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When Harry Met Sally... Directed by Rob Reiner, Nelson Entertainment/Castle Rock Entertainment, 1989.

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Churchill, Winston. "We Shall Fight on the Beaches." House of Commons meeting. 4 June 1940, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Address.

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Churchill, Winston. "Dunkirk: Wars Are Not Won by Evacuations." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.

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Eliot, T. S. The Rock. 1934, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, England, UK, pt. 1.

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McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House, 1985, ch. 5.

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Marthe Troly-Curtin

Phrynette Married

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Troly-Curtin, Marthe. Phrynette Married. The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1912.

What did the president know and when did he know it?

Howard H. Baker, Jr.

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Baker, Howard, Jr. Spoken at Senate Watergate Committee hearings. Senate Watergate Committee hearings. 25 June 1973, United States Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

You may keep one of your children. The other one must go.

Sophie's Choice

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Sophie's Choice. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, Keith Barish Productions/ITC Entertainment, 1982.

There's no business like show business.

Irving Berlin

There's No Business Like Show Business

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Berlin, Irving. "There's No Business Like Show Business." Annie Get Your Gun. Performed by Ethel Merman. 1946, Imperial Theatre, New York City, NY, USA, act 1.

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Directed by John Hughes. Paramount Pictures, 1986.

Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends.

Francis Bacon (Irish painter)

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English drinking toast saying. c. 1500.

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Stand By Me. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Productions, 1986.

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Churchill, Winston. "Their Finest Hour." House of Commons meeting. 18 June 1940, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Address.

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Churchill, Winston. "Alone: Their Finest Hour." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.

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Adams, Douglas. "Fit the Fourth." The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Primary Phase. BBC Radio 4, London, England, UK, 29 Mar. 1978.

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Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pan Books, 1979, ch. 31.

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Trotsky, Leon. История русской революции [History of the Russian Revolution]. Vol. 2, H. Atkinson, 1933.

Our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men.

Gerald Ford

On being sworn in as President following the Watergate scandal and Richard Nixon's resignation.

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Ford, Gerald. Remarks on taking the oath of office. 9 Aug. 1974, East Room, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

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Keynes, John Maynard. A Tract on Monetary Reform. MacMillan and Co., 1924, p. 80.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923)." The Essential Keynes, edited by Robert Skidelsky. Penguin, 2016.

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Beckett, Samuel. "Worstward Ho!" Nohow On. The Limited Editions Club, 1989.

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Valéry, Paul. Quoted in Robert Irwin: A Way to Look at Things by Not Forgetting Their Names, written by Adrian Kohn. c. 1982.

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

Edward R. Murrow

Said on his TV program "See it Now" as a challenge to Senator Joseph McCarthy's attempts to quash "communist" enemies.

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Murrow, Edward R. Tonight See It Now. CBS, 9 Mar. 1954.

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Eliot, T. S. The Rock. 1934, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, England, UK, pt. 1.