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Notorious. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, RKO Pictures/Vanguard Films, 1946.

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Hume, David, [published anonymously]. A Treatise of Human Nature. London: John Noon, 1739, bk. 1, pt. 4, sec. 7.

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Hume, David. "A Treatise of Human Nature." The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume, edited by David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton. Vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 2007, bk. 1, pt. 4, sect. 7.

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Milton, John. "Samson Agonistes." Paradise Regained, A Poem in 4 Books, to which is added Samson Agonistes. London: John Starkey, 1671, I. 1003.

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Milton, John. "Samson Agonistes." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, l. 1003.

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Bacon, Francis. "Of Expense." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Expense." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Peter Carr. 19 Aug. 1785.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

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Nehru, Jawaharlal. "The Basic Approach." AICC Economic Review, 15 Aug. 1958.

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Darwin, Charles. Letter to Asa Gray. 22 May 1860.

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Darwin, Charles. Letter to Asa Gray, 22 May [1860]." The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, edited by Frederick Burkhardt and James A. Secord. Vol. 8: 1860. Cambridge University Press, 2022, no. 2814.

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Up in the Air. Directed by Jason Reitman, DreamWorks Pictures/The Montecito Picture Company/Cold Spring Pictures/Rickshaw Productions/Right of Way Films, 2009.

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Milton, John. Areopagitica; a speech of Mr. John Milton for the liberty of unlicenc'd printing, to the Parlament of England. 1644.

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Milton, John. "Areopagitica." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008.

It's a pity you don't have as much charm as you have persistence.

An American in Paris

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An American in Paris. Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1951.

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Rounders. Directed by John Dahl, Spanky Pictures, 1998.

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Lawrence of Arabia. Directed by David Lean, Horizon Pictures, 1962.

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Little Miss Sunshine. Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Big Beach Films/Bona Fide Productions/Third Gear Productions, 2006.

Risk is what keeps us young, isn't it, darling?

The Wolf of Wall Street

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The Wolf of Wall Street. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Red Granite Pictures, Appian Way Productions/Sikelia Productions/EMJAG Productions, 2013.

The best way to get inside city hall is to make noise on the street.

Bhairavi Desai

Quoted in The New Yorker

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Desai, Bhairavi. Quoted in "Thin Yellow Line: The Taxi Driver's Advocate." Written by Lizzie Widicombe. The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2017.

What a glorious morning is this.

Samuel Adams

On hearing gunfire at Lexington, 19 April 1775.

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Adams, Samuel. Comment upon hearing the gunfire at the Battle of Lexington. 19 Apr. 1775, Lexington, MA, USA.

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

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Big Fish. Directed by Tim Burton, Columbia Pictures/Jinks/Cohen Company/The Zanuck Company, 2003.

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Hughes, Langston. "Note In Music." Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, Jan. 1936.

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Hughes, Langston. "Note In Music." The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The Poems: 1921-1940, edited by Arnold Rampersad. Vol. 1, University of Missouri Press, 2001.

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Shakespeare, William. Henry IV, Part 1. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1597, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 1.

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