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Winning isn’t everything...It’s the only thing.

Henry R. "Red" Sanders

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Sanders, Henry R. Quoted in L.A. Times. 18 Oct. 1950. Originally spoken to the Quarterback Club. Luncheon. 1948, Tutwiler Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

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A most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

Vladimir Nabokov

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Nabokov, Vladimir. Talking about the novel Madame Bovary. c. 1948, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. Lecture.

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Nabokov, Vladimir. "Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary." Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers. Mariner Books, 2002.

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Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheep and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white. It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.

Alfred C. Kinsey

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Sexual Behavior in the Human Male

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Kinsey, Alfred C. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. W. B. Saunders Co., 1948, ch. 21.

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A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were honest though poor.

Bertrand Russell

Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits

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Russell, Bertrand. Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits. George, Allen and Unwin/Simon & Schuster, 1948, pt. 2, ch. 1.

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I've always wished for more artistic talent. Well, murder can be an art, too. The power to kill can be just as satisfying as the power to create.

Rope

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Rope. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Transatlantic Pictures, 1948.

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Conscience. What a thing. If you believe you got a conscience it'll pester you to death. But if you don't believe you got one, what could it do t'ya?

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros.-First National, 1948.

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I never liked seein' strangers, guess it's cause no stranger ever good news to me.

Red River

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Red River. Directed by Howard Hawks, Monterey Productions, 1948.

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He felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness—the sense that that is where we really belong.

Graham Greene

The Heart of the Matter

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Greene, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. William Heinemann/The Viking Press, 1948, bk. 2, pt. 2, sec. 1.

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Water's precious. Sometimes it can be more precious than gold.

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros.-First National, 1948.

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Yeah, I know what gold does to men's souls.

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros.-First National, 1948.

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There is love, of course. And then there's life, its enemy.

Jean Anouilh

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Anouilh, Jean. Ardèle ou la Marguerite. Directed by Roland Piétri. 1948, Comédie des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France.

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Anouilh, Jean. "Ardele." Jean Anouilh: Five Plays. Vol. 2, Hill & Wang, 1966.

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Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

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Rope. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Transatlantic Pictures, 1948.

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You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself!

Jean Anouilh

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Anouilh, Jean. Ardèle ou la Marguerite. Directed by Roland Piétri. 1948, Comédie des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France.

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Anouilh, Jean. "Ardele." Jean Anouilh: Five Plays. Vol. 2, Hill & Wang, 1966.

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We are now brought face to face with a tyranny which holds out the threat of becoming, thanks to "the conquest of nature" and in particular of human nature, what no earlier tyranny ever became: perpetual and universal.

Leo Strauss

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Strauss, Leo. On Tyranny: An Interpretation of Xenophon's Hiero. The Free Press, 1948.

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You know, the worst ain't so bad when it finally happens. Not half as bad as you figure it'll be before it's happened.

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros.-First National, 1948.

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The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence-free of the network of dead speech.

Freya Stark

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Stark, Freya. Perseus in the Wind. London: John Murray, 1948, ch. 1.

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Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros.-First National, 1948.

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There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun—a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere.

Red River

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Red River. Directed by Howard Hawks, Monterey Productions, 1948.

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You're fast with that gun, Matt. Awful fast. But your heart's soft. Too soft. Might get you hurt some day.

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Red River. Directed by Howard Hawks, Monterey Productions, 1948.

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