“In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state… It’s become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.”

— E.L. Doctorow

Interview in Writers at Work (1988)

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E.L. Doctorow 25

novelist, editor, professor 1931–2015

James H. Wilkinson (1919–1986) English mathematician

Oral history interview http://history.siam.org/wilkinson.htm by John C. Nash, SIAM History of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing Project http://history.siam.org/,13 July 1984
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Kresley Cole book Dead of Winter

Source: Dead of Winter

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The World Set Free (1914)
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