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Trudeau, Pierre. Comment in the Canadian House of Commons on the decriminalization of homosexuality. Canadian House of Commons. 22 Dec. 1967, Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada.

Accurst be he that first invented war.

Christopher Marlowe

Tamburlaine the Great

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Marlowe, Christopher. Tamburlaine the Great. Admiral's Men, 1587, Rose Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 4.

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Marlowe, Christopher. Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays, edited by Frank Romany and Robert Lindsey. Penguin Classics, 2004, act 2, sc. 4.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. Speech at the Grand Canyon. 6 May 1903, The Grand Canyon, AZ, USA.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The Natural Wonder of the Grand Canyon." Great Speeches of the 20th Century, edited by Bob Blaisdell. Dover Publications, 2011.

Everyone repeats themselves.

Rachel Whiteread

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Whiteread, Rachel. "Rachel Whiteread: 'I Couldn't Say No. It Felt Right to Do This One.'" Interviewed by Rachel Cooke. Guardian, Jul 7, 2012, www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jul/07/rachel-whiteread-whitechapel-art-interviewchapel-art-interview.

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Fry, Elizabeth. Note found among her papers. c. 1848.

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Fry, Elizabeth. Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry, edited by Katharine Fry and Rachel Elizabeth Cresswell. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2011, ch. 10.

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Herr, Michael. "Colleagues." Dispatches. Alfred A. Knopf, 1977, pt. 3.

At the stroke of the midnight hour, while the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Said just prior to the moment of India's independence from the British Empire.

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Nehru, Jawaharlal. "Tryst with Destiny." Indian Constituent Assembly. 14 Aug. 1947, New Delhi, India. Speech.

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1953, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Carter, James E. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1977, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Rauschenberg, Robert. Quoted in Rauschenberg, by Barbara Rose. Vintage Books/Elizabeth Avedon Editions, 1987, p. 85.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Village Blacksmith." The Knickerbocker. New York City: Lewis Gaylord Clark, Nov. 1840, I. 1.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Village Blacksmith." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems & Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, I. 1.

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1653, pt. 1, ch. 18.

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, edited by Marjorie Swann. Oxford University Press, 2014, pt. 1, ch. 18.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Letter to Maria Gisborne." Posthumous Poems. London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824, I. 193.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Letter to Maria Gisborne." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 193.

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Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Hearsts's International Library, 1914.

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Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Vintage Classics, 2018.

I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

Lucian Freud

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Freud, Lucian. Portraits: Talking with Artists at the Met, the Modern, the Louvre and Elsewhere. Interviewed by Michael Kimmelman. Random House, 1998, p. 109.

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Paine, Thomas. The American Crisis: Number 1. Philadelphia: Styner and Cist, 1776.

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Paine, Thomas. "The American Crisis, Number I, December 19, 1776." Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution. Library of America, 2015.

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Buchanan, James. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1857, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Chagall, Marc. "Painting: Midsummer Night's Dreamer." Time Magazine, 30 Jul. 1965.

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Bruguera, Tania. Interviewed by Erik Wenzel. Artslant, May 2013, www.artslant.com/global/artists/rackroom/22895-tania-bruguera.

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Harrison, William Henry. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1841, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.