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He had a theory that if you should find one perfect thing, or place or person, you should stick to it. Do you think that's very silly?

Rebecca

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Rebecca. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Selznick International Pictures, 1940.

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It's basic dog psychology, if you scare them and get them peeing down their leg, they submit. But if you project weakness, you draw aggression, that's how people get hurt.

Point Break

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Point Break. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Johnny Utah Productions/Largo Entertainment, 1991.

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Nor is the people's judgment always true:
The most may err as grossly as the few.

John Dryden

Absalom and Achitophel

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Dryden, John. Absalom and Achitophel. London: Jacob Tonson, 1681, pt. 1, I. 781.

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Dryden, John. "Absalom and Achitophel." John Dryden Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2002, pt. 1, I. 781.

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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

Jacques Delille

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Delille, Jacques. La Pitié, poeme en quatre chants. Brunswick: F. Vieweg, c. 1804, canto 1.

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The best love is the kind that awakens the soul, and makes us reach for more, that, plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me and what I hope to give to you forever.

The Notebook

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The Notebook. Directed by Nick Cassavetes, Gran Via, 2004.

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We'd only been gone two days but somehow the town seemed different; smaller.

Stand By Me

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Stand By Me. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Productions, 1986.

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Crack-Up." Esquire, Feb. 1936.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Crack-Up." My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940, edited by James L.W. West, III. Cambridge UP, 2005.

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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "Citizenship in a Republic." 23 Apr. 1910, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "Citizenship in a Republic." Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.: Letters and Speeches, edited by Louis Auchincloss. Library of America, 2004.

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Has the whole world gone crazy? Am I the only one around here who gives a shit about the rules? Mark it zero!

The Big Lebowski

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The Big Lebowski. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Working Title Films, 1998.

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Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

D.H. Lawrence

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Lawrence, D.H. Women in Love. Thomas Seltzer, 1920, ch. 11.

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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we have, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life: What a Man Has." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 1, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Sabine Roehr and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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What can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished? The hard reality is, surely, that for the likes of you and I, there is little choice other than to leave our fate, ultimately, in the hands of those great gentlemen at the hub of this world who employ our services. What is the point in worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one’s life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy. And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that is in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

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Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. Faber & Faber, 1989.

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Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.

Henrik Ibsen

Pillars of Society

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Ibsen, Henrik. Samfundets støtter [The Pillars of Society]. Kobenhavn: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1877, act 3.

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Ibsen, Henrik. "Pillars of the Community." A Doll's House and Other Plays, translated by Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik. Penguin Classics, 2016, act 3.

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Suns, that set, may rise again:
But if, once, we lose this light,
'Tis with us perpetual night.

Ben Jonson

Volpone

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Jonson, Ben. Volpone. King's Men. Spring 1606, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

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Jonson, Ben. "Volpone." Ben Jonson: Five Plays, edited by G. A. Wilkes. Oxford University Press, 2009, act 3.

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You gotta make life interesting like that cause the shit is flimsy. Life is flimsy. You…you think you’re gonna live, but ain’t nobody gon’ live forever.

Dave Chappelle

Killin' Them Softly

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Chappelle, Dave. Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly. HBO, 26 July 2000.

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After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Methuen, 1908, ch. 1.

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Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind in the Willows. Barnes & Noble, 2013, ch. 1.

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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves—there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.

Joan Didion

Vogue

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Didion, Joan. "Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power." Vogue, 1 Aug. 1961.

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Didion, Joan. "On Self-Respect." Slouching Towards Bethlehem. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.

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Information almost wants to be free.

Stewart Brand

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Brand, Stewart. Spoken during a conversation with Steve Wosniak. The First Hackers Conference. Nov. 1984, Marin County, San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA.

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You tread upon my patience.

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 1

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Shakespeare, William. Henry IV, Part 1. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1597, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "The First Part of Henry the Fourth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, 2015, act 1, sc. 3.

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All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Woman's Sphere

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Stowe, Harriet Beecher. "Woman's Sphere." The Chimney-Corner. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868.

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