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Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

Judith Butler

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Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge, 1990, ch. 3, pt. 4.

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In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ! It is he who commands you! It is he who flung you from the gates of Heaven to the depths of Hell!

The Exorcist

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The Exorcist. Directed by William Friedkin, Hoya Productions, 1973.

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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

The Way of All Flesh

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Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Grant Richards, 1903, ch. 19.

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Butler, Samuel. The Way of All Flesh. Everyman's Library, 1993, ch. 19.

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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas,
Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Sir Walter Raleigh

The Faerie Queens

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Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. London: William Ponsonbie, 1590, bk. 1, canto 9, st. 40.

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Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene, edited by Thomas P. Roche and C. Patrick O'Donnell. Penguin Classics, 1979, bk. 1, canto 9, st. 40.

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True happinesse
Consists not in the multitude of friends,
But in the worth, and choice.

Ben Jonson

Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love

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Jonson, Ben. Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love. Children of the Chapel, 1600, Blackfriars Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 4.

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I actually did vote for the $87 billion, before I voted against it.

John Kerry

On a vote to fund the 2003 Iraq War.

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Kerry, John. Remark about the $87 billion bill. 16 Mar. 2004, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, USA.

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I'm gonna give you to the count of 10, to get your ugly, yella, no-good keister off my property, before I pump your guts full of lead! 1...2...10!

Home Alone

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Home Alone. Directed by Chris Columbus, Hughes Entertainment , 1990.

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I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South its dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings, and I have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Robert E. Lee

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Lee, Robert E. Spoken to a friend who condemned the North at the end of the war. c. 1865.

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Lee, Robert E. Quoted in The Civil War: An Illustrated History, by Geoffrey C. Ward. Alfred A. Knopf, 1990, ch. 5.

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Life's hard. It's suppose to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing, you know?

Before Sunset

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Before Sunset. Directed by Richard Linklater, Castle Rock Entertainment/ Detour Filmproduction/Columbia Pictures, 2004.

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Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the Constitution, and all means which are appropriate, which are plainly adapted to that end, which are not prohibited, but consist with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, are Constitutional.

John Marshall

McCulloch v. Maryland

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Marshall, John. United States, Supreme Court. McCulloch v. Maryland. United States Reports, vol. 17, 5 Mar. 1819, pp. 316-437. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/17/316/.

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All women are stimulated by the news that any wife has left any husband.

Anthony Powell

The Acceptance World

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Powell, Anthony. A Dance to the Music of Time: The Acceptance World. Vol. 3, London: Heinemann, 1955, ch. 4.

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I like to be in America,
OK by me in America,
Everything free in America.

West Side Story

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West Side Story. Directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise, Seven Arts Productions/The Mirisch Company, 1961.

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All the news that's fit to print.

Adolph S. Ochs

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Ochs, Adolph. "Winning Slogan for the Times on the Web." The New York Times, 25 Oct. 1996, https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/specials/contest/.

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Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell. "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table." The New England Magazine. Boston: Joseph T. Buckingham, Nov. 1831 and Feb. 1832.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Dover Publications, 2015.

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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

Patrick Henry

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Speech at the Second Virginia Convention

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Henry, Patrick. "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!" Second Virginia Convention. 23 Mar. 1775, St. John's Church, Richmond, VA, USA. Speech.

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Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Charlie Parker

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Parker, Charlie. Quoted in Hear Me Talkin' to Ya. Written by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff. Rinehart & Company, 1955.

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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

G.K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy

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Chesterton, G.K. "Orthodoxy." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 1, Ignatius Press, 1986, ch. 4. Originally published by John Lane Co., 1908.

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