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Aladdin. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Feature Animation, 1992.

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Stand By Me. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Productions, 1986.

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Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia. Secker and Warburg, 1938, ch. 5.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Miller

Tropic of Cancer

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Miller, Henry. Tropic of Cancer. Obelisk Press, 1934.

Tuesday has no feel. Monday has a feel, Friday has a feel, Sunday has a feel.

Newman

Seinfeld

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"The Sniffing Accountant." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, directed by Tom Cherones, season 5, episode 4, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1993.

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Churchill, Winston. Note to his personal secretary John Colville. 21 June 1941.

The world is what it is.

V.S. Naipaul

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Naipaul, V. S. A Bend in the River. Alfred A Knopf, 1979, pt. 1.

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Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 17.

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Yeats, William Butler. "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz." The Winding Stair and Other Poems. The Macmillan Company, 1933, I. 24.

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Yeats, William Butler. "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 24.

There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

Leonard Cohen

Anthem

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Cohen, Leonard. "Anthem." The Future. Columbia Records, 1992.

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go
I wanna be sedated
Nothing to do, nowhere to go
I wanna be sedated.

Ramones

I Wanna Be Sedated

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Ramone, Joey and Dee Dee Ramone and Johnny Ramone. "I Wanna Be Sedated." Performed by Ramones. Road to Ruin. Sire Records, 1978.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, pt. 5, ch. 3.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers, edited by Sharon O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, pt. 5, ch. 3.

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Wall Street. Directed by Oliver Stone, American Entertainment Partners/American Films, 1987.

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Thelma & Louise. Directed by Ridley Scott, Pathé Entertainment/Percy Main Productions/Star Partners III Ltd., 1991.

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Bush, George H. W. Decision to send U.S. troops to defend Saudi Arabia against Iraqi troops. 8 Aug. 1990, Washington, DC, USA.

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Wilson, Woodrow. Speech in Des Moines. 1 Feb. 1916, Des Moines Coliseum, Des Moines, IA, USA.

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

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Orwell, George. "The Sporting Spirit." Tribune (London), 14 Dec. 1945.

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Orwell, George. "The Sporting Spirit." 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. 12.

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

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Sagan, Carl. Cosmos. Random House, 1980, ch. 2.