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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "I Have a Dream." March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. 28 Aug. 1963, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, USA.

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 1.

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky.

John Lennon

Imagine

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Lennon, John. "Imagine." Imagine. Apple 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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Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." The Dial, Nov. 1920.

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Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.

Neil Armstrong

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Armstrong, Neil. Spoken on the moon. 20 July 1969.

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Frost, Robert. "The Road Not Taken." Mountain Interval. Henry Holt, 1916, st. 4, I. 3.

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Frost, Robert. "The Road Not Taken." Robert Frost: Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays, edited by Richard Poirier and Mark Richardson. Library of America, 1995, st. 4, I. 3.

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Churchill, Winston. Address in the House of Commons. House of Commons meeting. 11 Nov. 1947, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Dylan, Bob. "The Times They Are a-Changin'." The Times They Are a-Changin'. Columbia Records, 1965.

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Orwell, George. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story. Secker and Warburg, 1945, ch. 10.

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Orwell, George. "As I Please." Tribune, 4 Feb. 1944.

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Orwell, George. "As I Please." The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell, vol. 3: As I Please 1943-1945, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 2004, no 18.

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Eliot, T. S. "The Hollow Men." Poems: 1909-1925. Faber and Gwyer, 1925, pt. 5.

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Eliot, T. S. "The Hollow Men." The Waste Land and Other Poems. Vintage, 2021, pt. 5.

Because it's there.

George Mallory

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Upon being asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest.

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Mallory, George. "Climbing Mount Everest is Work for Supermen." New York Times, 18 Mar. 1923.

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Field, Marshall. "America's Biggest Taxpayer Is a Merchant Prince of Chicago: Leads Country's Big Taxpayers." The Sunday Herald, 3 Sept. 1905, Women's section, p. 10, col. 2.

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

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Ali, Muhammad. Interviewed by Bob Halloran, CBS, c. 25 Feb. 1964.

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Reagan, Ronald. "Tear Down This Wall!" 12 June 1987, Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany.

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Ford, Henry. Interviewed by Charles N. Wheeler. Chicago Tribune, 25 May 1916.

The buck stops here.

Harry Truman

Phrase on a sign on Harry Truman's desk in the White House.

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Truman, Harry S. Sign on Truman's desk during his presidency. c. 1945.

It ain't over till it's over.

Yogi Berra

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Berra, Yogi. Comment on National League pennant race. July 1973, New York, NY, USA.

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Berra, Yogi. The Yogi Book. Workman Publishing Company, 2010, foreword.