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If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell

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Orwell, George. "The Freedom of Press." Times Literary Supplement. News UK, 15 Sept. 1972.

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anaïs Nin

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Nin, Anaïs. "June, 1941." The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 3, 1939-1944, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1969.

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If he had lost Walter Cronkite he had lost Mr. Average Citizen.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Johnson, Lyndon B. Comment to his press secretary George Christian. 27 Feb. 1968, Washington, DC, USA.

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Johnson, Lyndon B. Quoted in The Powers That Be, by David Halberstam. University of Illinois Press, 2000, pt. 3.

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Talk or dance, but, don't do both things at the same time.

Gilda

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Gilda. Directed by Charles Vidor, Columbia Pictures, 1946.

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Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita

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Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita. Olympia Press, 1955, ch. 1.

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The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

Dead Poets Society

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Dead Poets Society. Directed by Peter Weir, Touchstone Pictures/Silver Screen Partners IV, 1989.

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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Winston Churchill

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Churchill, Winston. "Sinews of Peace." 5 Mar. 1946, Westminster College, Fulton, MO, USA. Speech.

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Churchill, Winston. "The Soviet Danger: The Iron Curtain." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.

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This right of privacy...is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

Byron White

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White, Byron. United States, Supreme Court. Roe v. Wade. United States Reports, vol. 410, 22 Jan. 1973, pp. 113-. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/410/113/.

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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Franz Kafka

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Kafka, Franz. Letter to Oskar Pollak. 27 Jan. 1904.

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Kafka, Franz. Franz Kafka: Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors, translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Schocken, 1990.

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I see dead people.

The Sixth Sense

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The Sixth Sense. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Hollywood Pictures/The Kennedy/Marshall Company/Spyglass Entertainment/Barry Mendel Productions, 1999.

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E.T. Phone home.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment, 1982.

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I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

Apocalypse Now

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Apocolypse Now. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Omni Zoetrope, 1979.

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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

First Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1953, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The past is never dead. It's not even past.

William Faulkner

Requiem for a Nun

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Faulkner, William. Requiem for a Nun. Random House, 1951.

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Faulkner, William. Requiem for a Nun. Vintage, 2012.

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I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain.

Singin' in the Rain

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"Singin' in the Rain." Singin' in the Rain. Directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, performed by Gene Kelly, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1952.

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Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Woody Allen

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Allen, Woody. Quoted in "He's Woody Allen's 1‐1‐Silent Partner." Written by Susan Braudy. The New York Times, 21 Aug. 1977.

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Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

Politics and the English Language

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Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." Horizon, Apr. 1946, vol. 13, issue 76, pp. 252-265.

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Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 4: In Front of Your Nose 1945-1950, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 1999, no. 38.

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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

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Dillard, Annie. The Writing Life. Harper & Row, 1989.

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The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.

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The Usual Suspects

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The Usual Suspects. Directed by Bryan Singer. Bad Hat Harry Productions/Gramercy Pictures/PolyGram Filmed Entertainment/Spelling Television/Blue Parrot Productions, 1995.