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Well, some things a man doesn't get over so easy.

The Quiet Man

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The Quiet Man. Directed by John Ford, Republic Pictures/Argosy Productions Corporation, 1952.

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The right of conquest has no foundation other than the right of the strongest.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Social Contract

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique [On the Social Contract or Principles of Political Law]. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1762, bk. 1, ch. 4.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Of the Social Contract." Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings, translated by Quintin Hoare. Penguin Classics, 2012, bk. 1, ch. 4.

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It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten, because that history has yet to be enacted.

Walt Whitman

Democratic Vistas

On democracy.

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Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas. Washington D.C.: J. S. Redfield, 1871.

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Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas, edited by Ed Folsom. University Of Iowa Press, 2009.

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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

John Stuart Mill

On Liberty

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Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 3.

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Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 3.

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We talkin' or we racin'?

Dominic Toretto

Fast Five

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Fast Five. Directed by Justin Lin, Original Film/One Race Films, 2011.

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If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.

Rounders

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Rounders. Directed by John Dahl, Spanky Pictures, 1998.

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How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!

Psalm 133:1

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The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (Psalm 133:1).

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We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 12.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 12.

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Bad, fast! Fast! Fast! Last night I cut the light off in my bedroom, hit the switch, and was in the bed before the room was dark.

Muhammad Ali

When We Were Kings

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When We Were Kings. Directed by Leon Gast, Polygram/Image Entertainment Inc./Gramercy Pictures, 1996.

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My mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on.

Forrest Gump

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Forrest Gump. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, The Tisch Company, 1994.

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When the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.

The Sound of Music

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The Sound of Music. Directed by Robert Wise, Argyle Enterprises, 1965.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says:
"Yes, the little ones does."

Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer Abroad

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Twain, Mark. Tom Sawyer Abroad. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Tom Sawyer Abroad." Mark Twain: The Gilded Age & Later Novels, edited by Hamlin Hill. Library of America, 2002.

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Socrates is a wrongdoer because he corrupts the youth and does not believe in the gods the state believes in, but in other new spiritual beings.

Plato

Apology

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Plato. Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους [Apology of Socrates]. c. 339 BC, sect. 24b-24c.

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Plato. "Apology." Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, translated by John M. Cooper and G. M. A. Grube. Hackett Publishing Company, 2002, sect. 24b-24c.

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The old are in a second childhood.

Strepsiades

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The Clouds

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Aristophanes. Νεφέλαι [The Clouds]. c. 423 BC, The Dionysia, Athens, Greece.

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Aristophanes. "The Clouds." Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays, translated by Stephen Halliwell. Oxford University Press, 2017.

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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth!

Sophocles

Oedipus Rex

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Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. c. 429 BC, Theatre of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.

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Sophocles. "Oedipus Rex." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.

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I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.

Rosa Parks

Regarding the day in 1955 on which Ms. Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus for a white man. Widely considered the beginning of the US Civil Rights movement.

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Parks, Rosa. Quoted in Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, written by David Garrow. William Morrow, 1988, ch. 1.

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You see in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend—those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo]. Directed by Sergio Leone, Produzioni Europee Associati/Constantin Film, 1966.

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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

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Brontë, Emily, [published as Ellis Bell]. Wuthering Heights. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847, ch. 9.

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Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights, edited by Alexandra Lewis. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, ch. 9.

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Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me...aren't you?

The Graduate

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The Graduate. Directed by Mike Nichols, Lawrence Truman Productions, 1967.

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You don’t own a TV? What’s all your furniture pointed at?

Joey Tribbiani

Friends

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"The One in Barbados." Friends, written by David Crane and Marta Kauffman and Shana Goldberg-Meehan, directed by Kevin Bright, season 9, episode 23, Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions and Warner Bros. Television, 2003.

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