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Sorry boss, but there's only two men I trust. One of them's me. The other's not you.

Con Air

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Con Air. Directed by Simon West, Touchstone Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 1997.

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Patton. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. 20th Century Fox, 1969.

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"Pilot." Twin Peaks, written by Mark Frost and David Lynch, directed by David Lynch, season 1, episode 1, Lynch Entertainment and Lynch/Frost Productions and Spelling Entertainment, 1990.

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Kennedy, John F. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1961, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "Kim." McClure's Magazine, Dec. 1900 - Oct. 1901.

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Kipling, Rudyard. Kim, edited by Zohreh T. Sullivan. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.

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Easy Rider. Directed by Dennis Hopper. Pando Company Inc./Raybert Productions, 1969.

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Lennon, John. "Working Class Hero." John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. Apple Records, 1970.

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Groundhog Day. Directed by Harold Ramis, Columbia Pictures, 1993.

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Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.

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Gibran, Kahlil. "The Coming of the Ship." The Prophet. Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.

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Gibran, Kahlil. "The Coming of the Ship." The Prophet. Penguin Classics, 2019.

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Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." Horizon, Apr. 1946, vol. 13, issue 76, pp. 252-265.

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Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 4: In Front of Your Nose 1945-1950, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 1999, no. 38.

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Whitehead, Alfred North. "Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology." Gifford Lecture. 1927–1928, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Whitehead, Alfred North. Process and Reality. Simon and Schuster, 2010, pt. 1, ch. 1, sec. 3.

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Reagan, Ronald. "Conservatives Rallied: Goldwater Can Win Presidency in 1968, CRA Convention." Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 1965, p. B5, col. 3. Originally, a joke during campaign for Governor of California in 1965.

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Sunset Boulevard. Directed by Billy Wilder, Paramount Pictures, 1950.

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Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

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Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

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Stalin, Joseph. The Foundations of Leninism. International Publishers, 1970, ch. 4, sect. 2. Originally a lecture called "The Dictatorship of the Proletariat." Foundations of Leninism lecture series. 1924, Sverdlov University, Moscow, Russia.

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Thatcher, Margaret. Speech to American Bar Association. 15 July 1985, Albert Hall, London, England, UK.

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Zedong, Mao. Talk with the American Correspondent Anna Louise Strong. Aug. 1946.