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1 What To Po When You Have The Power; In The Meantime, Remember To Skylark!* |
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Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, June 1970 |
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2 The Terrible Disease Of Loneliness Can Be Cured!* |
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Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York, May 26, 1974 |
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Barnstable High School, Barnstable, Massachusetts, October 23, 1969 |
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4 How To Make Money And Find Love! |
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Fredonia College, Fredonia, New York, May 20, 1978 |
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5 Advice To Graduating Women (That All Men Should Know!) |
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Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia, May 15, 1999 |
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6 How To Have Something Most Billionaires Don't |
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Rice University, Houston, Texas, October 12, 2001 |
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7 How Music Cures Our Ills (And There Are Lots Of Them) |
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Eastern Washington University, Spokane, Washington, April 17, 2004 |
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8 What The "Ghost Dance* Of The Native Americans And The French Painters Who Led The Cubist Movement Have In Common |
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The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, February 17, 1994 |
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9 How I Learned From A Teacher What Artists Do |
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Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, May 8, 1994 |
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131 | (6) |
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10 Don't Forget Where You Come From |
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Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, May 11, 1996 |
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137 | (6) |
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11 Why Social Justice Does More Than Art To Nourish The American Dream |
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State University of New York at Albany, May 20, 1972 |
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12 How To Be A Wise Guy Or A Wise Girl |
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Southampton College, Southampton, New York, June 7, 1981 |
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13 Why You Cant Stop Me From Speaking Ill Of Thomas Jefferson |
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The Indiana Civil Liberties Union (now The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana), Indianapolis, Indiana, September 16, 2000 |
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173 | (12) |
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14 Don't Despair If You Never Went To College! |
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On receiving the Carl Sandburg Award, Chicago, Illinois, October 12, 2001 |
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15 How I Got My First Job As A Reporter And Learned To Write In A Simple, Direct Way, While Not Getting A Degree In Anthropology |
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From An Unsentimenal Education: Writers and Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1995 |
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193 | (12) |
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16 Somebody Should Have Told Me Not To Join A Fraternity |
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"If I Knew Then What I Know Now: Advice to the Class of `94 from Those Who Know Best," Cornell Magazine, May 1994 |
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17 The Most Censored Writer Of His Time Defends The First Amendment |
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"The Idea Killers," Playboy Magazine, January 1984 |
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18 My Dog Likes Everybody, But Was Not Inspired By Ancient Greece And Rome Or The Renaissance |
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"Why My Dog Is Not a Humanist," The Humanist, November/December 1992 |
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Unstuck In Time--Quotes To Ponder |
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