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Pepys, Samuel. Diary entry. 9 Nov. 1665.

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Pepys, Samuel. "Diary entry, 9 Nov. 1665." The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Everyman's Library, 2018.

You have not converted a man, because you have silenced him.

John Morley

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Morley, John. On Compromise. London: Chapman and Hall, 1874, ch. 5.

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Adams, John. "A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law." Boston Gazette, 30 Sept. 1765.

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Adams, John. "A Disseratation on the Canon and Feudal Law." The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States, edited by Charles Francis Adams. Vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Wall Street. Directed by Oliver Stone, American Entertainment Partners/American Films, 1987.

You can't be serious!

John McEnroe

To a line judge at Wimbledon.

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McEnroe, John. Quoted in N.Y. Post. 22 June 1981. Originally a comment to empire at Wimbledon tennis tournament. 22 June 1981, London, England, UK.

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Centlivre, Susannah. The Man's Bewitch'd; or, The Devil to do about Her. Performed by John Bowman and John Mills and Benjamin Husband and Robert Wilks. 12 Dec. 1709, Queen's Theatre, Haymarket, London, England, UK, act 3.

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

Rahm Emanuel

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Emanuel, Rahm. Quoted in "In Crisis, Opportunity for Obama." Written by Gerald F. Seib. Wall Street Journal, 21 Nov. 2008.

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Shakespeare, William. Henry the Sixth, Part 2. London: Thomas Millington, 1594, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Second Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 1.

All art is biographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Federico Fellini

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Fellini, Federico. Quoted in The Atlantic, Dec. 1965.

Whoever would lie usefully should lie seldom.

Lord Hervey

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Lord Hervey. Memoirs of the Reign of George II, edited by J. W. Croker. London: John Murray, 1848.

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Berlin, Isaiah. "Two Concepts of Liberty." 31 Oct. 1958, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.

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Berlin, Isaiah. Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom: ‘Two Concepts of Liberty’ 50 Years Later, edited by Bruce Baum and Robert Nichols. Routledge, 2015.

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Edwards, Jonathan. "Procrastination or The Sin and Folly of Depending on Future Time." c. 1834. Sermon.

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Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. University of Chicago Press, 1962, ch. 1.

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Tennyson, Alfred. "Ulysses." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 22.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Ulysses." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 22.

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Green, John. Looking for Alaska. Dutton Juvenile, 2005.

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Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning. London: Oxford: Rob Youn and Ed Forrest, 1605, bk. 2, ch. 7, sect. 5.

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Bacon, Francis. "The Advancement of Learning." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 2, sect. 5.

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Cowper, William. "Charity." Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. London: J. Johnson, 1782, I. 159.

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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi. Directed by Richard Marquand, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1983.

You should always except the present company.

John O'Keeffe

The London Hermit

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O'Keeffe, John. The London Hermit; or, Rambles in Dorsetshire. 1793, Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 2.

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Wordsworth, William. Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.

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Wordsworth, William. "I wandered lonely as a cloud." William Wordsworth: The Major Works including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008.