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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.

John Maynard Keynes

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Keynes, John Maynard. The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Self-published, 1919, ch. 6.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "The Economic Consequences of the Peace." The Essential Keynes, edited by Robert Skidelsky. Penguin, 2016, ch. 6.

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The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again, but baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.

Field of Dreams

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Field of Dreams. Directed by Phil Alden Robinson, Gordon Company, 1989.

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Michael, I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing and it was everything I thought it could be.

Office Space

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

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Our Nation can be strong abroad only if it is strong at home. And we know that the best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

Jimmy Carter

Inaugural Address of Jimmy Carter

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

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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Douglas Adams

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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Adams, Douglas. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. William Heinemann, 1988, ch. 13.

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A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

Akio Morita

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Morita, Akio and Edwin M. Reingold and Mitsuko Simomura. Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony. ‎E. P. Dutton, 1986.

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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant, was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.

Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 17.

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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. 17.

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We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another—until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

Richard Nixon

First Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon

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Nixon, Richard. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1969, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog.

Roald Dahl

Matilda

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Dahl, Roald. Matilda. Viking Kestrel, 1988.

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Men are rats, listen to me, they're fleas on rats, worse than that, they're amoebas on fleas on rats. I mean, they're too low for even the dogs to bite. The only man a girl can depend on is her daddy.

Grease

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Grease. Directed by Randal Kleiser, Allan Carr Enterprises/Stigwood Group, 1978.

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In the past the man has been first. In the future the System must be first.

Frederick Winslow Taylor

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Taylor, Frederick Winslow. The Principles of Scientific Management. Harper & Brothers, 1911, introduction.

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Taylor, Frederick Winslow. The Principles of Scientific Management. Engineering & Management Press, 1998, introduction.

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Without the cold war, what's the point of being an American?

John Updike

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Updike, John. Rabbit at Rest. Alfred A. Knopf, 1990, ch. 3.

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Still the rain kept pouring, falling on my ears,
And I wonder, still I wonder, who'll stop the rain.

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Who'll Stop the Rain

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Fogerty, John. "Who'll Stop the Rain." Performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Cosmo's Factory. Fantasy Records, 1970.

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I want you to hold onto God's unchanging hand 'cause he helped Joshua fight the Battle of Jericho. Yes. He helped Daniel get out of the lion's den. He helped Gilligan get off the island!

Coming to America

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Coming To America. Directed by John Landis, Eddie Murphy Productions, 1988.

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Let us pray to God... The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Samuel Beckett

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Beckett, Samuel. Fin de partie. Directed by Roger Blin. Performed by Roger Blin, Jean Martin, Georges Adet, and Christine Tsingos. 3 Apr. 1957, Royal Court Theatre, London, England, UK.

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

The First Wives Club

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The First Wives Club. Directed by Hugh Wilson, Paramount Pictures, 1996.

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When in doubt have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.

Raymond Chandler

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Chandler, Raymond. "The Simple Art of Murder." Saturday Review of Literature, 15 Apr. 1950, introduction.

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In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.

James Q. Wilson

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Wilson, James Q. "The Rediscovery of Character: Private Virtue and Public Policy." The Public Interest, no. 81, Fall 1985.

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The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing-a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction. THe Middle Age regarded skin color with mild curiousity; and even up into the eighteenth century we were hammering our national manikins into one, great, Universal Man, with fine frenzy which ignored color and race even more than birth. Today we have changed all that, and the world in a sudden, emotional conversion has discovered that it is white and by that token, wonderful!

W.E.B. Du Bois

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. "The Souls of White Folk." Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil. Harcourt, Brace And Howe, 1920.

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Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt. "The Souls of White Folk." Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Oxford University Press, 2014.

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I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?