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"ref": "1923, American Magazine - Volume 96, page 16",
"text": "\"As I have mentioned some of the modern miracles of science and industry,\" he went on, \"you have asked me how men ever managed to achieve them. This anecdote is my answer. . . . They walked in straight lines. . . . Each man had his 'pine tree' in the distance — his goal.\"",
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"ref": "2012, Jonathan Gray, Watching with The Simpsons: Television, Parody, and Intertextuality",
"text": "'Our established models of the public sphere are deeply rooted in a commitment to rational argument,' notes Graham Murdock (1999: 14), 'But images do not walk in straight lines. They do not wait to take turns. They work by association, detonating a collision of connotations.",
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"ref": "2013 January 13, Jeanne Adams, “Macaulay Culkin Clean And Sober Looking For Once, Trying To Win Mila Kunis Back?”, in Celebrity Dirty Laundry",
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"ref": "2017 December 31, David Walsh, “Josh Navidi: 'I have never spoken highly of myself and I never will — it's just not me'”, in The Times",
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