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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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Like anybody, I would like to live a long life; longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy tonight, I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I See the Promised Land

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” 3 Apr. 1968, Mason Temple, Memphis, TN, USA.

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Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Jesus

Matthew 22:37-39

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 22:37-39).

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Women always ready to settle down. Shit, a woman goes on four good dates, she's like "Why are we bullshittin'? What are you waiting for?" Men—never ready to settle down. Men don't settle down. We surrender.

Chris Rock

Bring the Pain

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

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The world must be made safe for democracy.

Woodrow Wilson

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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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Cormac McCarthy

No Country for Old Men

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

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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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I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

James Joyce

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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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.

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Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do
What then thou would'st.

John Milton

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Milton, John. "Samson Agonistes." Paradise Regained, A Poem in 4 Books, to which is added Samson Agonistes. London: John Starkey, 1671, I. 1104.

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Milton, John. "Samson Agonistes." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 1104.

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We got some platonic friends. I got some, but they're all by accident. Every platonic friend I got is some woman I was tryin' to fuck, I made a wrong turn somewhere, and ended up in the friend zone.

Chris Rock

Chris Rock: Bring the Pain

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

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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

William James

The Principles of Psychology

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James, William. The Principles of Psychology. Vol. 1, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890, ch. 9.

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Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgement on him.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays

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De Montaigne, Michel. "Par Divers Moyens On Arrive a Pareille Fin [That Men by Various Means Arrive at the Same End]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "We Reach the Same End by Discrepant Means." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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It is not rebellion itself that is noble, but its aims, even though its achievements are at times ignoble.

Albert Camus

The Rebel

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Camus, Albert. L'Homme Revolte [The Rebel]. Gallimard, 1951.

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Cash rules everything around me
C. R. E. A. M., get the money
Dollar dollar bill, y'all

Wu-Tang Clan

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C.R.E.A.M.

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Wu-Tang Clan. "C.R.E.A.M." Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers). Loud Records/RCA Records, 1993.

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Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son.

Darth Vader

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back. Directed by Irvin Kershner, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1980.

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Drug dealers don't sell drugs. Drugs sell themselves. It's crack. It's not an encyclopedia. It's not a fuckin' vacuum cleaner. You don't really gotta try to sell crack, ok? I never heard a crack dealer goin' "Man, how'm I gonna get rid of all this crack?!"

Chris Rock

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

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Now, I have come to the crossroads in my life. I always knew what the right path was. Without exception, I knew. But I never took it. You know why? It was too damn hard.

Al Pacino

Scent of a Woman

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Scent of a Woman. Directed by Martin Brest, City Lights Films, 1992.

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One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Atlantic Monthly

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "Paul Revere's Ride." The Atlantic Monthly, Jan. 1861.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, st. 2.

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