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Tell me the old, old story
Of unseen things above,
Of Jesus and his glory,
Of Jesus and his love.

Katherine Hankey

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Tell Me the Old, Old Story

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Hankey, Kate. Tell me the old, old story. Composed by William Hovard Doane. c. 1867.

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He's always attracted by the art he isn't practicing, the place he hasn't been, the girl he hasn't met.

An Affair to Remember

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An Affair to Remember. Directed by Leo McCarey, Jerry Wald Productions, 1957.

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People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again-but it finds a tougher surface.

Willa Cather

The Song of the Lark

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Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915, pt. 2, ch. 11.

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Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Vintage, 1999, pt. 2, ch. 11.

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And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

Dr. Seuss

The King's Stilts

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Dr. Seuss. The King's Stilts. Random House, 1939.

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I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade

W.H. Auden

September 1,1939

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Auden, W. H. "September 1, 1939." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940. Originally published in The New Republic, 18 Oct. 1939.

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But, friend, to me
He is all fault who hath no fault at all:
For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

Alfred Tennyson

Idylls of the King

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Tennyson, Alfred. "Lancelot and Elaine." Idylls of the King. London: Edward Moxon, 1859, I. 131-133.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Lancelot and Elaine." Idylls of the King, edited by J. M. Gray. Penguin Classics, 1989, I. 131-133.

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Surprised, Eddie? If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn’t be more surprised than I am right now.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik, Hughes Entertainment, 1989.

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We must push as hard as they push, and then push a little stronger.

Harvey Milk

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Milk, Harvey. "Harvey Speaks Out." Bay Area Reporter, 8 Dec. 1977.

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We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Grutter v. Bollinger

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O'Connor, Sandra Day. United States, Supreme Court. Grutter v. Bollinger. United States Reports, vol. 539, 23 June 2003, pp. 306-395. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/539/306/.

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History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

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Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.

Alexander Pope

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Pope, Alexander. "Ode on Solitude." 1700?

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Pope, Alexander. "Ode on Solitude." Essay on Man & Other Poems. Dover, 1994.

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We realize that the greatest things that remain to be done must be done with the whole world for stage and in cooperation with the wide and universal forces of mankind, and we are making our spirits ready for those things.

Woodrow Wilson

Second Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson

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Wilson, Woodrow. "Second Inaugural Address." 5 Mar. 1917, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

Hannah Arendt

The New Yorker

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Arendt, Hannah. "Civil Disobedience." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972. Originally published as "Reflections on Civil Disobedience" by The New Yorker, 12 Sept. 1970.

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