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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.

William Cullen Bryant

The Death of the Flowers

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Bryant, William Cullen. "The Death of the Flowers." Poems. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839, st. 1.

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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,
Which, to admire, we should not understand.

William Congreve

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Congreve, William. Love for Love. 30 Apr. 1695, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 21.

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Congreve, William. "Love for Love." The Way of the World and Other Plays, edited by Eric S. Rump. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 4, sc. 21.

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All the wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light.

John Muir

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Muir, John. Journal entry. 1869.

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Muir, John. "My First Summer in the Sierra." John Muir: Nature Writings. Library of America, 1997, ch. 10.

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It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and, from the first moment of your begetting it, it generally grows the stronger by every thing you see, hear, read, or understand.

Laurence Sterne

Tristram Shandy

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Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Vol. 2, London: Ann Ward, 1760, ch. 19.

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Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, edited by Ian Campbell Ross. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 19.

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No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Ellen Glasgow

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Glasgow, Ellen. Address in New York. Modern Language Association meeting. 1936, New York, NY, USA.

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I thought you were incredibly brave. And I mean that in strictly the most clinical and professional sense possible, with no emotional, intimate, sexual, or any other undertones that you could possibly infer.

Step Brothers

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Step Brothers. Directed by Adam McKay, Columbia Pictures/Relativity Media/The Apatow Company/Mosaic Media Group/Gary Sanchez Productions, 2008.

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You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

King Charles III

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King Charles. Speech at the Mansion House. London Planning and Communication Committee's Annual Dinner. 1 Dec. 1987, Mansion House, London, England, UK.

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A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

Leonard Cohen

The Favourite Game

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Cohen, Leonard. The Favourite Game. Secker and Warburg, 1963, bk. 3, ch. 8.

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Thou art my way; I wander, if thou fly;
Thou art my light; if hid, how blind am I!
Thou art my life; if thou withdraw, I die.

Francis Quarles

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Quarles, Francis. Emblemes, Divine and Moral. London, 1635, bk. 3, emblem 7.

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What's the matter, boy? I bet you can squeal. I bet you can squeal like a pig. Let's squeal. Squeal now. Squeal.

Deliverance

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Deliverance. Directed by John Boorman, Elmer Enterprises, 1972.

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Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learned to stray;
Along the cool sequestered vale of life
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

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Gray, Thomas. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. London: Robert Dodsley, 1751.

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Gray, Thomas. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Elegy Written In Country Churchyard and Other Poems. Penguin Classics, 2009.

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The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence-free of the network of dead speech.

Freya Stark

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Stark, Freya. Perseus in the Wind. London: John Murray, 1948, ch. 1.

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The Winklevi aren't suing me for intellectual property theft. They are suing me because for the first time in their lives, things didn't work out the way they were supposed to for them.

Mark Zuckerberg

The Social Network

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The Social Network. Directed by David Fincher. Columbia Pictures/Relativity Media/Scott Rudin Productions/Michael De Luca Productions/Trigger Street Productions, 2010.

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A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.

Michael Kinsley

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Kinsley, Michael. The Guardian. 14 Jan. 1992.

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It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Palahniuk, Chuck. Diary. Doubleday, 2003.

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

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Peter, Laurence J. The Peter Principle. William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1969, ch. 1.

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We're a nation of community, of thousands and tens of thousands of ethnic, religious, social, business, labor union, neighborhood, regional and other organizations, all of them varied, voluntary, and unique... A brillant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

George H.W. Bush

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Bush, George H. W. Acceptance address at the Republican National Convention. Republican National Convention. 18 Aug. 1988, New Orleans, LA, USA.

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Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle he does not lose himself.

Friday Night Lights

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"State." Friday Night Lights, written by Jason Katims and Patrick Massett and John Zinman, directed by Jeffrey Reiner, season 1, episode 22, Universal Television and Imagine Television, 2007.

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Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros.-First National, 1948.

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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

John Dewey

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Dewey, John. "The Quest for Certainty: A Study of the Relation of Knowledge and Action." 1928–1929, Edinburgh, Scotland.

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