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All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine.

Jeff Spicoli

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Directed by Amy Heckerling,Refugee Films, 1982.

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Milton, John. "To Oliver Cromwell." Letters of State Written by Mr. John Milton. London, 1694, l. 9.

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Milton, John. "To the Lord General Cromwell." John Milton: The Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 9.

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Get Out. Directed by Jordan Peele, Blumhouse Productions/QC Entertainment/Monkeypaw Productions, 2017.

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

Robert E. Lee

On seeing a Union charge repulsed by the Confederate army.

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Lee, Robert E. Comment to James Longstreet, on seeing a Union charge repelled in the Battle of Fredericksburg. Battle of Fredericksburg. 13 Dec. 1862, Fredericksburg, VA, USA.

The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sealed.

Charlotte Brontë

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

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Brontë, Charlotte. "Evening Solace." Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. 1846, st. 1.

All shall be well, and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well.

Julian of Norwich

Revelatons of Divine Love

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Julian of Norwich. Revelations of Divine Love. London, c. 1670.

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Julian of Norwich. Revelations of Divine Love, translated by Barry Windeatt. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 27.

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The Terminator. Directed by James Cameron, Hemdale/Pacific Western Productions/Euro Film Funding/Cinema '84, 1984.

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Orwell, George. Down and Out in Paris and London. Victor Gollancz, 1933, ch. 30.

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Citizen Kane. Directed by Orson Welles. RKO Radio Pictures/Mercury Productions, 1941.

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Shakespeare, William. The Merry Wives of Windsor. London: Arthur Johnson, 1602, act 2, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Merry Wives of Windsor." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 2.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1801, Senate Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 6. Originally from Notebook, 2 July 1867.

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Darwin, Charles. Letter to A. S. Wilson, 5 Mar. 1879.

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Darwin, Charles. "To A. S. Wilson, 5 March 1879." The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, edited by Frederick Burkhardt and James A. Secord. Vol. 27: 1879. Cambridge University Press, 2020, no. 11917.

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Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 1, ch. 2.

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Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 2.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1861, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugral Address, March 4, 1861." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 2018.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor." The London Chronicle, 27 Nov. 1766 - 29 Nov. 1766.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "On the Price of Corn, and Management of the Poor." Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings. Bantam Classic, 2008.

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Steinem, Gloria. "Erotica vs. Pornography." Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions. Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1983. Originally published c. 1978, publisher unknown.

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1750.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard Improved." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. London: Bradbury & Evans, May 1852, issue 3, ch. 8.

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Dickens, Charles. Bleak House. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 8.

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What About Bob? Directed by Frank Oz, Touchstone Pictures/Touchwood Pacific Partners, 1991.