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No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

Ulysses S. Grant

Note sent to a Confederate general during the Civil War.

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Grant, Ulysses Simpson. Note to General S. B. Buckner. 16 Feb. 1862.

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Grant, Ulysses Simpson. Quoted in The Generals' Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today, written by Stephen Cushman. UNC Press Books, 2021.

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To see your enemy and know him is part of the complete education of man.

Marcus Garvey

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Garvey, Marcus. Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. Vol. 1, The Universal Publishing House, 1923, ch. 2.

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That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

Willa Cather

My Antonia

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Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. Houghton Mifflin, 1918, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. W. W. Norton & Co., 2015, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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I say hurl. If you blow chunks and she comes back, she's yours. But if you spew and she bolts, it was never meant to be.

Wayne Campbell

Wayne's World

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Wayne's World. Directed by Penelope Spheeris, Paramount Pictures, 1992.

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I went to the crossroad,
fell down on my knees.
Asked the Lord above,
"Have mercy, save poor Bob if you please."

Robert Johnson

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Cross Road Blues

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Johnson, Robert. Cross Road Blues. Vocalion Records, 1937.

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Fuck! Even in the future nothing works.

Spaceballs

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Spaceballs. Directed by Mel Brooks, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Brooksfilms/Industrial Light & Magic, 1987

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Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.

John Stuart Mill

The Subjection of Women

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Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 4.

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Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 4.

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Twas only fear first in the world made gods.

Ben Jonson

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Jonson, Ben. Sejanus His Fall. King's Men, 1603, at court, London, England, UK, act 2.

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Jonson, Ben. "Sejanus." Ben Jonson: Five Plays, edited by G. A. Wilkes. Oxford University Press, 2009, act 2.

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We have an old saying in Delta: don't get mad, get even.

Animal House

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Animal House. Directed by John Landis, Universal Pictures, 1978.

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We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down, and worry about our place in the dirt.

Interstellar

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Interstellar. Directed by Christopher Nolan, Legendary Pictures/Syncopy/Lynda Obst Productions, 2014.

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.

James Baldwin

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Baldwin, James. "Fifth Avenue, Uptown; A Letter from Harlem." Esquire, July 1960.

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He was not born to shame.
Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit.

William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 3, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

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Always look on the bright side of life.

Monty Python's Life of Brian

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Monty Python's Life of Brian. Directed by Terry Jones, Handmade Films/Python (Monty) Pictures, 1979.

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This will not stand. This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait.

George H.W. Bush

Press Conference, August 5, 1990

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On Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.

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Bush, George H. W. Remark during news conference about the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. 5 Aug. 1990, South Lawn of the White House, Washington, DC, USA.

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Remember those posters that said, 'Today is the first day of the rest of your life'? Well, that's true of every day except one, the day you die.

American Beauty

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American Beauty. Directed by Sam Mendes, Jinks/Cohen Company, 1999.

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Ooh, child, things are gonna get easier
Ooh child, things'll get brighter.

The Five Stairsteps

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Ooh Child (song)

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Vincent, Stan. "O-o-h Child." Performed by Five Stairsteps. Stairsteps. Buddah Records, 1970.

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My soul is an enchanted boat,
Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float
Upon the silver waves of thy sweet singing.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Prometheus Unbound

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Prometheus Unbound." Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts with Other Poems. London: Charles and James Ollier, 1820, act 2, sc. 5.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Prometheus Unbound." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, act 2, sc. 5.

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We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich.

Ronald Reagan

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Reagan, Ronald. Remark at Republican congressional dinner. Salute to President Ronald Reagan Dinner. 4 May 1982, Washington, DC, USA.

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North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

Richard Nixon

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Nixon, Richard. Televised address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam. 3 Nov. 1969, Washington, DC, USA.

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Nixon, Richard. Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents, edited by Rick Perlstein. Princeton University Press, 2008, ch. 19.