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The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Directed by Judd Apatow, Apatow Productions, 2005.

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

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Circles (1841)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Dickens, Charles. "Our Mutual Friend." All the Year Round. London: Chapman and Hall, May 1865, pt. 13, bk. 3, ch. 10.

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Dickens, Charles. Our Mutual Friend, edited by Adrian Poole. Penguin, 1998, bk. 3, ch. 10.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to John Adams. 28 Oct. 1813.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "John Adams, Oct. 28, 1813." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence & His Public and Private Letters, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

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Eliot, George. Daniel Deronda. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1876, bk. 3, ch. 24.

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Eliot, George. Daniel Deronda. Oxford University Press, 2014, bk. 3, ch. 24.

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Jagger, Mick and Keith Richards. "Wild Horses." Performed by The Flying Burrito Brothers. Burrito Deluxe. A&M Records, 1970.

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Blake, William. Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion. London, c. 1820, ch. 4, plate 91, l. 1.

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Blake, William. "Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. University of California Press, 2008, ch. 4, plate 91, l. 1.

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"Lose Yourself." 8 Mile. Directed by Curtis Hanson, performed by Eminem, Universal Pictures, 2002.

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Elf. Directed by Jon Favreau. New Line Cinema/Guy Walks Into a Bar Productions, 2003.

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Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

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Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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When We Were Kings. Directed by Leon Gast. Performed by Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. Gramercy Pictures, Jan. 1996. Originally a press conference at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. 17 Sept. 1974, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, NY, USA.

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Point Break. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Johnny Utah Productions/Largo Entertainment, 1991.

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Rushdie, Salman. "The Empire Writes Back with a Vengeance." Times, 3 July 1982.

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Twain, Mark. A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1889, ch. 20.

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Twain, Mark. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, edited by Henry B. Wonham. W. W. Norton & Company, 2018, ch. 20.

Father, father
We don't need to escalate
You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate.

Marvin Gaye

What's Going On

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Gaye, Marvin. "What's Going On." Written by Al Cleveland and Renaldo Benson and Marvin Gaye. What's Going On. Tamla Records, 1971.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1933, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. "First Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, March 4, 1933." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

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Hume, David, [published anonymously]. "Of Suicide." Essays on Suicide and The Immortality of the Soul, Ascribed to the Late David Hume, Esq. Unknown Publisher, 1777.

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Hume, David. "Of Suicide." Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary: Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Tom L. Beauchamp and Mark A Box. Oxford University Press, 2022, pt. 3, no. 9.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Apology for Printers," The Pennsylvania Gazette, 10 June 1731.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Apology for Printers." Benjamin Franklin: Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body and Early Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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Wilde, Oscar [Published as C.3.3.]. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. London: Leonard Smithers, 1898, pt. 1, st. 3.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Ballad of Reading Gaol." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.

The Dude abides.

The Dude

The Big Lebowski

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The Big Lebowski. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Working Title Films, 1998.