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They always say the key to a solid marriage is laughter.

Mrs. Doubtfire

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Mrs. Doubtfire. Directed by Chris Columbus, 20th Century Fox/Blue Wolf Productions, 1993.

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Great principles don't get lost once they come to light. They're right here; you just have to see them again!

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Directed by Frank Capra, Columbia Pictures, 1939.

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I don’t tip because society says I have to.

Reservoir Dogs

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Reservoir Dogs. Directed by Quentin Tarantino, Live America Inc./Dog Eat Dog Productions, 1992.

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This is true love. You think this happens every day?

The Princess Bride

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The Princess Bride. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Communications/Buttercup Films/The Princess Bride Ltd., 1987.

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Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. Commencement speech. 28 June 1905, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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If I do marry, I want it to be for love.

Aladdin

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Aladdin. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Feature Animation, 1992.

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He's more machine now than man. Twisted and evil.

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi. Directed by Richard Marquand, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1983.

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If you expect nothing from somebody, you are never disappointed.

Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar

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Plath, Sylvia [published as Victoria Lucas]. The Bell Jar. William Heinemann, 1963.

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In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhi, Mahatma. Speech at his trial. The Great Trial of 1922. 18 Mar. 1922, Ahmedabad, India.

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Gandhi, Mahatma. The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings, edited by Tridip Suhrud. Penguin Classics, 2019, pt. 1, ch. 9.

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There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind-wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.

Toni Morrison

Beloved

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Morrison, Toni. Beloved. Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.

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Yeah, Africa's my home. Damn America and what America thinks. Yeah, I live in America; but, Africa's the home of the black man. And I was a slave 400 years ago and I'm going back home to fight among my brothers. Yeah!

Muhammad Ali

When We Were Kings

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When We Were Kings. Directed by Leon Gast, Polygram/Image Entertainment Inc./Gramercy Pictures, 1996.

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Lesson number one: don't underestimate the other guy's greed!

Scarface

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

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And you’ll miss me more as the narrowing weeks wing by.

James Joyce

Finnegans Wake

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Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Faber and Faber, 1939.

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Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Wordsworth, 2012.

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I can’t be with someone like me. I hate myself! If anything, I need to get the exact opposite of me. It’s too much. It’s too much Kramer, I can’t take it. I can’t take it.

Jerry Seinfeld

Seinfeld

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"The Invitations." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Alec Berg, directed by Andy Ackerman, season 7, episode 22, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1996.

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What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ecce Homo

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist [Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is]. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1908.

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Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is, translated by Duncan Large. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Okay, here's the story. I come from the gutter. I know that. I got no education, but that's okay. I know the street, and I'm making all the right connections. With the right woman, there's no stopping me. I could go right to the top.

Tony Montana

Scarface

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

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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Muhammad Ali

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Ali, Muhammad. "Life with Ali (in a Neutral Corner)." Interviewed by Joyce Maynard. The New York Times, 6 Apr. 1977.

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You know, Jerry, I'm going to tell you something. Friendship is a two-way street. Do you know that? And you couldn't care less about me.

The King of Comedy

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The King of Comedy. Directed by Martin Scorses, Embassy International Pictures, 1982.

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With method and logic one can accomplish anything!

Agatha Christie

The Kidnapped Prime Minister

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Christie, Agatha. "The Kidnapped Prime Minister." Poirot Investigates. The Bodley Head, 1924.

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Now for some reason I fit in the army like one of them round pegs. It's not really hard. You just make your bed real neat, remember to stand up straight, and always answer every question with, "Yes, Drill Sargent!"