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The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

W.B. Yeats

The Second Coming

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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.

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Well-behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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Thatcher Ulrich, Laurel. "Vertuous Women Found: New England Ministerial Literature, 1668-1735." American Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 1.

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

The Life of Reason

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Santayana, George. The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, edited by Marianne S. Wokeck and Martin A. Coleman. Vol. 7, The MIT Press, 2011, bk. 1, ch. 12. Originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905

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Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. "Day of Infamy." US Congress meeting. 8 Dec. 1941, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Niebuhr, Reinhold. Diary entry. 1932.

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There's no place like home.

Dorothy Gale

The Wizard of Oz

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The Wizard of Oz. Directed by Victor Fleming. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

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I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

Don Vito Corleone

The Godfather

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The Godfather. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Paramount Pictures/Alfran Productions, 1972.

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You can't handle the truth!

Col. Nathan R. Jessep

A Few Good Men

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A Few Good Men. Directed by Rob Reiner, Castle Rock Entertainment, 1992.

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.

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I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low; the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream

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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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Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Rhett Butler

Gone with the Wind

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Gone with the Wind. Directed by Victor Fleming. Selznick International Pictures/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

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I am condemned to be free.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Being and Nothingness

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Sartre, Jean Paul. Le etre et le neant: Essai d'ontologie phenomenologique [Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology]. Librairie Gallimard, 1943, pt. 4, ch. 1.

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Sartre, Jean Paul. Being and Nothingness, translated by Sarah Richmond. Washington Square Press, 2021, pt. 4, ch. 1.

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Everybody has plans until they get hit for the first time.

Mike Tyson

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Commonly (and more satisfyingly) rendered as "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."

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Tyson, Mike. "Tall Man Tyrell Biggs Thinks His Height will Add New Dimension to Oct. 16 Fight." Interviewed by Rick Warner. The Times and Democrat, 19 Aug. 1987.

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