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Warriors, come out to play-i-ay.

The Warriors

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The Warrors. Directed by Walter Hill, Lawrence Gordon Productions, 1979.

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Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.

Ray Bradbury

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Bradbury, Ray. Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity. Joshua Odell Editions, 1990.

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Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure?

David Foster Wallace

Gourmet

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Wallace, David Foster. "Consider the Lobster." Gourmet, Aug. 2004.

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Wallace, David Foster. "Consider the Lobster." Consider the Lobster and Other Essays. Back Bay Books, 2007.

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Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.

The Outlaw Josey Wales

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The Outlaw Josey Wales. Directed by Clint Eastwood, The Malpaso Company, 1976.

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Those new regions which we found and explored with the fleet... We may rightly call a New World... A continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals other than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.

Amerigo Vespucci

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On the discovery of America.

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Vespucci, Amerigo. Letter to Lorenzo Pietro Francesco di Medici. c. Mar. 1503.

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Vespucci, Amerigo. "From Mundus Novus (Letter on His Third Voyage to Lorenzo Pietro Francesco di Medici, 1503)." Early American Writing, edited by Giles Gunn. Penguin Classics, 1994.

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For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day, worried about their bills, were dead. I mean, they were suckers. They had no balls. If we wanted something, we just took it. If anyone complained twice they got hit so bad, believe me, they never complained again. It was just all routine and you didn't even think about it.

Henry Hill

Goodfellas

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Goodfellas. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Warner Bros., 1990.

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Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, that's life. Trying to make ends meet, you're a slave to money then you die.

The Verve

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Bitter Sweet Symphony

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Ashcroft, Richard. "Bitter Sweet Symphony." Performed by The Verve. Urban Hymns. Hut Records, 1997.

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The Noble Truth of the Path leading to the Cessation of suffering is this: It is simply the Noble Eightfold Path, namely right view; right thought; right speech; right action; right livelihood; right effort; right mindfulness; right concentration.

Pali Tipitaka

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Pali Tipitaka. c. 100 BC, Samyutta Nikaya, pt. 56, p. 11.

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Meghaprasara, Matthew. New Guide to the Tipitaka. Sangha of Books, 2013, Samyutta Nikaya, pt. 56.

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A pretty girl is like a melody
That haunts you night and day.

Irving Berlin

A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody

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Berlin, Irving. "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody." Ziegfield Follies of 1919. Performed by John Steel. 1919, New York City, NY, USA.

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The Little Prince

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De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Le Petit Prince [The Little Prince]. Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943, ch. 1.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

The Will to Believe

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James, William. "The Will to Believe." Philosophical Club of Yale University. Apr. 1896, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Lecture.

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James, William. "The Will to Believe." William James: Essays and Lectures, edited by Richard Kamber. Routledge, 2016.

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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner

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Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. Riverhead Books, 2003.

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In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground.

George Eliot

Felix Holt, the Radical

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1866, ch. 18.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical, edited by Lynda Mugglestone. Penguin Classics, 1995, ch. 18.

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The wise and tragic sense of life. By this I mean...the sense that life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat, and that the redeeming things are not "happiness and pleasure" but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "To: Scottie Fitzgerals, October 5, 1940." Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Scribner, 1995. Originally from Letter to Frances Scott Fitzgerald, 5 Oct. 1940.

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I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

Invictus

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Henley, William Ernest. Book of Verses. London: David Nutt, 1888.

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Henley, William Ernest. "Invictus." A Selection of Poems. White Press, 2015, st. 4.

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The circle is now complete. When I left you, I was but the learner; now I am the master.

Darth Vader

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Directed by George Lucas, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1977.

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Joy to the world! the lord is come;
Let earth receive her King.
Let ev'ry heart prepare Him room,
And heav'n and nature sing.

Isaac Watts

Joy to the World

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Watts, Isaac. "Joy to the World." The Psalms of David: Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and Applied to the Christian State and Worship. London: J. Clark, 1719.

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