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"I didn’t want to write it in OED English…As I was writing more and more I was aware that I was having it filtered through to me from various languages, various religions, various countries, and so in …"

— Daljit Nagra

Literature1966

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"In its two most dramatic conflicts with the Nixon Administration—publication of the purloined Pentagon Papers and of the Watergate scandal—the Washington-based press corps and the New York-Washington …"

— Neil H. Jacoby

Economics1909–1979

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"It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and interest by upholding the artificial streams which give us such worlds of salutary illusi…"

— H. P. Lovecraft

Literature1890–1937

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"They believe that the living, dynamic activity of love has been going on in God forever and has created everything else. And that, by the way, is perhaps the most important difference between Christia…"

— C. S. Lewis

Literature1925–1954

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