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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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

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I don't like gentlemen who grin at me.

Notorious

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Notorious. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, RKO Pictures/Vanguard Films, 1946.

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I love you so much and I hate this war so much.

Casablanca

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Casablanca. Directed by Michael Curtiz, Warner Bros. Pictures, 1942.

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"If there is hope," he had written in the diary, "it lies in the proles."

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 8.

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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 3, ch. 2.

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Go ahead and shoot. You'll be doing me a favor.

Rick Blaine

Casablanca

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Casablanca. Directed by Michael Curtiz, Warner Bros. Pictures, 1942.

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DOUBLETHINK means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 2, ch. 9.

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For poems are like rainbows: they escape you quickly.

Langston Hughes

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Hughes, Langston. "I've Known Rivers." The Big Sea. Alfred A. Knopf, 1940.

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Waving the flag with one hand and picking pockets with the other, that's your "patriotism."

Notorious

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Notorious. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, RKO Pictures/Vanguard Films, 1946.

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Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.

George Orwell

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Orwell, George. Review of Letters From India, by Mulk Raj Anand. Tribune, 19 Mar. 1943.

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Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whisky. Whiskey is a slap on the back and champagne's heavy mist before my eyes.

The Philadelphia Story

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The Philadelphia Story. Directed by George Cukor, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1940.

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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. Conference in New York City. Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life. 9 Sept. 1940-11 Sept. 1940, New York City, NY, USA.

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We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Amen.

Red River

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Red River. Directed by Howard Hawks, Monterey Productions, 1948.

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We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.

Winston Churchill

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Churchill, Winston. Speech on plans for the rebuilding of the Chamber. House of Commons meeting. 28 Oct. 1943, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Address.

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Churchill, Winston. "A sense of crowd and urgency', 28 October 1943, House of Commons." Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches. Hyperion, 2005.

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Mary, I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day, and next year, and the year after that. I'm shakin' the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I'm gonna see the world.

It's a Wonderful Life

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It's a Wonderful Life. Directed by Frank Capra, Liberty Films, 1946.

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Doesn't it bother you at all that you're married?

Gilda

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

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There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dust Tracks on a Road

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Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942, ch. 11.

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By comparison with that existing today, all the tyrannies of the past were half-hearted and inefficient. The ruling groups were always infected to some extent by liberal ideas, and were content to leave loose ends everywhere, to regard only the overt act and to be uninterested in what their subjects were thinking.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 2, ch. 9.

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Poverty anywhere constitutes a danger to prosperity everywhere.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Address to Conference of International Labor Organization. Conference of International Labor Organization. 17 May 1944, Washington, DC, USA.

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