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Roosevelt, Eleanor. This Is My Story. Harper & Brothers, 1937.

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The Princess Bride. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Communications/Buttercup Films/The Princess Bride Ltd., 1987.

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Washington, Booker T. "Up from Slavery." The Outlook, 1900.

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Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery. Dover Publications, 1995.

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Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." Horizon, Apr. 1946, vol. 13, issue 76, pp. 252-265.

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Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 4: In Front of Your Nose 1945-1950, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 1999, no. 38.

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New Jack City. Directed by Mario Van Peebles, The Jackson/McHenry Company/Jacmac Films, 1991.

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Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1960, ch. 11.

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

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Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale. McClelland and Stewart/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1985, ch. 21.

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Glengarry Glen Ross. Directed by James Foley, Zupnik Enterprises, 1992.

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Jagger, Mick and Keith Richards. "Wild Horses." Performed by The Flying Burrito Brothers. Burrito Deluxe. A&M Records, 1970.

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When We Were Kings. Directed by Leon Gast. Performed by Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. Gramercy Pictures, Jan. 1996. Originally a press conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. 17 Sept. 1974, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, NY, USA.

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Point Break. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Johnny Utah Productions/Largo Entertainment, 1991.

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Rushdie, Salman. "The Empire Writes Back with a Vengeance." Times, 3 July 1982.

Father, father
We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate.

Marvin Gaye

What's Going On

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Gaye, Marvin. "What's Going On." Written by Al Cleveland and Renaldo Benson and Marvin Gaye. What's Going On. Tamla Records, 1971.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1933, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "First Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, March 4, 1933." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

The Dude abides.

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The Big Lebowski

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The Big Lebowski. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Working Title Films, 1998.

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Happy Gilmore. Directed by Dennis Dugan, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment/Robert Simonds Productions, 1996.

No matter how a man alone ain't got no bloody fucking chance.

Ernest Hemingway

To Have and Have Not

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Hemingway, Ernest. To Have and Have Not. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937, ch. 23.

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White Men Can't Jump. Directed by Ron Shelton, 20th Century Studios, 1992.

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Camus, Albert. Le Mythe de Sisyphe [The Myth of Sisyphus]. Éditions Gallimard, 1942.