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We have to be people who set each other free.

Harry Hay

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Hay, Harry, Jr. "Meet Pioneer of Gay Rights, Harry Hay." Interviewed by Anne-Marie Cusac. The Progressive, Sept. 1998.

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Steinbeck, John. Letter to Adlai Stevenson. 5 Nov. 1959.

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London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." The Youth's Companion, 29 May 1902.

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London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories. Signet, 2009.

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Murrow, Edward R. Broadcast report on Buchenwald concentration camp. 15 Apr. 1945, London, England, UK. Radio broadcast.

Luck, if you will, is something you work for, and the harder you work the more luck you have.

Esther Eberstadt Brooke

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Brooke, Esther Eberstadt. Career Clinic: The Answer to Your Job Problem. Farrar & Rinehart, 1940, pt. 3, ch. 2.

Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure.

Charlie Kaufman

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Kaufman, Charlie. "Screenwriters' Lecture: Charlie Kaufman." Screenwriters' Lecture Series. 30 Sept. 2011, British Film Institute, London, England, UK.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Lecture 1: Early Forms of Liability." Lowell Lectures. 23 Nov. 1880, Lowell Institute, Lowell, MA, USA.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. The Common Law. Belknap Press, 2009, lecture 1.

These be
Three silent things:
The falling snow... The hour
Before the dawn... The mouth of one
Just dead.

Adelaide Crapsey

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Crapsey, Adelaide. "Triad." Verse. Manas Press, 1915.

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Crapsey, Adelaide. "Triad." Complete Poems and Collected Letters of Adelaide Crapsey, edited by Susan S. Smith. State University of New York Press, 2016.

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Hedberg, Mitch. Comedy Central Presents. Comedy Central, 5 Jan. 1999.

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Thompson, Hunter S. “Security.” The Spectator, 1951.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

George Shultz

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Shultz, George. "Moral Principles and Strategic Interests: The Worldwide Movement Toward Democracy." Landon Lecture Series. 14 Apr. 1986, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.

If it's legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.

Todd Akin

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Akin, Todd. Interviewed by Charles Jaco. KTVI-TV, 19 Aug. 2012.

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Bethune, Mary McLeod. "Certain Unalienable Rights." What the Negro Wants, edited by Rayford Logan. University of North Carolina Press, 1944.

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Shields, Carol. "An Interview with Carol Shields from Penguin.com," author's website, n.d., http://www.carol-shields.com/larryspartyinterview.pdf.

Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck.

Robert Shapiro

On the O.J. Simpson defense team's strategy.

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Shapiro, Robert. Interviewed by Barbara Walters. ABC News, 3. Oct. 1995.

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Wallace, David Foster. Commencement address at Kenyon College. Commencement. 21 May 2005, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, USA.

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Wallace, David Foster. This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion about Living a Compassionate Life. Little, Brown and Company, 2009.

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.

Richard Bach

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

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Bach, Richard. Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The Macmillan Company, 1970, pt. 3.

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Lamott, Anne. Facebook post. 8 Apr. 2015.

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Cather, Willa. "The Bohemian Girl." McClure's Magazine, Aug. 1912.

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Cather, Willa. "The Bohemian Girl." The Bohemian Girl: Stories. Harper Perennial, 2009.