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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 1.

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 1.

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A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhi, Mahatma. Ethical Religion: Nithi Dharma. S. Ganesan, 1922.

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You got to get your kid on or your groove on. You can’t get both on at the same time.

Chris Rock

Bigger & Blacker

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Rock, Chris. Bigger & Blacker. HBO, 10 July 1999.

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Our original guiding stars are struggle and hope.

Pablo Neruda

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Neruda, Pablo. "Towards the Splendid City." Acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature. 13 Dec. 1971, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Neruda, Pablo. "Towards the Splendid City." Nobel Lectures in Literature, 1968-1980. World Scientific Publishing Co., 2007.

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Listen, you promise me something, OK? Just if you’re ever in trouble, don’t true to be brave. You just run, OK? Just run away.

Forrest Gump

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Forrest Gump. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, The Tisch Company, 1994.

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You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to you or my boy to me?

Don Vito Corleone

The Godfather

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The Godfather. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Paramount Pictures/Alfran Productions, 1972.

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Do not let us speak of darker days. Let us speak rather of sterner days.

Winston Churchill

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Churchill, Winston. "Never Give In." 29 Oct. 1941, Harrow School, Harrow, England, UK. Speech.

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Churchill, Winston. "'Never give in!', 29 October 1941, Harrow School." Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches. A&C Black, 2013.

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We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

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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You will never be free until we are free.

Desmond Tutu

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Tutu, Desmond. "Bill Moyers Talks with Archbishop Desmond Tutu." Bill Moyers Journal. PBS, 27 Apr. 1999.

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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Mark Twain

The Mysterious Stranger

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Twain, Mark. The Mysterious Stranger. Harper & Brothers, 1916, ch. 10.

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Twain, Mark. "The Mysterious Stranger." Mark Twain: The Gilded Age and Later Novels, edited by Hamlin Hill. Library of America, 2002, ch. 10.

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I have to leave you now. I'm going to that corner there and turn. You must stay in the car and drive away. Promise not to watch me go beyond the corner. Just drive away and leave me as I leave you.

Roman Holiday

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Roman Holiday. Directed by William Wyler, Paramount Pictures, 1953.

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Shouldn't everybody care about everybody else?

On the Waterfront

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On the Waterfront. Directed by Elia Kazan, Horizon Pictures, 1954.

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We believe that out of the public school grows the greatness of a nation.

Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. "Public Education Association." 23 Nov. 1900, Berkeley Lyceum, New York, NY, USA.

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Scarlett! Look at me! I love you more than I've ever loved any woman and I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman.

Rhett Butler

Gone with the Wind

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Gone with the Wind. Directed by Victor Fleming. Selznick International Pictures/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

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As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

George Orwell

The Road to Wigan Pier

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Orwell, George. The Road to Wigan Pier. Victor Gollancz, 1937, pt. 2, ch. 11.

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Once you find the truth you ought to be prepared to stand on the street corner and use all your gifts to right the wrong.

Maya Angelou

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Angelou, Maya. "The West Interview: Maya Angelou." Interviewed by Sal Manna. San Jose Mercury News, 22 June 1986.

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The highest result of education is tolerance.

Helen Keller

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Keller, Helen. Optimism. T. Y. Crowell and Company, 1903, pt. 2.

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Keller, Helen. "Optimism." The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays. Dover Publications, 2010, pt. 2.

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Tell her that when you found me, I was here I was with the only brothers I had left and there's no way I was gonna desert them.

Saving Private Ryan

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Saving Private Ryan. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks Pictures/Mutual Film Company, 1998.

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With the right footwear one can rule the world.

Bette Midler

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Midler, Bette. "Ask Them Yourself: Question for Bette Midler." Trenton Evening Times, Section: Family Weekly (Newspaper Supplement), 13 Jan. 1980.

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I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write.

Toni Morrison

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Morrison, Toni. "The Language Must Not Sweat." Interviewed by Thomas LeClair. The New Republic, 21 Mar. 1981.

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