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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Edward Everett

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Everett, Edward. "A Good Idea." Salem Gazette, 14 Mar. 1937.

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It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.

Horace Walpole

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Walpole, Horace. Letter to Horace Mann. 27 March 1772.

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Walpole, Horace. "Letter to Horace Mann." Horace Walpole's Correspondence, edited by W. S. Lewis, Warren Hunting Smith, and George Lam. Vol. 23, Yale University Press, 1967.

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Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

Philip James Bailey

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Bailey, Philip John. Festus. London: William Pickering, 1839.

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Bailey, Philip John. Festus, edited by Mischa Willett. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

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The sky is darkening like a stain;
Something is going to fall like rain,
And it won't be flowers.

W.H. Auden

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Auden, W. H. "The Witnesses." Listener’s poetry supplement, 12 July 1933.

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I have been one acquainted with the night.

Robert Frost

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Frost, Robert. "Acquainted with the Night." The Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1928, st. 1, I. 1.

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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

G.K. Chesterton

The Man who was Thursday: A Nightmare

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Chesterton, G.K. "The Man Who Was Thursday." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 6, Ignatius Press, 1991. Originally published by J.W. Arrowsmith, 1904.

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"Whom are you?" he asked, for he had attended business college.

George Ade

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Ade, George. "The Steel Box." Chicago Record, 16 Mar. 1898.

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You're not perfect, sport, and let me save you the suspense, this girl you've met, she's isn't perfect either. But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other.

Good Will Hunting

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Good Will Hunting. Directed by Gus Van Sant, Be Gentlemen, 1997.

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You're not a bad person. You're a terrific person. You're my favorite person, but every once in a while, you can be a real cunt.

Kill Bill: Volume 2

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Kill Bill: Volume 2. Directed by Quentin Tarantino, A Band Apart, 2004.

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Goodness is chosen. When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

A Clockwork Orange

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A Clockwork Orange. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Polaris Productions/Hawk Films, 1971.

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The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

Hannah Arendt

The Origins of Totalinarianism

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Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Schocken Books, 1951, pt. 3, ch. 13.

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Love is two people mutually feeding each other, not one living on the soul of the other like a ghoul.

Bessie Head

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Head, Bessie. A Question of Power. Davis-Poynter, 1973, pt. 1.

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My wife used to always say to me, "Why can't a woman have the same ambitions as a man." I think you're right. Maybe I've learned that much. But by the same token, I'd like to know, what law is it that says a woman is a better parent simply by virtue of her sex? I've had a lot of time to think about what it is that makes somebody a good parent, you know. It has to do with constancy. It has to do with patience. It has to do with listening to him. It has to do with pretending to listen to him when you can't even listen any more. It has to do with love—like, like, like she was saying. And I don't know where it's written that says that a woman has a corner on that market. That a man has any less of those emotions than a woman does?

Kramer vs. Kramer

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Kramer vs. Kramer. Directed by Robert Benton, Columbia Pictures, 1979.

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Yesterday, the greatest question was decided, which ever was debated in America, and a greater, perhaps, never was nor will be decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States."

John Adams

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Adams, John. Letter to Abigail Adams. 3 July 1776.

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Adams, John. My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor. Belknap Press, 2010.

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In this lifetime, you don’t have to prove nothin’ to nobody except yourself.

Rudy

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Rudy. Directed by David Anspaugh, TriStar Pictures, 1993.

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Campaign promises are-by long democratic tradition-the least binding form of human commitment.

Antonin Scalia

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Scalia, Antonin. United States, Supreme Court. Republican Party of Minnesota v. White. United States Reports, vol. 534, 17 June 2002, pp. 765-821. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/536/765/.

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