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Fight the power.

Public Enemy

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Fight the Power

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"Fight the Power." Do the Right Thing. Directed by Spike Lee, performed by Public Enemy. 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 1989.

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Helen Keller

Optimism

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Keller, Helen. Optimism. T. Y. Crowell and Company, 1903, pt. 1.

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Keller, Helen. "Optimism." The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays. Dover Publications, 2010, pt. 1.

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When we abolish the slavery of half of humanity, together with the whole system of hypocrisy that it implies, then the "division" of humanity will reveal its genuine significance and the human couple will find its true form.

Simone de Beauvoir

The Second Sex

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De Beauvoir, Simone. Le Deuxième Sexe [The Second Sex]. Vol. 2, Gallimard, 1949.

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De Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex, translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Vintage, 2011.

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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophische Untersuchungen [Philosophical Investigations]. Suhrkamp, 1953, pt. 2.

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, et. al., edited by P. M. S. Hacker and Joachim Schulte. Wiley Blackwell, 2009, pt. 2.

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We're on a mission from God.

Dan Aykroyd

The Blues Brothers

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The Blues Brothers. Directed by John Landis, Universal Pictures, 1980.

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God loves me, and I have an opportunity to love others as he loves me, not in big things, but in small things with great love.

Mother Teresa

Nobel Prize Lecture

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Mother Teresa. Nobel Peace Prize lecture. Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. 10 Dec. 1979, Oslo, Norway.

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We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty.

Benito Mussolini

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Mussolini, Benito. "Forza e consenso [Strength and Consent]." Da Gerarchia. Mar. 1923.

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Casanova, Giacomo. History of My Life, vols. 1-2, translated by William Trask. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, preface.

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War is to man as motherhood is to woman.

Benito Mussolini

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Mussolini, Benito. Speech in Italy. 26 May 1934, Chamber of Deputies, Palazzo Montecitorio, Rome, Italy.

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You could get rid of all the crack, all the herb, all the blow, you know what would happen? People would just think of new ways of getting high. That's right, guys would go in their basement and become scientists, like "Yo check this out, check this out. You know, if you get a baby's bottle, right, fill it up with a little gasoline and a dead lima bean and suck it, you'll be fucked up!"

Chris Rock

Bring the Pain

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Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Bring the Pain. HBO, 1 June 1996.

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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. "What I Believe. Living Philosophies 13." Forum and Century, Oct. 1930, vol. 84, issue 4, pp. 193-194.

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I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me?

Beck

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Loser

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Beck and Carl Stephenson. Loser. Performed by Beck. Mellow Gold. Bong Load Records, 1993.

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In our village, folk say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. "Один день Ивана Денисовича [One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]." Novy Mir, Nov. 1962.

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Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
Will not stay still.

T.S. Eliot

Burnt Norton

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Eliot, T. S. “Burnt Norton.” Collected Poems 1909–1935. Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1936, pt. 5.

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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Albert Camus

The Fall

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Camus, Albert. La Chute [The Fall]. Editions Gallimard, 1956.

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

Thornton Wilder

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Wilder, Thornton. The Matchmaker. 4 Nov. 1954, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 2.

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Wilder, Thornton. "The Matchmaker." Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2020, act 2.

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Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Witold von Hulewicz. 13 Nov. 1925.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910-1926, translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

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