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But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, and can recapture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty of it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, cold waking and all its penalties.

Kenneth Grahame

The Wind in the Willows

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

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

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I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living.

Harvey Milk

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The Times of Harvey Milk. Directed by Rob Epstein, Pacific Arts/Black Sand Productions, 1984.

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From religion comes a man's purpose; from science his power to achieve it.

William Henry Bragg

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Bragg, William Henry. "Sound in War." c. Christmas 1919, The Royal Institution, Westminster, London, England, UK. Lecture.

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A steady patriot of the world alone,
The friend of every country but his own.

George Canning

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Canning, George. "New Morality." Anti-Jacobin Magazine and Review, 1821.

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My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.

Carl Schurz

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Schurz, Carl. Remarks at senate meeting. Senate meeting. 29 Feb. 1872, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone!

The Twilight Zone

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"The Man in the Bottle." The Twilight Zone, written by Rod Serling, directed by Don Medford, season 2, episode 2, Cayuga Productions and CBS Television Network, 1960.

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Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.

Jeremy Bentham

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

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Bentham, Jeremy. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. London: T. Payne, 1789, ch. 1.

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Bentham, Jeremy. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Dover Publications, 2007, ch. 1.

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Died some, pro patria,
Non 'dulce' non 'et decor'…
Walked eye-deep in hell
Believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving
Came home, home to a lie.

Ezra Pound

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Pound, Ezra. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. The Ovid Press, 1920, pt. 1, poem 4.

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Think big, think positive, never show any sign of weakness. Always go for the throat. Buy low, sell high. Fear? That's the other guy's problem. Nothing you have ever experienced will prepare you for the unbridled carnage you are about to witness. Superbowl, The World Series—they don't know what pressure is. In this building, it's either kill or be killed. You make no friends in the pits and you take no prisoners. One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley. Are you with me?

Trading Places

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Trading Places. Directed by John Landis, Paramount Pictures Studios/Cinema Group Ventures, 1983.

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When I go home people'll ask me, "Hey Hoot, why do you do it man? Why, you some kinda war junkie?" I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand that it's about the man next to you, and that's it. That's all it is.

Black Hawk Down

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Black Hawk Down. Directed by Ridley Scott, Scott Free Productions/Revolution Studios/Columbia Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 2001.

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The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a star.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme. The Physiology of Taste [Physiologie du Goût]. Paris, 1825, aph. 9.

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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, aph. 9.

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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Colton, Charles Caleb. Lacon: Or Many Things In Few Words Addressed To Those Who Think. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.

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So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning.

Job 42:12

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 42:12).

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Nothing haunts like the things we don't say.

Mitch Albom

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Have a Little Faith

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Albom, Mitch. Have a Little Faith: A True Story. Hachette Books/Hyperion, 2009.

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The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few.

Jesus

Matthew 9:37

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 9:37).

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There may be dark days ahead, and war can no longer be confined to the battlefield, but we can only do the right as we see the right, and reverently commit our cause to God. If one and all, we keep resolutely faithful to it, then, with God's help, we shall prevail.

The King's Speech

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The King's Speech. Directed by Tom Hooper, UK Film Council/Momentum Pictures/Aegis Film Fund Molinare, London/FilmNation Entertainment/See-Saw Films/Bedlam Productions, 2010.

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