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I've never done a single thing I've wanted to in my whole life! I don't know 's I've accomplished anything except just get along.

Sinclair Lewis

Babbitt

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Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1922, ch. 34.

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Lewis, Sinclair. Babbitt, edited by Gordon Hutner. Oxford University Press, 2010, ch. 34.

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The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.

George Orwell

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Orwell, George. “Freedom of the Park.” Tribune, 7 Dec. 1945.

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Orwell, George. "Freedom of the Park." 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. 11.

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In a way, all of us has an El Guapo to face someday. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a lack of education might be their El Guapo. For us, El Guapo is a big, dangerous guy who wants to kill us. But as sure as my name is Lucky Day, the people of Santa Poco can conquer their own personal El Guapo, who also happens to be the actual El Guapo!

Three Amigos!

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Three Amigos. Directed by John Landis, Orion Pictures, 1986.

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It's like people only do these things because they can get paid. And that's just really sad.

Garth Algar

Wayne's World

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

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We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented. It's as simple as that.

The Truman Show

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The Truman Show. Directed by Peter Weir, Scott Rudin Productions, 1998.

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What is our aim?... Victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror; victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Winston Churchill

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Churchill, Winston. "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat." House of Commons meeting. 13 May 1940, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Address.

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Churchill, Winston. "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.

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The hard part about playing chicken is knowing when to flinch.

The Hunt for Red October

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The Hunt for Red October. Directed by John McTiernan, Mac Neufeld Productions/Nina Saxon Film Design, 1990.

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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot

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Beckett, Samuel. En attendant Godot. Directed by Roger Blin. 5 Jan. 1953, Théâtre de Babylone, Paris, France.

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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

George Bernard Shaw

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Shaw, George Bernard. Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress. 21 Jan. 1918, Coliseum Theatre, London, England, UK.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress." Selected Short Plays, edited by Dan H. Laurence. Penguin, 1988.

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Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.

Winston Churchill

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Churchill, Winston. Report on the war. House of Commons meeting. 8 Oct. 1940, London, England, UK. Address.

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Churchill, Winston. "'We can take it!' 8 October 1940, House of Commons." Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches. Hyperion, 2005.

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The law has little to say on the subject of things left undone.

Vertigo

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Vertigo. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, 1958.

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Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Bertrand Russell

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Russell, Bertrand. The Conquest of Happiness. Liveright, 1930, ch. 12.

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We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.

John F. Kennedy

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Kennedy, John F. Address on nation's space effort. 12 Sept. 1962, Rice University Stadium, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA.

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I'll tell you a big secret mon cher. Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

Albert Camus

The Fall

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

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I don't know, but some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?

The Scarecrow

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The Wizard of Oz

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The Wizard of Oz. Directed by Victor Fleming. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

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Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it.

American History X

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American History X. Directed by Tony Kaye, New Line Cinemas/The Turman-Morrissey Company, 1998.

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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Edward Abbey

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Abbey, Edward. "Arizona - How Big is Big Enough?" One Life at a Time, Please. Henry Holt and Company, 1988.

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We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying.

D.H. Lawrence

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Lawrence, D.H. "The Ship of Death." Last Poems, edited by Richard Aldington and Giuseppe Orioli. The Viking Press, 1932, stanza 6.

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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Proust, Marcel. Sodom and Gomorrah. Paris: Grasset/Gallimard, 1921-1922.

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Proust, Marcel. Sodom and Gomorrah, translated by John Sturrock. Penguin Classics, 2005.

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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

Samuel Beckett

Murphy

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Beckett, Samuel. Murphy. Routledge, 1938, ch. 1.

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