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What a glorious morning is this.

Samuel Adams

On hearing gunfire at Lexington, 19 April 1775.

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Adams, Samuel. Comment upon hearing the gunfire at the Battle of Lexington. 19 Apr. 1775, Lexington, MA, USA.

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Hughes, Langston. "Note In Music." Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, Jan. 1936.

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Hughes, Langston. "Note In Music." The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The Poems: 1921-1940, edited by Arnold Rampersad. Vol. 1, University of Missouri Press, 2001.

Make sure to allow people to take care of you.

Mickalene Thomas

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Thomas, Mickalene. Interviewed by Leigh Silver. Complex, 1 Oct. 2014, reprinted at https://www.complex.com/style/2014/10/interview-mickalene-thomas.

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Twain, Mark. "Refuge of the Derelicts." Fables of Man. University of California Press, 1972.

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Twain, Mark. "Refuge of the Derelicts." The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings. University of California Press, 2005.

There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

No Time like the Old Time

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. "No Time like the Old Time." The Atlantic Monthly. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, Oct. 1865, st. 1.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Fourth Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1945, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Fourth Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, January 20, 1945." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

Only the little people pay taxes.

Leona Helmsley

Quoted in The New York Times

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Helmsley, Leona. Quoted in "Maid Testifies Helmsley Denied Paying Taxes." Written by The Associated Press. The New York Times, 12 July 1989.

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Hamilton, Alexander. Debates of the Federal Convention. Constitutional Convention. 26 June 1787, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

The heart is like a viper, hissing, and spitting poison at God.

Jonathan Edwards

Men Naturally God's Enemies

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Edwards, Jonathan. "Men Naturally God's Enemies." Aug. 1736, United States, sect. 1.

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Edwards, Jonathan. "Men Naturally God's Enemies." The Works of Jonathan Edwards, edited by Edward Hickman. Vol. 2, Banner of Truth, 1995, sect. 1.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "The Path of the Law." Address to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts at the dedication of the new hall of the Boston University School of Law. 8 Jan. 1897, Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA, USA.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "The Path of the Law." The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, edited by Richard A. Posner. University of Chicago Press, 1997.

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Madison, James [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 51, The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments." New York Packet, 8 Feb. 1788.

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Madison, James. "No. 51: How to maintain: make the parts check each other. Also, a federal system divides power further.--Madison (or Hamilton)." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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Edison, Thomas A. Quoted in Thomas A. Edison: The Authentic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor, written by Francis Miller. Stanley Paul, 1932.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech to the 148th Ohio Regiment." 31 Aug. 1864, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech to 148th Ohio Regiment, Washington, D.C, August 31, 1864." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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Sherman, William Tecumseh. Telegram to General Henderson. 1884.

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Lincoln, Abraham. Speech at Springfield, IL. 4 Oct. 1854, Springfield, IL, USA.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 1.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 1.

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Adams, John. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1797, House Chamber, Congress Hall, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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Clinton, Hillary. Interview on 60 Minutes. CBS-TV, 26 Jan. 1992.

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Hamilton, Alexander [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 78: The Judiciary Department." The Federalist, A Collection of Essays." New York: J. and A. McLean, 1788.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "No. 78: Duration in office: good behavior. Why needed.--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.