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South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, "kiss-kiss" and "bang-bang."

Hortense Powdermaker

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Powdermaker, Hortense. Hollywood, the Dream Factory: An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers. Little, Brown and Company, 1950, introduction.

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There's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

Edith Wharton

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Wharton, Edith. "The Last Asset." The Hermit and the Wild Woman and Other Stories. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908.

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There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Karl Popper

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Popper, Karl. The Open Society and Its Enemies. Vol. 2, Routledge, 1995, ch. 25.

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I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not.

The Green Mile

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The Green Mile. Directed by Frank Darabont, Castle Rock Entertainment/Darkwoods Productions, 1999.

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One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals... This is the belief that somewhere, in the past or in the future, in divine revelation or in the mind of an individual thinker, in the pronouncements of history or science, or in the simple heart of an uncorrupted good man, there is a final solution.

Isaiah Berlin

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Berlin, Isaiah. "Two Concepts of Liberty." 31 Oct. 1958, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK. Lecture.

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Berlin, Isaiah. "Two Concepts of Liberty." Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty, edited by Henry Hardy. Oxford University Press, 2002.

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One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Bertrand Russell

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Russell, Bertrand. The Conquest of Happiness. Liveright, 1930, ch. 9.

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We'll meet again,
Don't know where, don't know when,
But I know we'll meet again some sunny day.

Vera Lynn

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Parker, Ross and Hughie Charles. We'll Meet Again. Performed by Vera Lynn. Michael Ross Limited, 1939.

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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

Bertrand Russell

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Russell, Bertrand. "The Study of Mathematics." The New Quarterly, Nov. 1907.

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Russell, Bertrand. The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, edited by Robert E. Egner and Lester E. Denonn. Routledge, 2009, ch. 31.

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It was all over—I was dead. What would it be? The guillotine? Hanging? The chair? The rack? The Chinese water torture? Mmph. Mere child's play compared to what surely awaited me.

Ralphie Parker

A Christmas Story

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A Christmas Story. Directed by Bob Clark, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1983.

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The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

Paul Ralph Ehrlich

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Ehrlich, Paul Ralph. Quoted in Saturday Review. 5 June 1971.

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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for one hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter, and to write it in the books of law.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Johnson, Lyndon B. First address to Congress as President. 27 Nov. 1963, US Capital Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children, the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best, after all.

Benjamin Spock

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Spock, Benjamin. The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946, ch. 1.

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Now, there's one thing that you men will be able to say when you get back home and you may thank God for it. Thirty years from now, when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you, "What did you do in the great World War II?" you won't have to say, "Well...I shoveled shit in Louisiana."

General George S. Patton Jr.

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

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The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

Winifred Holtby

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Holtby, Winifred. Quoted in Testament of Friendship: The Story of Winifred Holtby, written by Vera Brittain. Macmillan & Co., 1940.

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Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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Ehrenreich, Barbara. "Family Values." The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed. HarperCollins, 1991.

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Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile wind. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest 57 seconds. Inform press. Home Christmas.

Orville Wright

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Wright, Orville. Telegram to Reverend Milton Wright. 17 Dec. 1903.

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Wright, Orville. Quoted in To Fly: The Story of the Wright Brothers, written by Wendie C. Old. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002.

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Everyone runs in her own way, or his own way and where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.

Chariots of Fire

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Chariots of Fire. Directed by Hugh Hudson, Allied Stars Ltd/Goldcrest Films/Enigma Productions, 1981.

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The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

Masanobu Fukuoka

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Fukuoka, Masanobu. 自然農法わら一本の革命 [One-Straw Revolution]. Hakujusha, 1975.

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On guard at night you'll write letters, play with your organ, and think of your girl back home. Forget her. Some hair head has her on her back right now and is telling her to fuck for peace.

Hamburger Hill

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Hamburger Hill. Directed by John Irvin, RKO Pictures, 1987.

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Our system of government made up of three separate and independent departments, our divided sovereignty composed of Nation and State, the matchless wisdom that is enshrined in our Constitution, all these need constant effort and tireless vigilance for their protection and support.

Calvin Coolidge

Second Inaugural Address of Calvin Coolidge

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Coolidge, Calvin. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1925, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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