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

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Yeats, W. B. "A Song." The Wild Swans at Coole. Macmillan, 1919.

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Yeats, W. B. "A Song." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Baldwin, James. "Fifth Avenue, Uptown; A Letter from Harlem." Esquire, July 1960.

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 16.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 16.

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Plath, Sylvia [published as Victoria Lucas]. The Bell Jar. William Heinemann, 1963.

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Reagan, Ronald. Interview. Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 1970.

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Carson, Rachel. The Sea Around Us. Oxford University Press, 1951, pt. 3.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. Speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. 10 Dec. 1964, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

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Wolfe, Tom. The Bonfire of the Vanities. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1987.

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Wayne's World. Directed by Penelope Spheeris, Paramount Pictures, 1992.

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Reagan, Ronald. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1981, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Luxemburg, Rosa. "The Beginning." Die Rote Fahne [The Red Flag], 18 Nov. 1918.

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Luxemburg, Rosa. "The Beginning." The Rosa Luxemburg Reader. New York University Press, 2004.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1937, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Second Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, January 20, 1937." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

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Hemingway, Ernest. Remark to Aaron Hotchner. c. 1950.

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Hemingway, Ernest. Quoted in A Moveable Feast. Scribners, 2010, foreword.

Wherever there's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there.

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The Grapes of Wrath

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The Grapes of Wrath. Directed by John Ford. 20th Century Fox, 1940.

Will you marry me? Did he leave you any money? Answer the second question first.

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Duck Soup. Directed by Leo McCarey. Paramount Pictures Studio, 1933.

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The Notorious B.I.G. "Juicy." Ready to Die. Bad Boy Records/Arista Records, 1994.

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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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Cather, Willa, My Ántonia. Houghton Mifflin, 1918, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Twain, Mark. "Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany." 7 Oct. 1901, New York City, NY, USA.

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Twain, Mark. "Edmund Burke on Croker and Tammany." Mark Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays 1891-1910, edited by Louis J. Budd. Library of America, 1992.