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Cooking is the most ancient of arts, for Adam was born hungry.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste [Physiologie du Goût]. Paris, 1825, meditation 27.

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Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste: Or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy, translated by M. F. K. Fisher. Vintage, 2011, meditation 27.

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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Thomas Paine

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Paine, Thomas. Dissertation on First Principles of Government. Paris: The English Press, 1795.

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Paine, Thomas. "Dissertation on First Principles of Government." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Lord of himself, though not of lands;
And having nothing, yet hath all.

Henry Wotton

The Character of a Happy Life

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Wotton, Henry. "The Character of a Happy Life." Reliquiae Wottonianae. London: R. Marriot, G. Bedel, and T. Garthwait, 1651, st. 6.

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Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Marines. You're part of a brotherhood. From now on until the day you die, wherever you are, every Marine is your brother. Most of you will go to Vietnam. Some of you will not come back. But always remember this, marines die. That's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever and that means you live forever.

Gunnery Sargent Hartman

Full Metal Jacket

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Full Metal Jacket. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Natant/Harrier Films, 1987.

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The three great elements of modern civilisation, Gunpowder, Printing and the Protestant Religion.

Thomas Carlyle

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Carlyle, Thomas. "State of German Literature." Edinburgh Review, Oct. 1827.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "State of German Literature." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 26, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Near this spot
Are deposited the Remains of one
Who possessed Beauty without Vanity,
Strength without Insolence,
Courage without Ferocity,
And all the Virtues of Man without his Vices.

Lord Byron

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Lord Byron. "Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog." 1808.

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Excuse me, excuse me, I don't mean to harass you, but I was very impressed with the capable and stylish manner in which you dealt with that situation. I was thinking to myself, now, this girl's special.

Trainspotting

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Trainspotting. Directed by Danny Boyle, Channel Four Films/Figment Films/Noel Gay Motion Picture Company, 1996.

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Sometimes people need a little help. Sometimes people need to be forgiven. And sometimes they need to go to jail.

Magnolia

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Magnolia. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Ghoulardi Film Company/JoAnne Sellar Productions, 1999.

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There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

Francis Drake

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Drake, Francis. Dispatch to Francis Walsingham. 17 May 1587, Francis Drake's ship, Iberian coasts between Lisbon and Cape St. Vincent. Dispatch.

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Tell me the old, old story
Of unseen things above,
Of Jesus and his glory,
Of Jesus and his love.

Katherine Hankey

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Tell Me the Old, Old Story

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Hankey, Kate. Tell me the old, old story. Composed by William Hovard Doane. c. 1867.

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He's always attracted by the art he isn't practicing, the place he hasn't been, the girl he hasn't met.

An Affair to Remember

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An Affair to Remember. Directed by Leo McCarey, Jerry Wald Productions, 1957.

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People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again-but it finds a tougher surface.

Willa Cather

The Song of the Lark

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Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915, pt. 2, ch. 11.

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Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Vintage, 1999, pt. 2, ch. 11.

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And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

Dr. Seuss

The King's Stilts

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Dr. Seuss. The King's Stilts. Random House, 1939.

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I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade

W.H. Auden

September 1,1939

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Auden, W. H. "September 1, 1939." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940. Originally published in The New Republic, 18 Oct. 1939.

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But, friend, to me
He is all fault who hath no fault at all:
For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

Alfred Tennyson

Idylls of the King

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Tennyson, Alfred. "Lancelot and Elaine." Idylls of the King. London: Edward Moxon, 1859, I. 131-133.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Lancelot and Elaine." Idylls of the King, edited by J. M. Gray. Penguin Classics, 1989, I. 131-133.

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Surprised, Eddie? If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn’t be more surprised than I am right now.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik, Hughes Entertainment, 1989.

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Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Psalm 51:5

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Psalm 51:5).

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Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow. But when the brilliance given by Zeus comes, a shining light is on man, and a gentle lifetime.

Pindar

Pythian Odes

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Pindar. Pythian Odes. c. 474, pythian 8.

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Pindar. The Complete Odes, translated by Anthony Verity. Oxford University Press, 2008, pythian 8.

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We are continually dying; I while I am writing these words, you while you are reading them, others when they hear them or fail to hear them. I shall be dying when you read this, you die while I write, we both are dying, we all are dying, we are dying forever.

Petrarch

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Petrarch. Letter to Philippe, Biship of Cavaillon. c. 1360.

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Petrarch. "To Philippe, Bishop of Cavaillon, concerning the incredible flight of time." Letters of Familiar Matters (Rerum Familiarum Libri), translated by Aldo Bernardo. Vol. 3, Italica Press, 2008.