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In the heat of battle my father wove a tapestry of obscenity that, as far as we know, is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

Ralphie Parker

A Christmas Story

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A Christmas Story. Directed by Bob Clark, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1983.

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Laws were made to be broken.

Christopher North

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North, Christopher. "Noctes Ambrosianae." Blackwood's Magazine, May 1830.

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Well, sir, there are other means of persuasion besides killing and threatening to kill.

The Maltese Falcon

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The Maltese Falcon. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros., 1941.

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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

T.H. Huxley

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "On Elemental Instruction in Physiology." 1877. Lecture.

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Some sense of religious mission is part of being American.

John Updike

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Updike, John. Quoted in "God's Country" by Michael Wood. New York Book Review, 29 Feb. 1996.

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As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, because it is impossible to tell where it ends.

Jeremy Bentham

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Bentham, Jeremy. "Principles of the Penal Code." Theory of Legislation. Vol. 2, Boston: Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840.

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The skies they were ashen and sober;
The leaves they were crisped and sere,
The leaves they were withering and sere;
It was night in the lonesome October
Of my most immemorial year.

Edgar Allan Poe

American Whig Review

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Poe, Edgar Allan, [published anonymously]. "Ulalume: A Ballad." American Whig Review, Dec. 1847, st. 1.

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Poe, Edgar Allan. "Ulalume - A Ballad." Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales, edited by Patrick F. Quinn. Library of America, 1984, st. 1.

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Mother needs something today to calm her down,
And though she's not really ill,
There's a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter
Of her mother's little helper
And it helps her on her way,
Gets her through her busy day.

The Rolling Stones

Mother's Little Helper

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Jagger, Mick and Keith Richards. "Mother's Little Helper." Performed by The Rolling Stones. Aftermath. Decca Records/London Recordings, 1966.

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In the highlands, in the country places,
Where the old plain men have rosy faces,
And the young fair maidens
Quiet eyes.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "In the Highlands, in the Country Places." Songs of Travel and Other Verses. London: Chatto & Windus, 1896.

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People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television—you don't feel anything.

Andy Warhol

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again)

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Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, ch. 6.

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You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

Kahlil Gibran

The Prophet

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Gibran, Kahlil. "On Marriage." The Prophet. Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.

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Gibran, Kahlil. "On Marriage." The Prophet. Penguin Classics, 2019.

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A man should not marry after thirty years of age; should not enter the government service after the age of forty; should not have any more children after the age of fifty; and should not travel after the age of sixty. This is because the proper time for those things has passed.

Shi Nai'An

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Shi Nai'an. Water Margin. c. 1524, vol. 1, introduction.

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Shi Naian. The Water Margin, translated by J. H. Jackson. Tuttle Publishing, 2010, forward.

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Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; guard it well, for it is your life.

Proverbs 4:13

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The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (Proverbs 4:13).

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Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo....

James Joyce

The Egoist

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Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man." The Egoist. 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915. Serial.

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Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch. 1.

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A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

God

Genesis 4:12

To Cain, after he killed his brother Abel.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Genesis 4:12).

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And now, we can see a new world coming into view. A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order.

George H.W. Bush

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Bush, George H. W. Address before a joint session of Congress. 6 Mar. 1991, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

John Keats

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Keats, John. Endymion: A Poetic Romance. London: Taylor & Hessey, 1818, preface.

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Keats, John. "Endymion." John Keats: The Major Works, edited by Elizabeth Cook. Oxford University Press, 2009, preface.

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It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history...and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.

Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. "Letter III." Letters from the Earth. Harper & Row, 1962.

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Twain, Mark. Letters from the Earth." Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings, edited by Bernard DeVoto. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004, letter 3.

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How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward the light? Are we nearing the light—a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night are closing in upon us?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

First Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1953, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. So governments' programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth.

Ronald Reagan

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Reagan, Ronald. "A Time for Choosing." U.S. presidential election campaign. 27 Oct. 1964, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, USA. TV broadcast.

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