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Everything that man esteems
Endures a moment or a day.
Love's pleasure drives his love away,
The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

W.B. Yeats

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Yeats, William Butler. "Two Songs From a Play." The Tower. Macmillan & Company, 1928.

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Yeats, William Butler. "Two Songs From a Play." The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Wordsworth Editions, 2000.

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I never liked seein' strangers, guess it's cause no stranger ever good news to me.

Red River

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Red River. Directed by Howard Hawks, Monterey Productions, 1948.

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If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

Robert Graves

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Graves, Robert. Speech in London. 6 Dec. 1963, London School of Economics, London, England, UK.

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Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it... It leaves everything as it is.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophische Untersuchungen [Philosophical Investigations]. Suhrkamp, 1953, pt. 1.

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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. 1.

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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Dr. Seuss

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

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Seuss, Dr. Oh, the Places You'll Go! Random House, 1990.

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You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.

César Chávez

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Chávez, César. "What the Future Holds." Commonwealth Club meeting. 9 Nov. 1984, San Francisco, CA, USA.

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Chávez, César. "Address to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, November 9, 1984." The Words of Cesar Chavez. Texas A&M University Press, 2002.

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A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The Revolt of the Masses

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Ortega y Gasset, Jose. La Rebelion de las Masas [The Revolt of the Masses.] El Sol, 1929, serial.

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Ortega y Gasset, Jose. The Revolt of the Masses. W. W. Norton & Company, 1994, ch. 10.

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Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

Judith Butler

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Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge, 1990, ch. 3, pt. 4.

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In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ! It is he who commands you! It is he who flung you from the gates of Heaven to the depths of Hell!

The Exorcist

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The Exorcist. Directed by William Friedkin, Hoya Productions, 1973.

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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

The Way of All Flesh

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Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Grant Richards, 1903, ch. 19.

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Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Everyman's Library, 1993, ch. 19.

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I'm gonna give you to the count of 10, to get your ugly, yella, no-good keister off my property, before I pump your guts full of lead! 1...2...10!

Home Alone

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Home Alone. Directed by Chris Columbus, Hughes Entertainment , 1990.

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All women are stimulated by the news that any wife has left any husband.

Anthony Powell

The Acceptance World

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Powell, Anthony. A Dance to the Music of Time: The Acceptance World. Vol. 3, London: Heinemann, 1955, ch. 4.

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I like to be in America,
OK by me in America,
Everything free in America.

West Side Story

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West Side Story. Directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, Seven Arts Productions/The Mirisch Company, 1961.

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Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Charlie Parker

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Parker, Charlie. Quoted in Hear Me Talkin' to Ya. Written by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff. Rinehart & Company, 1955.

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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

G.K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy

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Chesterton, G.K. "Orthodoxy." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 1, Ignatius Press, 1986, ch. 4. Originally published by John Lane Co., 1908.

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