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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian-ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

Lytton Strachey

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Eminent Victorians

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Strachey, Lytton. Eminent Vicorians. Chatto & Windus, 1918, preface.

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Strachey, Lytton. Eminent Vicorians. Penguin Classics, 1990, preface.

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History does not provide us with any instance of a society that repressed the economic liberties of the individual while being solicitous of his other liberties.

Irving Kristol

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Two Cheers for Capitalism

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Kristol, Irving. Two Cheers for Capitalism. Basic Books, 1978, preface.

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I want to go on living even after death!

Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl

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Frank, Anne. Journal entry. 5 Apr. 1944.

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My alma mater was books.

Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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Malcolm X. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley. Grove Press, 1965.

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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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The last time I trusted you we ended up with a son.

Do the Right Thing

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Do the Right Thing. Directed by Spike Lee, 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks, 1989.

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I don't like gentlemen who grin at me.

Notorious

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Notorious. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, RKO Pictures/Vanguard Films, 1946.

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I'll be back.

The Terminator

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The Terminator. Directed by James Cameron, Hemdale/Pacific Western Productions/Euro Film Funding/Cinema '84, 1984.

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You're a legend in your own mind.

Sudden Impact

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Sudden Impact. Directed by Clint Eastwood, Warner Bros., 1983.

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I love you so much and I hate this war so much.

Casablanca

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Casablanca. Directed by Michael Curtiz, Warner Bros. Pictures, 1942.

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How did things ever get so far? I don't know.

Don Vito Corleone

The Godfather

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The Godfather. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Paramount Pictures/Alfran Productions, 1972.

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"If there is hope," he had written in the diary, "it lies in the proles."

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 8.

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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 3, ch. 2.

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Is it possible that I’m not as attractive as I think I am?

Elaine Benes

Seinfeld

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"The Smelly Car." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Peter Mehlman, directed by Tom Cherones, season 4, episode 21, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1993.

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In my humble opinion, in the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself.

Crimson Tide

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Crimson Tide. Directed by Tony Scott, Hollywood Pictures/Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 1995.

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You are not an American, you are the victim of America!

Malcolm X

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Malcolm X. Directed by Spike Lee, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 1992.

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You know what capitalism is? Getting fucked!

Tony Montana

Scarface

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Scarface. Directed by Brian De Palma, Universal Pictures, 1983.

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I think I'll miss you most of all.

Dorothy Gale

The Wizard of Oz

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The Wizard of Oz. Directed by Victor Fleming. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

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Welcome to the real world. It sucks. You’re gonna love it.

Monica Geller

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Friends

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"The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate." Friends, written by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, directed by James Burrows, season 1, episode 1, Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions and Warner Bros. Television, 1994.

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He’s a re-gifter.

Elaine Benes

Seinfeld

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"The Label Maker." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Alec Berg, directed by Andy Ackerman, season 6, episode 12, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1995.

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