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May the odds be ever in your favor!

Suzanne Collins

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Collins, Suzanne. The Hunger Games. Scholastic Press, 2008, ch. 1.

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Reagan, Ronald. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1981, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Truth that comes from the gut, not books.

Stephen Colbert

The definition of "truthiness".

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"Truthiness." The Colbert Report, created by Stephen Colbert, season 1, episode 1, Spartina Productions and Busboy Productions and Comedy Partners, 2005.

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Cash, June Carter and Merle Kilgore. "Ring of Fire." Performed by Johnny Cash. Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash. Columbia Nashville, 1963.

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Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again). Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975, ch. 6.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Rainy Day." Ballads and Other Poems. Cambridge: John Owen, 1842, I. 14.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Rainy Day." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems & Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, I. 14.

Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!

James Fenimore Cooper

The Last of the Mohicans

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Cooper, James Fenimore. The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826, ch. 25.

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Cooper, James Fenimore. "The Last of the Mohicans." James Fenimore Cooper: The Leatherstocking Tales. Vol. 1, Library of America, 1985, ch. 25.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1933, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "First Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, March 4, 1933." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

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Twain, Mark. "The Church Edifice." Christian Science. Harper & Brothers, 1907.

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Franklin, Benjamin. Letter to Robert Morris. 25 Dec. 1783.

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Franklin, Benjamin."Paris, 1776-1785: Robert Morris, December 26, 1783." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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

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Watterson, Bill. Calvin and Hobbes. Comic Strip. 8 Nov. 1989.

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Adams, John. Letter to Abigail Adams. 12 May 1780.

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John Adams to Abigail Adams, 12 May 1780,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-03-02-0258.

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel.

Nine Inch Nails

Hurt

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Reznor, Trent. "Hurt." Performed by Nine Inch Nails. The Downward Spiral. Nothing Records/Interscope Records, 1994.

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Lynch, Marshawn. Interview with Deion Sanders. CBS, 28 Jan. 2014.

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Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 35.

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Hedberg, Mitch. Strategic Grill Locations. 7 Sept. 1999, The Laff Stop Comedy Club, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Pocket Books, 1999.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech in United States House of Representatives: The War with Mexico." 12 Jan. 1848, US House of Representatives, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech in the U.S. House of Representatives on the War with Mexico, January 12, 1848." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Historic Notes on Life and Letters in Massachusetts." Atlantic Monthly. Boston, Oct. 1883.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Historic Notes of Life and Letters in New England." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.