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Stand By Me. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Productions, 1986.

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Jefferon, Thomas. "The Response." 12 Feb. 1790.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "The Response, 12 February 1790." The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: November 1789 to 4 July 1790, edited by Julian P. Boyd. Vol. 16, Princeton University Press, 1961.

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"The Promotion." The Office, written by Greg Daniels and Jennifer Celotta and Ricky Gervais, directed by Jennifer Celotta, season 6, episode 3, Deedle-Dee Productions and Reveille Productions, 2009.

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Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia. Secker and Warburg, 1938, ch. 5.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Miller

Tropic of Cancer

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Miller, Henry. Tropic of Cancer. Obelisk Press, 1934.

Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.

Stonewall Jackson

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Jackson, Stonewall. Last words. 10 May 1863, Guinea, Virginia, USA.

Tuesday has no feel. Monday has a feel, Friday has a feel, Sunday has a feel.

Newman

Seinfeld

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"The Sniffing Accountant." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, directed by Tom Cherones, season 5, episode 4, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1993.

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Churchill, Winston. Note to his personal secretary John Colville. 21 June 1941.

The world is what it is.

V.S. Naipaul

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Naipaul, V. S. A Bend in the River. Alfred A Knopf, 1979, pt. 1.

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"Shotgun." Breaking Bad, written by Vince Gilligan and Thomas Schnauz, directed by Michelle MacLaren, season 4, episode 5, High Bridge Productions and Gran Via Productions, 2011.

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Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 17.

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Anthony, Susan B. “Women’s Rights to the Suffrage." 17 June 1873, Rochester, NY, USA.

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Dickinson, Emily. We Never Know How High We Are. Poems by Emily Dickinson: Third Series. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896, I. 1.

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Dickinson, Emily. "We Never Know How High We Are." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

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Yeats, William Butler. "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz." The Winding Stair and Other Poems. The Macmillan Company, 1933, I. 24.

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Yeats, William Butler. "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 24.

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Burke, Edmund. Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. London: R and J. Dodsley, 1757, pt. 4, sect. 18.

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Burke, Edmund. "Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, pt. 4, sect. 18.

There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in

Leonard Cohen

Anthem

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Cohen, Leonard. "Anthem." The Future. Columbia Records, 1992.

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go
I wanna be sedated
Nothing to do, nowhere to go
I wanna be sedated.

Ramones

I Wanna Be Sedated

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Ramone, Joey and Dee Dee Ramone and Johnny Ramone. "I Wanna Be Sedated." Performed by Ramones. Road to Ruin. Sire Records, 1978.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 19 Sept. 1777.

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Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

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Washington, George. "The Address of Gen. Washington to the People of America on His Declining the Presidency of the United States." Claypoole's American Daily Advertiser. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 19 Sept. 1796.

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Washington, George. "Farewell Address, September 19, 1796." George Washington: Writings, edited by John Rhodehamel. Library of America, 1997.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, pt. 5, ch. 3.

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Cather, Willa. O Pioneers, edited by Sharon O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, pt. 5, ch. 3.