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As far as "detours" are concerned, they're always more interesting than the main road.

Mary Kelly

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Kelly, Mary. Mary Kelly. Phaidon Press, 1997. Originally stated in an interview with Douglas Crimp. c. 1990.

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The secular State is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

Christopher Hitchens

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Hitchens, Christopher: "Ireland: 'We Ourselves': Suffering, Faith and Redemption." Critical Quarterly, Spring 1998.

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Hitchens, Christopher. "Ireland." Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere. Verso, 2000, pt. 1.

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If there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories, and crashes through barriers painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh, well, there it is.

Jurassic Park

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Jurassic Park. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment, 1993.

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Love is not just a feeling; it's a practice, something you practice whether you feel like it or not.

Wendell Berry

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Berry, Wendell. Quoted in "Interview with Wendell Berry." Interviewed by Vince Pennington. The Kentucky Review, Spring 1996.

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Oh yeah. Lotta pressure. You gotta rise above it. You gotta harness in the good energy, block out the bad. Harness. Energy. Block. Bad. Feel the flow Happy. Feel it. It's circular. It's like a carousel. You pay the quarter, you get on the horse, it goes up and down, and around. It's circular. Circle, with the music, the flow. All good things.

Happy Gilmore

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

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No, not again. I...why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam? I swear to God, one of these days, I just kick this piece of shit out the window!

Office Space

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Office Space. Directed by Mike Judge, Judgemental Films, 1999.

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She was the People's Princess, and that is how she will stay... In our hearts and in our memories forever.

Tony Blair

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Blair, Tony. Press Release. Associated Press, 31 Aug. 1997.

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We are not the masters. The people are the masters. We are the servants of the people... What the electorate gives, the electorate can take away.

Tony Blair

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Blair, Tony. Addressing Labour MPs on the first day of the new Parliment. 7 May 1977, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?

Alan Greenspan

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Greenspan, Alan. "The Challenge of Central Banking in a Democratic Society." The Annual Dinner and Francis Boyer Lecture of The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. 5 Dec. 1996, Washington, DC, USA.

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It is a terrible shame for me-I came back, still alive, without having won the war.

Shoichi Yokoi

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On returning to Japan after surviving for 28 years in the jungles of Guam before surrendering to the Americans in 1972.

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Yokoi, Shoichi. Quoted in "Obituary: Shoichi Yokoi." Written by James Kirkup. The Independent, 25 Sept. 1997.

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I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not.

The Green Mile

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The Green Mile. Directed by Frank Darabont, Castle Rock Entertainment/Darkwoods Productions, 1999.

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Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Barbara Ehrenreich

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Ehrenreich, Barbara. "Family Values." The Worst Years of Our Lives: Irreverent Notes from a Decade of Greed. HarperCollins, 1991.

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I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm president of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!

George H.W. Bush

Press Conference, March 22, 1990

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Bush, George H. W. News conference at the White House. 22 Mar. 1990, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

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You have a problem with authority, Mr. Anderson. You believe that you are special, that somehow the rules do not apply to you. Obviously, you are mistaken.

The Matrix

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The Matrix. Directed by The Wachowskis. Warner Bros./Village Roadshow Pictures/Groucho II Film Partnership/Silver Pictures, 1999.

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What is it about people that since the dawn of time we've wanted to mark our presence so that other people will see it?

Chuck Close

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Close, Chuck. Quoted in Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre, and Elsewhere. Random House, 1998. Originally spoken during an interview with Michael Kimmelman, 1998.

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