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Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. Simon & Schuster, 1961, ch. 31.

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Chester W. Nimitz

Describing the battle of Iwo Jima.

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Nimitz, Chester W. Statement after the Battle of Iwo Jima. c. 1945, Iwo Jima, Tokyo, Japan.

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LaFollette, Suzanne. Concerning Women. Albert & Charles Boni, 1926, ch. 1.

People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.

Helen Prejean

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Describing her opposition to the death penalty.

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Prejean, Helen. Quoted in "Sister Sympathy." Written by Sue Helpren. The New York Times Magazine, 9 May 1993.

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Faulkner, William. Speech at the Nobel Banquet. Nobel Banquet. 10 Dec. 1950, City Hall, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Truman, Harry S. Statement announcing recognition of the State of Israel. 14 May 1948, Washington, DC, USA.

Life Begins at Forty.

Walter B. Pitkin

Title of book.

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Pitkin, Walter B. Life Begins at Forty. Whittlesey House McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1932.

Oops.

Rick Perry

Remark after failing to recall the third federal agency he had just said he would eliminate if elected President.

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Perry, Rick. Spoken at republican presidential campaign debate. Republican presidential campaign debate. 9 Nov. 2011, Rochester, MI, USA.

That's the way the ball bounces.

George Mandel

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Mandel, George. Flee the Angry Strangers. Bobbs-Merrill, 1952.

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Sherman, William Tecumseh. Letter to Mayor James M. Calhoun and E. E. Rawson and S. C. Wells. 12 Sept. 1864.

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Sherman, William Tecumseh. Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865. University of North Carolina Press, 1999, ch. 12.

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Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Directed by Elia Kazan. Performed by Barbara Bel Geddes and Burl Ives and Ben Gazzara. 24 Mar. 1955, Morosco Theatre, New York City, New York, USA, act 2.

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Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New Directions, 2004, act 2.

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McCullers, Carson. "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." Harper's Bazaar, 1943.

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McCullers, Carson. "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe and Other Stories. Mariner Books, 2005.

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Williams, Tennessee. "The Timeless World of a Play." The New York Times, 14 Mar. 1951.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Village Blacksmith." The Knickerbocker. New York City: Lewis Gaylord Clark, Nov. 1840, I. 9.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Village Blacksmith." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, I. 9.

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Rumsfeld, Donald. Quoted in Interavia Business & Technology. 1 Jan. 2001.

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Friedman, Milton. Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.

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Hicks, Bill. Relentless. July 1991, Centaur Theatre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Norquist, Grover. Interviewed by Mara Liasson. NPR's Morning Edition. 25 May 2001.

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

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Lippmann, Walter. "What Modern Liberty Means." Liberty and the News. Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1919.