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One good turn deserves another.

Gaius Petronius

Satyricon

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Petronius. Satyricon, Satyricon liber [The Book of Satyrlike Adventures]. c. 1st century AD, sect. 45.

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Petronius. "The Satyricon." The Satyricon and The Apocolocyntosis of the Divine Claudius, translated by J. P. Sullivan. Penguin Classics, 1986, sect. 45.

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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

John Stuart Mill

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Mill, John Stuart. Inaugural Address at St. Andrews. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1867. Orinally given on 1 Feb. 1867, St. Andrew's University, St. Andrew, Fife, Scotland, UK.

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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Don Corleone

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Quoted in The Godfather (novel), by Mario Puzo

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Puzo, Mario. The Godfather. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969, ch. 1.

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How much better is thy love than wine!

Song of Solomon 4:10

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Song of Solomon 4:10).

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We will make no distinction between terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.

George W. Bush

Address to the Nation on 9-11

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Bush, George W. "9/11 Address to the Nation." 11 Sept. 2001, Oval Office, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

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Away, away, from men and towns,
To the wild wood and the downs.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

To Jane: The Invitation

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "The Pine Forest of the Cascine near Pisa." Posthumous Poems. London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824, I. 21.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "To Jane. The Invitation." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 21.

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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Edmund Burke

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Burke, Edmund. A Letter to John Farr and John Harris, Esqs., Sheriffs of the City of Bristol, on the Affairs of America. London: J. Dodsley, 3 Apr. 1777.

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Burke, Edmund. "A Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol on the Affairs of America." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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Machiavelli, Niccolò. Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio [Discourses on the First Ten of Titus Livy]. Papal Privilege, 1531, bk. 1, ch. 3.

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Machiavelli, Niccolo. Discourses on Livy, translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1, ch. 3.

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If you need a friend, get a dog.

Gordon Gekko

Wall Street

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Wall Street. Directed by Oliver Stone, American Entertainment Partners/American Films, 1987.

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Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss.

The Who

Won't Get Fooled Again

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Townshend, Peter. Won't Get Fooled Again. Performed by The Who. Track Records/Decca Records, 1971.

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Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land.

Mao Zedong

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Zedong, Mao. "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People." Eleventh Session (Enlarged) of the Supreme State Conference. 27 Feb. 1957, Beijing, China.

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Trembling and bewildered, the women went out and fled from the tomb. They said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid.

Mark 16:8

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Mark 16:8).

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Oh there they go. There they go, every time I start talkin 'bout boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. That's their one, that's their one. Rocky Marciano. Rocky Marciano. Let me tell you something once and for all. Rocky Marciano was good, but compared to Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano ain't shit.

Coming to America

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Coming To America. Directed by John Landis, Eddie Murphy Productions, 1988.

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Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customers, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Letter to Susan B. Anthony. 14 June 1860.

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Friend, there's nobody up there shooting back at you. It isn't always being fast or even accurate that counts. It's being willing. I found out early that most men, regardless of cause or need, aren't willing. They blink an eye or draw a breath before they pull a trigger. I won't.

The Shootist

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The Shootist. Directed by Don Siegel, Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica/Dino de Laurentiis Company, 1976.

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And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Waif: A Collection of Poems

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "Proem." The Waif: A Collection of Poems. Boston: John Owen, 1845, st. 11.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Day Is Done." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, st. 11.

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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Willa Cather

My Antonia

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Cather, Willa. My Antonia. Houghton Mifflin, 1918, bk. 2, ch. 7.

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Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015, bk. 2, ch. 7.

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It's our wits that make us men.

Malcom Wallace

Braveheart

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Braveheart. Directed by Mel Gibson, Icon Productions/The Ladd Company, 1995.

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But where shall wisdom be found?

Job

Job 28:12

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 28:12).

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So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts.

James Madison

Federalist 10

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Madison, James [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 10: The Same Subject Continued: The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection." Daily Advertiser, 22 Nov. 1787.

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Madison, James. "No. 10: An extensive republic a remedy for mischiefs of faction.--Madison." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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