lewis

The Screwtape Letters

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Lewis, C.S. The Screwtape Letters. Geoffrey Bles, 1942, no. 25.

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Frost, Robert. "Happiness Makes Up in Height for What it Lacks in Length." A Witness Tree. Henry Holt and Company, 1942.

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Sisyphyus, proletarian of the gods, powerless and rebellious, knows the whole extent of his wretched condition: it is what he thinks of during his descent. The lucidity that was to constitute his torture at the same time crowns his victory. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus

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Camus, Albert. Le Mythe de Sisyphe [The Myth of Sisyphus]. Éditions Gallimard, 1942.

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Either this man was, and is, the son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But don't let us come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He hasn't left that open to us. He didn't intend to.

C.S. Lewis

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Lewis, C. S. "The Shocking Alternative." 1942, Broadcasting House, London, England, UK. Radio broadcast.

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Lewis, C. S. "The Shocking Alternative." Mere Christianity. HarperOne, 2015.

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They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.

William Faulkner

Faulkner on black Americans.

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Faulkner, William. "The Bear." Go Down, Moses. Random House, 1942, pt. 4.

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Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.

Joseph Schumpeter

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

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Schumpeter, Joseph Alois. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. Harper & Brothers, 1942, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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The century on which we are entering-the century which will come into being after this war-can be and must be the century of the common man.

Henry A. Wallace

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Wallace, Henry. "The Century of the Common Man." Free World Association meeting. 8 May 1942, Grand Ballroom, Commodore Hotel, New York City, NY, USA.

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In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.

Joseph Schumpeter

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Schumpeter, Joseph. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. Harper & Brothers, 1942, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.

G.M. Trevelyan

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

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As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Christopher Dawson

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Dawson, Christopher. The Judgment of the Nations. Sheed & Ward, 1942, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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