Quoted Authors

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Author Name	Last Name	Years Lived
Abigail Disney	Disney
Abraham Lincoln	Lincoln	1809-1865
Alan Kay	Kay	1940-
Alan Lightman	Lightman	1948-
Albert Camus	Camus	1913-1960
Albert Einstein	Einstein	1879-1955
Albert Schweitzer	Schweitzer	1875-1965
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez	Ocasio-Cortez
Alexis de Tocqueville	Tocqueville
Alfred North Whitehead	Whitehead
Allen Ginsberg	Ginsberg	1926-1997
Amanda Cross	Cross	1926-2003
Amélie Rorty	Rorty	1932-2020
Andy Warhol	Warhol	1928-1987
Angeles Arrien	Arrien	1940-2014
Ansel Adams	Adams	1902-1984
Anthony Burgess	Burgess	1917-1993
Anthony M. Kennedy	Kennedy	1936-
Anton Chekhov	Chekhov	1860-1904
Anu Partanen	Partanen
Apple	Apple
Aristotle	Aristotle	0384-0322 BC
Arnold J. Toynbee	Toynbee
Barack Obama	Obama	1961-
Baruch Spinoza	Spinoza
Ben Friedman	Friedman
Benjamin Franklin	Franklin
Bertolt Brecht	Brecht
Bertrand Russell	Russell	1872-1970
Bibi Bahrami	Bahrami
Bill McKibben	McKibben
Bo Schembechler	Schembechler	1929-2006
Bob Dylan	Dylan	1941-
Bob Mandel	Mandel
Brené Brown	Brown
Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods
Brooks Robinson	Robinson
Bruce Springsteen	Springsteen
C. S. Lewis	Lewis
Carl Jung	Jung	1875-1961
Carl Sagan	Sagan	1934-1996
Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan		1934-1996; 1949-
Celeste Ng	Ng	1980-
Charles Darwin	Darwin	1809-1882
Charles Woodson	Woodson
Chris Argyris and Donald Schön
Clare W. Graves	Graves	1914-1986
Colin Wilson	Wilson
Dalai Lama	Lama
Dambisa Moyo	Moyo
Daniel Patrick Moynihan	Moynihan	1927-2003
Danielle Allen	Allen	1971-
Darrell Huff	Huff
Dashiell Hammett	Hammett	1894-1961
Dave Mayer	Mayer	1982(?)-
David Brooks	Brooks
David Christian	Christian	1946-
David D. Clark	Clark
David Foster Wallace	Wallace	1962-2008
David Graeber and David Wengrow		1961-
David Sloan Wilson	Wilson	1949-
Dennis Stauffer	Stauffer
Derek Bok	Bok
Desiderius Erasmus	Erasmus
Disputed	Disputed
Don Beck and Chris Cowan
Dorothy L. Sayers	Sayers
Dorothy Parker	Parker	1893-1967
Dwight D. Eisenhower	Eisenhower	1890-1969
E. B. White	White
E. M. Forster	Forster	1879-1970
E. O. Wilson	Wilson
Eamonn Kelly	Kelly
Edith Penrose	Penrose
Edmund Burke	Burke	1729-1797
Edmund Crispin	Crispin	1921-1978
Edward Hopper	Hopper	1882-1967
Edward Luce	Luce	1968-
Edwin G. Pulleyblank	Pulleyblank	1922-2013
Eleanor Roosevelt	Roosevelt
Emmanuel Macron	Macron	1977-
Eric Braverman	Braverman
Eric Hoffer	Hoffer	1902-1983
Erich Fromm	Fromm	1900-1980
Ernest Hemingway	Hemingway	1899-1961
Ezra Klein	Klein	1984-
F. Scott Fitzgerald	Fitzgerald
Frank Capra	Capra
Frank Lloyd Wright	Wright	1867-1959
Frank W. Abrams	Abrams	1889-1976
Franklin D. Roosevelt	Roosevelt	1882-1945
Frans de Waal	Waal
Friedrich Nietzsche	Nietzsche	1844-1900
G. K. Chesterton	Chesterton	1874-1936
Garry Kasparov	Kasparov
Genevieve von Petzinger	Petzinger	1990?
George Bernard Shaw	Shaw
George Orwell	Orwell	1903-1950
George Santayana	Santayana	1863-1952
Gilbert Murray	Murray
Groucho Marx	Marx
H. L. Mencken	Mencken	1880-1956
Harry S. Truman	Truman	1884-1972
Henri Matisse	Matisse
Henry Ford	Ford
Henry Miller	Miller	1891-1980
Herb Bowie	Bowie	1951-
Ian Bogost	Bogost
Isaac Asimov	Asimov
J. B. S. Haldane	Haldane	1892-1964
J. K. Rowling	Rowling	1965-
Jack Kerouac	Kerouac	1922-1969
Jack Welch	Welch
Jacob Bronowski	Bronowski
James Baldwin	Baldwin	1924-1987
James Madison	Madison	1751-1836
Jasmine Donovan	Donovan	1970-
Jeff Bezos	Bezos	1964-
Jeff Bezos and Jason Fried
Jeff Bridges	Bridges	1949-
Jenny Odell	Odell	1988?-
Jesus	Jesus
Jim Coan	Coan
Jim Geraghty	Geraghty	1961?-
Jim Womack	Womack
Jimmy Buffet	Buffet
Joe Boyd	Boyd
John Adams	Adams	1735-1826
John Bacon and Ed Zeiders
John Dickson Carr and Cecil Street
John F. Kennedy	Kennedy	1917-1963
John Gall	Gall
John Gottman	Gottman
John Guillebaud	Guillebaud
John Kenneth Galbraith	Galbraith
John Lennon	Lennon	1940-1980
John Maynard Keynes	Keynes
John McCain	McCain
John Rogers	Rogers
John Stuart Mill	Mill	1806-1873
John Taylor Gatto	Gatto
John Updike	Updike
Jon Postel	Postel
Jon Stewart	Stewart
Jonas Salk	Salk
Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr.
Josiah Royce	Royce
Juan Louis Vives	Vives	1493-1540
Jürgen Klüver	Klüver
Kate Raworth	Raworth	1970-
Katherine Phillips	Phillips	1972-2020
Ken Wilber	Wilber	1949-
Kenneth Boulding	Boulding	1910-1993
Kurt Vonnegut	Vonnegut	1922-2007
Larry Fink	Fink	1952-
Lauren Groff	Groff	1978-
Lauretta Bender	Bender
Lawrence Ferlinghetti	Ferlinghetti	1919-2021
Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin
Leonard Bernstein	Bernstein
Leonard Cohen	Cohen
Lester Thurow	Thurow	1938-2016
Lewis Carroll	Carroll
Linda Ronstadt	Ronstadt	1946-
Lord Kelvin	Kelvin	1824-1907
Louise Penny	Penny	1958-
Malcolm X	X	1925-1965
Margaret Mead	Mead	1901-1978
Margery Allingham	Allingham	1904-1966
Mark Twain	Twain
Marshall McLuhan	McLuhan	1911-1980
Martin Luther King Jr.	King	1929-1968
Martin Niemöller	Niemöller	1892-1984
Martin Scorsese	Scorsese	1942-
Mary Shelley	Shelley	1797-1851
Matthew Stewart	Stewart
Michael Chabon	Chabon	1963-
Michael Innes	Innes	1906-1994
Michel Foucault	Foucault
Milton Glaser	Glaser
Moira Buffini	Buffini
Montesquieu	Montesquieu	1689-1755
Moritz Wagner	Wagner
Neil Postman	Postman
Niccolò Machiavelli	Machiavelli
Oliver Wendell Holmes	Holmes
Otto Jespersen	Jespersen
Pablo Picasso	Picasso	1881-1973
Paul McCartney	McCartney	1953-
Peter Barnes	Barnes	1942-
Peter Boettke	Boettke
Peter Freuchen	Freuchen
Peter Kann	Kann
Peter Senge	Senge
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Emerson	1803-1882
Ray Bradbury	Bradbury	1920-2012
Ray Oldenburg	Oldenburg
Raymond Chandler	Chandler	1888-1959
Raymond Williams	Williams
René Descartes	Descartes	1596-1650
Richard Dawkins	Dawkins	1941-
Richard Feynman	Feynman	1918-1988
Richard Hofstadter	Hofstadter	1916-1970
Richard Powers	Powers
Robert B. Reich	Reich
Robert D. Austin	Austin
Robert Darnton	Darnton	1939-
Robert Heinlein	Heinlein
Robert Putnam	Putnam	1907-1970
Robert Riskin	Riskin
Rollo May	May	1909-1994
Ron Johnson	Johnson
Ross MacDonald	MacDonald	1915-1983
Sarah Bakewell	Bakewell
Scott Adams	Adams	1957-
Sebastian Junger	Junger	1962-
Stan Lee	Lee
Stephen E. Nash	Nash
Steve Jobs	Jobs	1955-2011
Steven Johnson	Johnson
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt		1968-;
Steven Pinker	Pinker
Sydney Harris	Harris
T. H. White	White	1906-1964
Ted Perry	Perry
Thomas J. Watson, Jr
Thomas Jefferson	Jefferson	1743-1826
Thomas Keating	Keating	1923-2018
Thomas Piketty	Piketty
Tim O'Reilly	O'Reilly	1907-1970
Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister		1940-
Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr.
Tom Robbins	Robbins	1932-
Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller
Tom Waits	Waits
Tomas Tranströmer	Tranströmer
Trygve Throntveit	Throntveit
Upton Sinclair	Sinclair	1878-1968
Ursula K. Le Guin	Guin
Victor Frankl	Frankl	1905-1997
Victor Hwang	Hwang
Vishavjit Singh	Singh
W. H. Auden	Auden	1907-1973
Wade Davis	Davis	1953-
Walt Disney	Disney	1901-1966
Walt Whitman	Whitman
Walter Mosley	Mosley
Walter Reuther	Reuther	1907-1970
Warren Buffett	Buffett
William Blake	Blake
William J. Brown, Hays W. McCormick III and Scott W. Thomas
William Jennings Bryan	Bryan
William O. Douglas	Douglas	1898-1980
Winston Churchill	Churchill	1874-1965
Wynton Marsalis	Marsalis	1961-
Yanis Varoufakis	Varoufakis	1961-
Yuval Noah Harari	Harari	1976-
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