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I'm the decider.

George W. Bush

Press Conference, April 18, 2006

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Bush, George W. Remarks to press. 18 Apr. 2006, Rose Garden, The White House, Washington, DC, USA. Press conference.

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If that's true, if you don't know who I am, then maybe your best course would be to tread lightly.

Walter White

Breaking Bad

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"Blood Money." Breaking Bad, written by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, directed by Bryan Cranston, season 5, episode 9, High Bridge Productions and Gran Via Productions, 2013.

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Cause I don't care too much for money
Money can't buy me love.

The Beatles

Can't Buy Me Love

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Lennon, John and Paul McCartney. "Can't Buy Me Love." Performed by The Beatles. A Hard Day's Night. Parlophone/Capitol, 1964.

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O sleep, O gentle sleep,
Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down
And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 2

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Shakespeare, William. Henry IV, Part 2. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1597, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Second Part of Henry the Fourth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 1.

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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

Ulysses S. Grant

First Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant

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Grant, Ulysses S. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1869, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 33. Originally from Notebook, 23 May 1903.

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Rather be dead than cool.

Nirvana

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Stay Away

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Nirvana. "Stay Away." Nevermind. DGC, 1991.

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I've loved you since I was eleven, and the shit won't go away.

Love and Basketball

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Love and Basketball. Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, 2000.

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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance

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Wilde, Oscar. A Woman of No Importance. 1893, Haymarket Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2.

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Wilde, Oscar. "A Woman of No Importance." The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 2.

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On any given Sunday you're either gonna win or you're gonna lose.

Any Given Sunday

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Any Given Sunday. Directed by Oliver Stone, The Donners' Company/Ixtlan Productions, 1999.

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We boil at different degrees.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Eloquence

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Eloquence." Society and Solitude. New York City: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Eloquence." The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and Solitude, edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Douglas Emory Wilson. Vol. 7, Belknap Press, 2008.

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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1960, ch. 3.

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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "5 Oct. 1830." Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. London: John Murray, 1835.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge (2nd ed 1836)." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 14: Table Talk, edited by Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer. Princeton University Press, 2019.

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All the lonely people,
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people,
Where do they all belong?

The Beatles

Eleanor Rigby

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Lennon, John and Paul McCartney. "Eleanor Rigby." Performed by The Beatles. Revolver. Parlophone Records/Capitol Records, 1966.

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Toscanini once recorded a piece sixty five times. You know what he said when he finished? It could be better.

The Tree of Life

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The Tree of Life. Directed by Terrence Malick. River Road Entertainment/Plan B Entertainment, 2011.

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Bye, Felisha.

Friday

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Friday. Directed by F. Gary Gray, New Line Productions/Ghetto Bird Productions, 1995.

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If it wasn't for bad luck
You know, I wouldn't have no luck at all

Albert King

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Born Under a Bad Sign

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Bell, William. "Born Under a Bad Sign." Composed by Booker T. Jones. Performed by Albert King. Born Under a Bad Sign. Stax Records, 1967.

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The best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

Booker T. Washington

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Washington, Booker T. The Story of My Life and Work. W. H. Ferguson Co., 1900.

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All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Henry Jekyll's Full Statement of the Case." Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1886.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 10.

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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare

As You Like It

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Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 5, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 1.

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