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A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson)

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Friendship." Essays: First Series. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Friendship." The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, edited by Brooks Atkinson. Modern Library, 2000.

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Why don't you do the world a favor? Pull your lip over your head and swallow.

Grumpy Old Men

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Grumpy Old Men. Directed by Donald Petrie. Warner Bros., 1993.

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I write about little things because the big ones are like abysses.

Anaïs Nin

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Nin, Anaïs. "November, 1934." The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 1, 1931-1934, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann. Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, 1966.

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You know how old people drive? They drive slow, they sit low. That is their motto. The state flag of Florida should be just a steering wheel with a hat and two knuckles on it.

Jerry Seinfeld

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Seinfeld, Jerry. I'm Telling You for the Last Time. HBO, 9 Aug 1998.

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Oscar Wilde

Fortnightly Review

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." Fortnightly Review. London: Chapman and Hall, Feb. 1891.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose, edited by Linda Dowling. Penguin Classics, 2001.

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The American people have encountered together great dangers and sustained severe trials with success. They constitute one great family with a common interest.

James Monroe

First Inaugural Address of James Monroe

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Monroe, James. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1817, Front steps, Old Brick Capitol, Washington, DC, USA.

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The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions. For life is a kind of chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effects of prudence or the want of it.

Benjamin Franklin

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Franklin, Benjamin. "The Morals of Chess." The Columbian Magazine, Dec. 1786.

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

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He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

H.G. Wells

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Wells, H. G. "Lord of the Dynamos." Pall Mall Budget, 6 Sept. 1894.

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Wells, H. G. "Lord of the Dynamos." Selected Stories of H. G. Wells, edited by Ursula K. Le Guin. Modern Library, 2004.

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Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications.

Oscar Wilde

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Wilde, Oscar. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime." Lord Arthur Savile's Crime: The Portrait of Mr. W.H. and Other Stories. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1891.

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Wilde, Oscar. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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I've often fantasized I would get a lot of writing done if I were put in prison for a minor crime. Three to six months.

Amy Tan

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Tan, Amy. "Amy Tan: By the Book." The New York Times, 14 Nov. 2013.

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Nor is the question before us whether the market is a force for good or ill. Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control and the nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.

Barack Obama

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Obama, Barack. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 2009, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Action may not always be happiness, but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Lothair. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1870, ch. 79.

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What is called monarchy, always appears to me a silly, contemptible thing. I compare it to something kept behind a curtain, about which there is a great deal of bustle and fuss, and a wonderful air of seeming solemnity; but when, by any accident, the curtain happens to be open, and the company see what it is, they burst into laughter.

Thomas Paine

Rights of Man

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Paine, Thomas. Rights of man. Part the second. London: J. S. Jordan, 1792.

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Paine, Thomas. "Rights of Man Part the second." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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An army that carries the ark before it, is invincible.

Raiders of the Lost Ark

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Raiders of the Lost Ark. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Lucasfilm Ltd., 1981.

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Europe is again unsettled and the prospect of war increasing. Should the flame light up in any quarter, how far it may extend it is impossible to foresee. It is our peculiar felicity to be altogether unconnected with the causes which produce this menacing aspect elsewhere. With every power we are in perfect amity, and it is our interest to remain so if it be practicable on just conditions.

James Monroe

Second Inaugural Address of James Monroe

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Monroe, James. "Second Inaugural Address." 5 Mar. 1821, House Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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You think I have time to ask a man why he givin' me money or where he gets his money from? I'll take any motherfucker's money if he givin' it away!

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"Soft Eyes." The Wire, written David Simon and David Mills and Ed Burns, directed by Christine Moore, season 4, episode 2, Blown Deadline Productions and Home Box Office, 2006.

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If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality—its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extention—its enlargement.

Abraham Lincoln

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Cooper Institute, New York City." 27 Feb. 1860, New York City, NY, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "Address at Cooper Institute, New York City, February 27, 1860." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

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I was cured, all right!

A Clockwork Orange

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A Clockwork Orange. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Polaris Productions/Hawk Films, 1971.

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Pleasure is a thief to business.

Daniel Defoe

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Defoe, Daniel. The Complete English Tradesman. London: 1726.

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