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Kennedy, John F. Special Message to Congress on Urgent National Needs. 25 May 1961, U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Goldwater, Barry. Remarks announcing candidacy for the republican presidential nomination. 3 Jan. 1964, Paradise City, AZ, USA. News conference.

I fought the law, and the law won.

The Crickets

I Fought the Law

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Curtis, Sonny. "I Fought the Law." Performed by The Crickets. In Style With the Crickets. Coral Records, 1960.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Beatrice Potter Webb

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Webb, Beatrice Potter. My Apprenticeship. Cambridge University Press, 1979, ch. 2. Originally published by Longmans, Green and Co., 1926, ch. 2.

Show me a good loser and I will show you a failure.

Knute Rockne

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Rockne, Knute. Quoted in Washington Post. 15 Aug. 1943.

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Thatcher, Margaret. "No Such Thing as Society." Interviewed by Douglas Keay. Woman's Own, 23 Sept. 1987.

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Barrie, James M. Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. Performed by Gerald du Maurier, Nina Boucicault, Joan Burnett, Christine Silver, A.W. Baskcomb, and Alice DuBarry. 27 Dec. 1904, Duke of York's Theatre, Westminster, London, England, UK, act 3.

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Barrie, James M. Peter Pan. Reader's Library Classics, 2022, ch. 8.

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Reagan, Ronald. Remarks to state chairs in Washington, DC. National White House Conference on Small Business. 15 Aug. 1986, Old Executive Office Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Glengarry Glen Ross. Directed by James Foley, Zupnik Enterprises, 1992.

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Tuchman, Barbara W. Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45. Macmillan, 1972, ch. 8.

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Foucault, Michel. Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison [Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison]. Gallimard, 1975.

A minimum of comfort is necessary for the practice of virtue.

Patrice Lumumba

Congo, My Country

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Lumumba, Patrice. Congo, My Country. Praeger, 1962, ch. 3.

If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Longworth, Alice Roosevelt. Embroidered on a pillow in her sitting room. c. 1980.

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Freud, Sigmund. "Eine Kindheitserinnerung aus 'Dichtung und Wahrheit [A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung und Warheit [Poetry and Truth].'" Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften [Journal of the Application of Psychoanalysis to the Humanities]. Vol. 5, 1917, pp. 49–57.

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Freud, Sigmund. "A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung Und Wahrheit.'" The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works, translated by James Strachey. Vol. 17, Vintage, 2001.

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Maclean, Norman. "A River Runs Through it." A River Runs Through It and Other Stories. University of Chicago Press, 1976.

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Ford, Gerald. Remarks in the U.S. House of Representatives in an effort to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. House of Representatives meeting. 15 Apr. 1970, House of Representatives Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Arendt, Hanna. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Viking Press, 1963. Originally published by The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 1963.

This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.

Vine Deloria, Jr.

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Deloria, Vine, Jr. "This Country Was a Lot Better Off When the Indians Were Running It." The New York Times, 8 Mar. 1970.

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Auden, W. H. "Herman Melville." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "Citizenship in a Republic." 23 Apr. 1910, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "Citizenship in a Republic." Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.: Letters and Speeches, edited by Louis Auchincloss. Library of America, 2004.