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Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and, however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 22.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 22.

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I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Vol. 3, London: Thomas Egerton, 1813, ch. 18.

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Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Penguin Books, 2002, ch. 18.

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Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

Taxi Driver

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Taxi Driver. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Bill/Phillips Productions/Italo/Judeo Productions, 1976.

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I think I could turn and live ahile with te animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd,
I stand and look at them sometimes half the day long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied...not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or industrious over the whole earth.

Walt Whitman

Song of Myself

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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.

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Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 32.

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I don’t know if we each have a destiny, or if we’re all just floatin’ around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it’s both. Maybe both get happening at the same time.

Forrest Gump

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

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No hour is ever eternity, but it has its right to weep.

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937, ch. 19.

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Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

John F. Kennedy

Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy

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Kennedy, John F. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1961, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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By avarice and selfishness, and a grovelling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property...the landscape is deformed.

Henry David Thoreau

Walden

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Thoreau, Henry David. "The Bean-Field." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "The Bean-Field." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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We all end up dead, it's just a question of how and why.

William Wallace

Braveheart

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Braveheart. Directed by Mel Gibson, Icon Productions/The Ladd Company, 1995.

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Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.

Ron Burgundy

Anchorman

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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Directed by Adam McKay, Apatow Productions, 2004.

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How wonderful life is while you're in the world.

Elton John

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Your Song

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John, Elton and Bernie Taupin. "Your Song." Performed by Elton John. Elton John. Uni Records/DJM Records, 1970.

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The Horse thinks one thing, and he that saddles him another.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1754.

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

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Creditors have better memories than Debtors.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1736.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1736." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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To my wife and all my sweethearts. May they never meet.

Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood

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Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Directed by Quentin Tarantino, Columbia Pictures/Bona Film Group/Heyday Films/Visiona Romantica, 2019.

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True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

Nelson Mandela

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Mandela, Nelson. 7 Jan. 1996. Speech.

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All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.

William Shakespeare

As You Like It

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Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 7.

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Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 7.

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Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

Alice Walker

The Color Purple

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Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

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To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf.

Training Day

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Training Day. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, Village Roadshow Pictures/Outlaw Productions, 2001.

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All I’m offering is the truth. Nothing more.

Morpheus

The Matrix

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The Matrix. Directed by The Wachowskis. Warner Bros./Village Roadshow Pictures/Groucho II Film Partnership/Silver Pictures, 1999.

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How you doin’?

Joey Tribbiani

Friends

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"The One with Rachel's Crush." Friends, written by David Crane and Marta Kauffman and and Shana Goldberg-Meehan, directed by Dana De Vally Piazza, season 4, episode 13, Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions and Warner Bros. Television, 1998.

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