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Shut up, I'm having a rhetorical conversation.

The Producers

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The Producers. Directed by Mel Brooks, Crossbow Productions, AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1967.

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Death comes for us all, my lords. Yes, even for kings he comes.

A Man for All Seasons (film)

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A Man for All Seasons. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Highland Films, 1966.

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Goddammit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like living in jail.

Richard Wright

Native Son

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Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940, bk. 1.

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G.K. Chesterton

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Chesterton, G.K. "Our Note Book." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 34, Ignatius Press, 1991. Originally published by Illustrated London Times, 5 May 1928.

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Familiar Studies of Men and Books. London: Chatto & Windus, 1882.

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Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Stella Benson

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This is the End

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Benson, Stella. This is the End. Macmillian, 1917.

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I'll shove that bat up your ass and turn you into a popsicle.

The Warriors

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The Warrors. Directed by Walter Hill, Lawrence Gordon Productions, 1979.

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Whoso taketh in hand to frame any state or government, ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Raleigh, Walter. The Cabinet-Council. London: Thomas Johnson, 1658, ch. 26.

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I see you're drinking one percent. Is that cause you think you're fat? Cause you're not. You could be drinking whole if you wanted to.

Napoleon Dynamite

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Napoleon Dynamite. Directed by Jared Hess, Fox Searchlight Pictures/Paramount Pictures/MTV Films, 2004.

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I am tired of fighting... I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead.

Chief Joseph

Speech of surrender at end of the Nez Perce War, October 5th, 1877.

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Chief Joseph. "I Will No Longer Fight Forever More." 5 Oct. 1877, Blaine County, Montana Territory, USA.

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Censorship of any form punishes curiosity.

Sherman Alexie

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Alexie, Sherman. "Sherman Alexie: The Value of Subverting Authority." Guernica, 5 Oct. 2012.

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Freedom is life's great lie. Once you accept that, in your heart, you will know peace.

The Avengers

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The Avengers. Directed by Joss Whedon, Marvel Studios, 2012.

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When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.

Desmond Tutu

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Tutu, Desmond. God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time. Doubleday, 2004.

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Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 31.

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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

On Conciliation with America

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with America." House of Commons. 22 Mar. 1775, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

George Savile, Lord Halifax

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Savile, George. "Of Anger." A Character of King Charles The Second and Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750.

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It is hard for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Thomas Hardy

Far From the Madding Crowd

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Hardy, Thomas [published anonymously]. "Far From the Madding Crowd." Cornhill Magazine, 1874.

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Hardy, Thomas. Far from the Madding Crowd, edited by Rosemarie Morgan. Penguin Classics, 2015.

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I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets from the Portuguese. London: Chapman and Hall, 1850, sonnet 43.

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. "Sonnets from the Portuguese." Aurora Leigh and Other Poems, edited by John Robert Glorney Bolton and Julia Bolton Holloway. Penguin Classics, 1996, sonnet 43.

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