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Eeyore was saying to himself, "This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it."

A.A. Milne

Winnie-the-Pooh

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Milne, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh. Methuen/Dutton, 1926.

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Milne, A. A. Winnie-the-Pooh. Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2017.

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You’ve been given a great gift, George, a chance to see what the world would be like without you.

It's a Wonderful Life

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It's a Wonderful Life. Directed by Frank Capra, Liberty Films, 1946.

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What we are doing in Korea is this: we are trying to prevent a third world war.

Harry Truman

Explaining why he had fired General Douglas MacArthur.

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Truman, Harry S. "Report to the American People on Korea." 11 Apr. 1951, Washington, DC, USA.

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The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. "Chance for Peace." American Society for Newspaper Editors meeting. 16 Apr. 1953, Washington, DC, USA.

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There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to succeed and be great. Our thought has been "Let every man look out for himself, let every generation look out for itself," while we reared giant machinery which made it impossible that any but those who stood at the levers of control should have a chance to look out for themselves.

Woodrow Wilson

First Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson

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Wilson, Woodrow. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1913, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its "victims".

Susan Sontag

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Sontag, Susan. AIDS and its Metaphors. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989, ch. 1.

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Do you know how popular I am? I am so popular everybody loves me so much at this school.

The Breakfast Club

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The Breakfast Club. Directed by John Hughes, A&M Films/Channel Productions, 1985.

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A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.

Le Corbusier

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Corbusier, Le. Quand Les Cathedrales Etaient Blanches [When the Cathedrals Were White]. Librairie Plon, 1937.

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Corbusier, Le. When the Cathedrals Were White. McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964.

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To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "Seventh Annual Message." Joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives. 3 Dec. 1907, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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You will be in the public eye. Beware of them cameras. Oh, them cameras are bad as any narcotic.

Elijah Muhammad

Malcolm X

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

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Just so you know, judging from my little experience last night, I do think there is such a thing as fate. It just works in really fucked up ways sometimes.

Can't Hardly Wait

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Can't Hardly Wait. Directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, Columbia Pictures/Tall Trees Productions, 1998.

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You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.

Hermann Hesse

Demian

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Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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It was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

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Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. Faber & Faber, 1989.

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The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

Alfred Kinsey

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Kinsey, Alfred. "Essay: The Homosexual in America." Time Magazine, 21 Jan. 1966.

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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Samuel Beckett

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Beckett, Samuel. "Samuel Beckett Talks About Beckett." Vogue, Dec. 1969.

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We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. It cannot lead, it can only serve; and it is not fastidious in its choice of a leader.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. "The Goal of Human Existence." NBC Broadcast for the United Jewish Appeal. 11 Apr. 1943.

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Einstein, Albert. "The Goal of Human Existence." Out of My Later Years. Philosophical Library, 2015, ch. 51.

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Maybe you can't override prejudice overnight, but the Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, ninety-odd years ago. I believe in gradualism. I also believe that ninety-odd years is pretty gradual.

Thurgood Marshall

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Marshall, Thurgood. "Fighting Back: 1957-1962." Eyes on the Prize, created by Henry Hampton, performances by Thurgood Marshall, season 1, episode 2, Blackside, 1987.

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