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If it wasn't for bad luck
You know, I wouldn't have no luck at all

Albert King

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Born Under a Bad Sign

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Bell, William. "Born Under a Bad Sign." Composed by Booker T. Jones. Performed by Albert King. Born Under a Bad Sign. Stax Records, 1967.

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You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows.

Bob Dylan

Subterranean Homesick Blues

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Dylan, Bob. Subterranean Homesick Blues. Columbia Records, 1965.

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The taste of love is sweet when hearts like ours meet.

Johnny Cash

Ring of Fire

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Cash, June Carter and Merle Kilgore. "Ring of Fire." Performed by Johnny Cash. Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash. Columbia Nashville, 1963.

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Life is a gamble at terrible odds-if it was a bet, you wouldn't take it.

Tom Stoppard

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. 24 Aug. 1966, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 3.

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Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Grove Press, 2017, act 3.

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Routine is a condition of survival.

Flannery O'Connor

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O'Connor, Flannery. The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988, pt. 3. Originally a letter to A, 10 Feb. 1962.

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None of you ask for anything-except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

Doris Lessing

The Golden Notebook

On men.

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Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook. Michael Joseph, 1962.

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Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them.

Frantz Fanon

The Wretched of the Earth

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Fanon, Frantz. Les Damnes de la Terre [The Wretched of the Earth]. Francois Maspero, 1961, conclusion.

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Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, I get high with a little help from my friends.

The Beatles

With a Little Help From My Friends

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Lennon, John and Paul McCartney. "With a Little Help From My Friends." Performed by The Beatles. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Parlophone Records/Capitol Records, 1967.

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I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system-that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1960, ch. 20.

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Magnificent desolation.

Buzz Aldrin

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Aldrin, Edward Eugene, Jr. "Buzz." Spoken on the moon. 20 July 1969.

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Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

James Baldwin

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Baldwin, James. "Fifth Avenue, Uptown; A Letter from Harlem." Esquire, July 1960.

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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.

Sylvia Plath

The Bell Jar

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Plath, Sylvia [published as Victoria Lucas]. The Bell Jar. William Heinemann, 1963.

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I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. Speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. 10 Dec. 1964, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip, and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war.

Barbara W. Tuchman

The Guns of August

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Tuchman, Barbara W. The Guns of August. Macmillan, 1962, ch. 2.

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All men lose when they die and all men die. But a slave and a free man lose different things.

Spartacus

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Spartacus. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Bryna Productions, 1960.

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No. The question isn't indiscreet, but the answer could be.

For a Few Dollars More

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For a Few Dollars More. Directed by Sergio Leone, Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA)/Arturo González Producciones Cinematográficas/Constantin Film, 1965.

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