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		<title>Cain, Cheryl -- Firefly, 1&#215;10 &#8220;War Stories&#8221; (6 Dec 2002)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ZOE: Preacher, don&#8217;t the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killin&#8217;? BOOK: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ZOE: Preacher, don&#8217;t the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about killin&#8217;?</p>
<p>BOOK: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.</p>
<br><b>Cheryl Cain</b> (contemp.) American television screenwriter<br><i>Firefly</i>, 1&#215;10 &#8220;War Stories&#8221; (6 Dec 2002) 
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		<title>Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essay (1841), &#8220;Self-Reliance,&#8221; Essays: First Series, No.  2</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. This thought continues here. This essay was inspired by his reading of Walter Savage Landor in 1833, with passages pulled from his lecture &#8220;Individualism,&#8221; last in his course on &#8220;The Philosophy of History&#8221; (1836–1837), with other passages from [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.</p>
<br><b>Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet<br>Essay (1841), &#8220;Self-Reliance,&#8221; <i>Essays: First Series</i>, No.  2 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/emerson/4957107.0002.001/1:6?rgn=div1;view=fulltext#:~:text=A%20foolish%20consistency%20is%20the%20hobgoblin%20of%20little%20minds%2C%20adored%20by%20little%20statesmen%20and%20philosophers%20and%20divines." target="_blank">Source</a>)
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This thought continues <a href="/emerson-ralph-waldo/123/">here</a>.<br><br>

This essay was inspired by his <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/emerson/4957107.0002.001/1:18?rgn=div1;view=fulltext#:~:text=appears%20that%20the-,writings%20of%20Landor,-%2C%20read%20the%20year">reading of Walter Savage Landor</a> in 1833, with passages pulled from his lecture "Individualism," last in his course on "The Philosophy of History" (1836–1837), with other passages from the lectures "School," "Genius," and "Duty" in his course on "Human Life" (1838–1839).						</span>
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