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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 21. Originally from Notebook, 2 Feb. 1894.

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Lincoln, Abraham. Second Annual Message to Congress. 1 Dec. 1862, US Congress, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losin' my religion.

R.E.M.

Losing My Religion

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R.E.M. "Losing My Religion." Out of Time. Warner Records, 1991.

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Dickinson, Emily. "Winter." Poems. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890, I. 1.

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Dickinson, Emily. "There's a certain Slant of light." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

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Hamilton, Alexander. Letter to Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens. 12 Sept. 1780.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "From Alexander Hamilton to Lieutenant Colonel John Laurens, [12 September 1780]." Founders Online, National Archives, founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-02-02-0851.

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Hamilton, Alexander [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 11: The Utility of the Union in Respect to Commercial Relations and a Navy." Independent Journal, 23 Nov. 1787.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "No. 10: Utility of union regarding commerce.--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent Texas and live in Hell.

Philip Henry Sheridan

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Sheridan, Philip Henry. Quoted in The Pittsburgh Gazette. Mar. 1866.

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Santayana, George. "Tipperary." Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies. Charles Scribner's Sons/Constable and Co., 1922.

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Hemingway, Ernest. "Old Newsman Writes: A Letter from Cuba." Esquire Magazine, 1 Dec. 1934.

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Hemingway, Ernest. "Old Newsman Writes: A Letter from Cuba." By-line Ernest Hemingway, edited by William White. Scribner, 2003.

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Campaign address. 2 Oct. 1932, Detroit, MI, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Address to the Delegates of the American Youth Congress. 10 Feb. 1940, Washington, DC, USA.

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

Phyllis Diller

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Diller, Phyllis. Phyllis Diller's Household Hints. Doubleday, 1966.

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Roosevelt, Eleanor. "Intolerance." Cosmopolitan, Feb. 1940.

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Kennedy, John F. News conference about inequality in military service. 21 Mar. 1962, Washington, DC, USA.

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Bush, George H. W. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1989, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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

Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?

Donald Trump

Reported comment to senators at White House meeting on immigration in January of 2018.

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Trump, Donald. Quoted in Washington Post. 12 Jan. 2018.

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Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. Harper & Row, 1963.

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Reagan, Ronald. Spoken during presidential campaign debate. Campaign debate. 28 Oct. 1980, Music Hall, Cleveland, OH, USA.

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Quayle, Dan. Speech to Phoenix Republican Forum. 23 Mar. 1990, Phoenix, AZ, USA.