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Make sure to allow people to take care of you.

Mickalene Thomas

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Thomas, Mickalene. Interviewed by Leigh Silver. Complex, 1 Oct. 2014, reprinted at https://www.complex.com/style/2014/10/interview-mickalene-thomas.

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Flattery will get you nowhere - but don't stop trying.

Dr. No

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Dr. No. Directed by Terence Young, Eon Productions, 1962.

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Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did, and never can, carry us beyond our own person, and it is by the imagination only that we can form any conception of what are his sensations... His agonies, when they are thus brought home to ourselves, when we have thus adopted and made them our own, begin at last to affect us, and we then tremble and shudder at the thought of what he feels.

Adam Smith

The Theory of Moral Sentiments

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Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments. London: Andrew Millar/Edinburgh: Alexander Kincaid and J. Bell, 1759, pt. 1, sect. 1, ch. 1.

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Smith, Adam. The Theory of Moral Sentiments, edited by Ryan Patrick Hanley. Penguin, 2010, pt. 1, sect. 1, ch. 1.

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I wanna do a lotta things that don’t make sense.

Moonlight

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Moonlight. Directed by Barry Jenkins, A24/Plan B Entertainment/Pastel Productions, 2016.

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Mine honor is my life; both grow in one.
Take honor from me and my life is done.

William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare, William. Richard II. 9 Dec. 1595, The house of Edward Hoby, Westminster, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 1.

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

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There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

Mark Twain

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Twain, Mark. "Refuge of the Derelicts." Fables of Man. University of California Press, 1972.

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Twain, Mark. "Refuge of the Derelicts." The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's "Great Dark" Writings. University of California Press, 2005.

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We've come to this planet looking for intelligent life. Oops, we made a mistake.

Mrs. Doubtfire

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Mrs. Doubtfire. Directed by Chris Columbus, 20th Century Fox/Blue Wolf Productions, 1993.

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O Sorrow, wilt thou live with me
No casual mistress, but a wife.

Alfred Tennyson

In Memoriam A.H.H.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. In Memoriam A.H.H. London: Edward Moxon, 1850, pt. 59, st. 1.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. In Memoriam, edited by Erik Gray. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, pt. 59, st. 1.

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Remember, Don... When God closes a door, he opens a dress.

Roger Sterling

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Mad Men

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"Long Weekend." Mad Men, written by Matthew Weiner and Bridget Bedard and André Jacquemetton, directed by Tim Hunter, season 1, episode 10, Lionsgate Television and American Movie Classics and Weiner Bros., 2007.

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Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

William Shakespeare

The Rape of Lucrece

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Shakespeare, William. The Rape of Lucrece. London: Richard Field, 1594, I. 355.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Rape of Lucrece." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, I. 355.

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There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

No Time like the Old Time

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. "No Time like the Old Time." The Atlantic Monthly. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, Oct. 1865, st. 1.

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I just keep losing. I mean some people just supposed to lose? For balance in the universe? I mean, like, are there just some people on Earth who supposed to be here just to make it easier for the winners? Like, really.

Atlanta

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"The Big Bang." Atlanta, written by Donald Glover, directed by Hiro Murai, season 1, episode 1, FX Productions and MGMT Entertainment, 2016.

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Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights—then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward; that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Fourth Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Fourth Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1945, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Fourth Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, January 20, 1945." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

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Only the little people pay taxes.

Leona Helmsley

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Helmsley, Leona. Quoted in "Maid Testifies Helmsley Denied Paying Taxes." Written by The Associated Press. The New York Times, 12 July 1989.

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We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

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Hamilton, Alexander. Debates of the Federal Convention. Constitutional Convention. 26 June 1787, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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The heart is like a viper, hissing, and spitting poison at God.

Jonathan Edwards

Men Naturally God's Enemies

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Edwards, Jonathan. "Men Naturally God's Enemies." Aug. 1736, United States, sect. 1.

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Edwards, Jonathan. "Men Naturally God's Enemies." The Works of Jonathan Edwards, edited by Edward Hickman. Vol. 2, Banner of Truth, 1995, sect. 1.

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You underestimate the power of the Dark Side. If you will not fight, then you will meet your destiny.

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

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

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Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "The Path of the Law." Address to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts at the dedication of the new hall of the Boston University School of Law. 8 Jan. 1897, Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA, USA.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "The Path of the Law." The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, edited by Richard A. Posner. University of Chicago Press, 1997.

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My pencils outlast their erasers.

Vladimir Nabokov

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Nabokov, Vladimir. "Anonymous." Strong Opinions. McGraw-Hill, 1973.

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La familia es todo.

Breaking Bad

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"One Minute." Breaking Bad, written by Thomas Schnauz, directed by Michelle MacLaren, season 3, episode 7, High Bridge/Gran Via Productions/Sony Pictures Television, 2010.

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