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My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

James Joyce

Araby

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Joyce, James. “Araby.” Dubliners. Grant Richards Ltd., 1914.

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Joyce, James. “Araby.” Dubliners, edited by Terence Brown. Penguin Classics, 2014.

And though hard be the task,
"Keep a stiff upper lip."

Phoebe Cary

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Cary, Phoebe. Keep a Stiff Upper Lip. c. 1870.

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Burns, Robert. Quoted in "Auld Lang Syne." Scots Musical Museum. Written by James Johnson. 1796, st. 1.

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Burns, Robert. "Auld Lang Syne." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited by Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994.

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Shakespeare, William and John Fletcher. Henry VIII. King's Men, 1613, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Henry the Eighth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblattet al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

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Cash, June Carter and Merle Kilgore. "Ring of Fire." Performed by Johnny Cash. Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash. Columbia Nashville, 1963.

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Trump, Donald and Tony Schwartz. Trump: The Art of the Deal. Random House, 1987, ch. 1.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar." Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College. 31 Aug. 1837, First Parish in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar (1837)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Tennyson, Alfred. "Locksley Hall." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 182.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Locksley Hall." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 182.

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Williams, Hank. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. MGM Records, 1949.

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Thatcher, Margaret. Speech to members of the National Union of Townswomen’s Guilds. 20 May 1965, Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK.

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Doyle, Arthur. "The Sign of the Four; or, The Problem of the Sholtos." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. London: Lippincott's, 1890, ch. 1.

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Doyle, Arthur. The Sign of Four. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2009, ch. 1.

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Gandhi, Mahatma. Statement made at his trial. The Great Trial of 1922. 23 Mar. 1922, Ahmadabad, India.

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Gandhi, Mahatma. The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings, edited by Tridip Suhrud. Penguin Classics, 2019, pt. 1, ch. 9.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 132.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 132.

People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?

Rodney King

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King, Rodney. Statement following Los Angeles riots. 1 May 1992, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

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Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Bring the Pain. HBO, 1 June 1996.

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Wilson, Woodrow. Address to congress requesting a declaration of war against Germany. Congress meeting. 2 Apr. 1917, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Wilson, Woodrow. "Address to a Joint Session of Congress Calling for a Declaration of War." Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-President, edited by Mario R. DiNunzio. New York University Press, 2006.

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McCarthy, Cormac. No Country for Old Men. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005, ch. 9.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.

Gil Scott-Heron

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"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." Slogan among the Black Power movements. c. 1960.

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Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." The Egoist, 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915.

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Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by Seamus Deane. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 5.