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  1. John dos Passos _ 1919: Volume Two of the U.S.A.

    you dont like the stars in Old Glory Then go back to your land across the sea To the land from which you came Whatever be its name
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  2. John dos Passos _ Manhattan Transfer: A Novel

    Aint no good place to look for a job, young feller. . . . There's jobs all right. . . . I'll be sixty-five years old in a month and four days an I've worked sence I was five I reckon, an I aint found a good job yet.
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  3. John dos Passos _ Mr. Wilson's War: From the

    Think of what it was they were applauding," he said at last. "My message today was a message of death for our young men. How strange it seems to applaud that.
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  4. John dos Passos _ Mr. Wilson's War: From the

    It would mean," he told the editor of the New York World, "that we would lose our heads along with the rest and stop weighing right and wrong. It would mean that a majority of people in this hemisphere would go war mad, quit thinking, and devote their energies to destruction . . . Conformity will be the only virtue. And every man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty . . . Once lead this people into war and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance . . . If there is any alternative for God's sake let's take it.
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  5. John dos Passos _ The Big Money: Volume Three of

    The pressure exerted by a gas on the walls of its container does not depend upon the individual histories of the molecules composing it," says the French existentialist philosopher.
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  6. John dos Passos _ The 42nd Parallel

    The twentieth century will be American. American thought will dominate it. American progress will give it color and direction. American deeds will make it illustrious. Civilization will never lose its hold on Shanghai. Civilization will never depart from Hongkong. The gates of Peking will never again be closed to the methods of modern man. The regeneration of the world, physical as well as moral, has begun, and revolutions never move backwards.
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