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Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

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In response to Dan Quayle's claim to have "as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy had when he sought the presidency."

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Bentsen, Lloyd. Speech in Nebraska. Vice-Presidential Debate. 5 Oct. 1988, Civic Auditorium, Omaha, NE, USA.

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The adoption of the concept of Black Power is one of the most legitimate and healthy developments in American politics and race relations in our time.... It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to begin to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations and to support those organizations. It is a call to reject the racist institutions and values of this society.

Stokely Carmichael

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Black Power: The Politics of Liberation

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Carmichael, Stokely and Charles Vernon Hamilton. Black Power: The Politics of Liberation. Random House, 1967.

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All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

G.K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy

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Chesterton, G.K. "Orthodoxy." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 1, Ignatius Press, 1986, ch. 4. Originally published by John Lane Co., 1908.

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I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him.

Carl Jung

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Jung, Carl. Letter to an unnamed clergyman. 1952.

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All art is collaboration.

John Millington Synge

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Synge, John Millington. The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts. J. W. Luce and Company, 1907, preface.

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Synge, John Millington. "The Playboy of the Western World." The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays. Penguin Classics, 1997, preface.

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These are the days when men of all social disciplines and all political faiths seek the comfortable and the accepted; when the man of controversy is looked upon as a disturbing influence; when originality is taken to be a mark of instability; and when, in minor modification of the scriptural parable, the bland lead the bland.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The Affluent Society

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Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Affluent Society. Houghton Mifflin, 1958, ch. 1, sect. 3.

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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Adams, Douglas. "Fit the Twelfth." The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Secondary Phase. BBC Radio 4, London, England, UK, 25 Jan. 1980.

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Adams, Douglas. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Pan Books, 1980, ch. 28.

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Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realise how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Proust, Marcel. Le Côté de Guermantes [The Guermantes Way]. Paris: Gallimard, 1920-1921.

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Proust, Marcel. The Guermantes Way, edited and translated by Mark Treharne. Penguin Classics, 2005.

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I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Jim Morrison

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Morrison, Jim. Quoted in "Pop Music: Swimming to the Moon." Time Magazine, 24 Nov. 1967.

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Come to Los Angeles! The sun shines bright, the beaches are wide and inviting, and the orange groves stretch as far as the eye can see. There are jobs aplenty and land is cheap. Every working man can have his own house, and inside every house, a happy, all-American family. You can have all this, and who knows...you could even be discovered, become a movie star...or at least see one. Life is good in Los Angeles... It's paradise on Earth.

L.A. Confidential

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L.A. Confidential. Directed by Curtis Hanson, Regency Enterprises/The Wolper Organization, 1997.

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My mind is a raging torrent flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

Blazing Saddles

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Blazing Saddles. Directed by Mel Brooks, Crossbow Productions, 1974.

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You know, I started out on clean up, just like you guys. But now…see, I’m washing lettuce. Soon I’ll be on fries; then the grill. A year or two, I make assistant manager, and that’s where the big bucks start rollin' in.

Coming to America

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

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I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.

Ogden Nash

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Nash, Ogden. "Song of the Open Road." The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 1932.

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Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Niebuhr, Reinhold. "Humour and Faith." Discerning the Signs of the Times: Sermons for Today and Tomorrow. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946.

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Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.

Wendell Berry

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Berry, Wendell. "Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front." The Country of Marriage. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973.

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Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

John Updike

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Updike, John. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs. Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, ch. 6.

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If we simply accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything... That smacks of discrimination or slander.

Mary McLeod Bethune

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Bethune, Mary McLeod. "Certain Unalienable Rights." What the Negro Wants, edited by Rayford Logan. University of North Carolina Press, 1944.

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America, our America, the America builded on the foundation laid by the inspired fathers, can be a party to no permanent military alliance. It can enter into no political commitments, nor assume any economic obligations which will subject our decisions to any other than our own authority.

Warren G. Harding

Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding

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Harding, William G. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1921, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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There is probably no sensitive heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied at one time or another with his latent homosexuality.

Norman Mailer

The Homosexual Villain

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Mailer, Norman. "The Homosexual Villain." Advertisements for Myself. Harvard University Press, 1959. Originally published in One Magazine, Jan. 1955.

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In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than the glorification of the splendid system that makes them so.

Theodor Adorno

Minima Moralia

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Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben [Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life]. Suhrkamp Verlag, 1951.

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Adorno, Theodor. Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, translated by E. F. N. Jephcott. Verso, 2020.

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