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He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Kingsley Amis

One Fat Englishman

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Amis, Kingsley. One Fat Englishman. Harcourt, Brace & World/Gollancz, 1963.

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I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Thomas Love Peacock

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Peacock, Thomas Love. "Gryll Grange." Fraser's Magazine, 1860.

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Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years.

Tallulah Bankhead

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Bankhead, Tallulah. Tallulah: My Autobiography. Harper & Bros./Victor Gollancz, 1952, ch. 4.

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The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
As sages in all times assert;
The happy man's without a shirt.

John Heywood

Be Merry Friends

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Heywood, John. Be Merry Friends. c. 1580.

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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.

Thomas Pynchon

Gravity's Rainbow

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Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's Rainbow. Viking Press, 1973.

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Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Learned Hand

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Hand, Learned. "At Forescore." Harvard University Annual Dinner. 18 Jan. 1952, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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The English Bible,— a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "John Dryden." Edinburgh Review, Jan. 1828.

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No, no, really! Memory's not perfect. It's not even that good. Ask the police. Eyewitness testimony is unreliable. The cops don't catch a killer by sitting around remembering stuff. They collect facts, they make notes and they draw conclusions. Facts, not memory. That's how you investigate. I know. It's what I used to do. Look, memory can change the shape of a room. It can change the color of a car and memories can be distorted. They're just an interpretation. They're not a record. They're irrelevant if you have the facts.

Memento

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Memento. Directed by Christopher Nolan, Summit Entertainment/Team Todd, 2000.

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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

John Ruskin

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Ruskin, John. "Of Kings Treasures." Sesame and Lilies. 1864, Manchester, UK.

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Ruskin, John. Sesame and Lilies. The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 18, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.

Dorothea Mackellar

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Core of My Heart

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Mackellar, Dorothea. "Core of My Heart." The Spectator, 5 Sept. 1908.

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Mackellar, Dorothea. "My Country." My Country and Other Poems. Viking, 1988.

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Wide and undetermined Prospects are as pleasing to the Fancy, as the Speculations of Eternity or Infinitude are to the Understanding.

Joseph Addison

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Addison, Joseph. "Monday, June 23, 1712." The Spectator, 1712, no. 412.

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Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. My father worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.

Ralphie Parker

A Christmas Story

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A Christmas Story. Directed by Bob Clark, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1983.

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To men a man is but a mind. Who cares
What face he carries or what form he wears?
But woman's body is the woman.

Ambrose Bierce

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Bierce, Ambrose. The Cynic's Word Book. Arthur F. Bird, 1906.

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Bierce, Ambrose. The Devil's Dictionary. Dover Publications, 1993.

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Reason is the life of the law, nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason.

Edward Coke

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Coke, Edward. The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. Or, a Commentarie upon Littleton, Not the Name of a Lawyer Onely, but of the Law it selfe. London: Societe of Stationers, 1628, bk. 2, ch. 6, sect. 138.

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The frontier is the outer edge of the wave-the meeting-point between savagery and civilization... And line of most rapid and effective Americanization. The wilderness masters the colonist.

Frederick Jackson Turner

The Significance of the Frontier in American History

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Turner, Frederick Jackson. "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." American Historical Association meeting. 1893, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL, USA.

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