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Nature never makes excellent things for mean or no uses.

John Locke

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

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Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. London: Thomas Basset, 1690, bk. 2, ch. 1, sect. 15.

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Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Pauline Phemister. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 1, sect. 15.

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If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

William Blake

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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Blake, William. "The Argument." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. c. 1790.

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Blake, William. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman. University of California Press, 2008.

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Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.

David Hume

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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Hume, David. "Sceptical Solution of These Doubts (In Two Parts)." An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. London: A. Millar, 1748, sect. 5, pt. 1, para. 6.

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Hume, David. "Sceptical Solution of These Doubts." An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp. Oxford University Press, 2000, sect. 5, pt. 1, para. 6.

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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

William Blake

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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Blake, William. "Proverbs of Hell." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. c. 1790.

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Blake, William. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman. University of California Press, 2008.

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Jerry, just remember, it’s not a lie if you believe it.

George Costanza

Seinfeld

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"The Beard." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld and Carol Leifer, directed by Andy Ackerman, season 6, episode 15, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1995.

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Shut up, brain. I got friends now. I don't need you anymore.

Lisa Simpson

The Simpsons

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"Bart of Darkness." The Simpsons, written by Matt Groening and James L. Brooks and Sam Simon, directed by Jim Reardon, season 6, episode 1, Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television, 1994.

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Do you have the slightest idea what a moral and ethical principle is? Do you?

The Shining

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The Shining. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, The Producer Circle Company/Peregrine Productions/Hawk Films, 1980.

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It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 6.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 8.

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Well, some things a man doesn't get over so easy.

The Quiet Man

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The Quiet Man. Directed by John Ford, Republic Pictures/Argosy Productions Corporation, 1952.

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It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten, because that history has yet to be enacted.

Walt Whitman

Democratic Vistas

On democracy.

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Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas. Washington D.C.: J. S. Redfield, 1871.

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Whitman, Walt. Democratic Vistas, edited by Ed Folsom. University Of Iowa Press, 2009.

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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

John Stuart Mill

On Liberty

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Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. London: J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 3.

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Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 3.

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We talkin' or we racin'?

Dominic Toretto

Fast Five

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Fast Five. Directed by Justin Lin, Original Film/One Race Films, 2011.

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If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.

Rounders

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Rounders. Directed by John Dahl, Spanky Pictures, 1998.

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Bad, fast! Fast! Fast! Last night I cut the light off in my bedroom, hit the switch, and was in the bed before the room was dark.

Muhammad Ali

When We Were Kings

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When We Were Kings. Directed by Leon Gast, Polygram/Image Entertainment Inc./Gramercy Pictures, 1996.

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My mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on.

Forrest Gump

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Forrest Gump. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, The Tisch Company, 1994.

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When the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.

The Sound of Music

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The Sound of Music. Directed by Robert Wise, Argyle Enterprises, 1965.

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I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says:
"Yes, the little ones does."

Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer Abroad

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Twain, Mark. Tom Sawyer Abroad. New York: Charles L. Webster & Co., 1894.

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Twain, Mark. "Tom Sawyer Abroad." Mark Twain: The Gilded Age & Later Novels, edited by Hamlin Hill. Library of America, 2002.

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I had felt for a long time, that if I was ever told to get up so a white person could sit, that I would refuse to do so.

Rosa Parks

Regarding the day in 1955 on which Ms. Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus for a white man. Widely considered the beginning of the US Civil Rights movement.

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Parks, Rosa. Quoted in Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, written by David Garrow. William Morrow, 1988, ch. 1.

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