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Office Space. Directed by Mike Judge, Judgemental Films, 1999.

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Auden, W. H. "A Poet of the Actual." Forewords and Afterwords. Random House/Faber and Faber, 1973.

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Clinton, Hillary. Interview on 60 Minutes. CBS-TV, 26 Jan. 1992.

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The Silence of the Lambs. Directed by Jonathan Demme, Strong Heart Productions, 1991.

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Einstein, Albert. Quoted in The Universe and Dr. Eistein. Written by Lincoln Barnett. Sloane, 1950. Originally printed in Harpers, 1948.

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Plath, Sylvia. Letter to unknown recipient. June or July 1953.

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Gibran, Kahlil. Sand and Foam. Alfred A. Knopf, 1926.

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Fourth Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1945, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Fourth Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, January 20, 1945." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

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Home Alone. Directed by Chris Columbus, Hughes Entertainment , 1990.

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Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, ch. 10.

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Carter, James E. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1977, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The Matrix. Directed by The Wachowskis. Warner Bros./Village Roadshow Pictures/Groucho II Film Partnership/Silver Pictures, 1999.

Guts'll get you so far, then they'll get you killed.

Speed

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Speed. Directed by Jan De Bont, A Band Apart, 1994.

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Some Like it Hot. Directed by Billy Wilder, The Mirisch Company, 1959.

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Cather, Willa. My Antonia. Houghton Mifflin, 1918, bk. 5, ch. 3.

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Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015, bk. 5, ch. 3.

Boxing's just show business with blood.

Frank Bruno

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Bruno, Frank. Quoted in Guardian. 20 Nov. 1991.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

Jelly Roll Morton

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Morton, Jelly Roll. Quoted in Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz", written by Alan Lomax. Grosset & Dunlap, 1950.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 6.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 6.