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Obama, Barack. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 2009, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Whitman, Walt. "My Captain." The Saturday Press, 4 Nov. 1865.

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Whitman, Walt. "O Captain! My Captain!" Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, I. 1.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Archibald Stuart. 23 Dec. 1791.

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Brand, Stewart. "Whole Earth Epilog." Whole Earth Catalog, Oct. 1974.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1861, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugral Address, March 4, 1861." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 2018.

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Montaigne; or, the Skeptic

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Montaigne; or, the Skeptic." Representative Men. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1850.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Montaigne; or, the Skeptic (1850)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Cormac McCarthy

All the Pretty Horses

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McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses. Alfred A. Knopf, 1992, ch. 2.

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Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Bring the Pain. HBO, 1 June 1996.

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Kennedy, John F. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1961, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Chappelle, Dave. Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly. HBO, 26 July 2000.

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Trump, Donald. Interview. Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2018.

Fight the power.

Public Enemy

Fight the Power

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"Fight the Power." Do the Right Thing. Directed by Spike Lee, performed by Public Enemy. 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 1989.

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Keller, Helen. Optimism. T. Y. Crowell and Company, 1903, pt. 1.

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Keller, Helen. "Optimism." The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays. Dover Publications, 2010, pt. 1.

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Trump, Donald. Remarks at White House Coronavirus Task Force press briefing. 13 Apr. 2020, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

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Trump, Donald. Quoted in Checks in the Balance: Legislative Capacity and the Dynamics of Executive Power, written by Alexander Bolton and Sharece Thrower. Princeton University Press, 2021, ch. 1.

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Trump, Donald. Remarks at African-American History Month reception. African-American History Month reception. 27 Feb. 2020, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

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Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Bring the Pain. HBO, 1 June 1996.

I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me?

Beck

Loser

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Beck and Carl Stephenson. Loser. Performed by Beck. Mellow Gold. Bong Load Records, 1993.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850, ch. 22.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, edited by Brian Harding. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 22.

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Dickinson, Emily. "The May-Wine." Springfield Daily Republican, 4 May 1861, I. 5.

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Dickinson, Emily. "I taste a liquor never brewed." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 5.

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Eliot, T. S. “Burnt Norton.” Collected Poems 1909–1935. Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1936, pt. 5.