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The priest persuades humble people to endure their hard lot; the politician urges them to rebel against it; and the scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.

Max Perutz

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Perutz, Max. Is Science Necessary? Essays on Science and Scientists. E.P. Dutton, 1989.

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Slowly the reality of it all formed in my mind: we were expendable! It was difficult to accept. We come from a nature and a culture that values life and the individual. To find oneself in a situation where your life seems of little value is the ultimate in loneliness. It is a humbling experience.

Eugene Sledge

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Sledge, Eugene B., Jr. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa. Presidio Press, 1981, pt. 1, ch. 4.

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Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

Bruno Bettelheim

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Bettelheim, Bruno. A Good Enough Parent: A Book on Child-Rearing. Alfred A. Knopf, 1987, ch. 9.

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No set of legal institutions or prescriptions exists apart from the narratives that locate it and give it meaning. For every constitution, there is an epic, for each decalogue a scripture. Once understood in the context of the narratives that give it meaning, law becomes not merely a system of rules to be observed, but a world in which we live.

Robert M. Cover

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Nomos and Narrative

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Cover, Robert M. "Foreword: Nomos and Narrative." Harvard Law Review, Nov. 1983. Originally a foreword to the Supreme Court 1982 term.

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To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world-and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.

Marshall Berman

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Berman, Marshall. All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. Simon and Schuster, 1982, introduction.

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Although he is regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics, and in America disagreement with the policies of the government is not evidence of lack of patriotism.

George Mitchell

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Mitchell, George. Statement at Senate Hearings on Iran-Contra scandal. Senate Hearing on Iran-Contra scandal. 13 July 1987, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Mitchell, George. The Negotiator: A Memoir. Simon and Schuster, 2016.

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70% of all archeology is done in the library. Researching. Reading. We cannot afford to take mythology at face value.

Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Lucasfilm Ltd., 1989.

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Once you find the truth you ought to be prepared to stand on the street corner and use all your gifts to right the wrong.

Maya Angelou

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Angelou, Maya. "The West Interview: Maya Angelou." Interviewed by Sal Manna. San Jose Mercury News, 22 June 1986.

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With the right footwear one can rule the world.

Bette Midler

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Midler, Bette. "Ask Them Yourself: Question for Bette Midler." Trenton Evening Times, Section: Family Weekly (Newspaper Supplement), 13 Jan. 1980.

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I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write.

Toni Morrison

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Morrison, Toni. "The Language Must Not Sweat." Interviewed by Thomas LeClair. The New Republic, 21 Mar. 1981.

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It is the most violent people who go for love and peace.

John Lennon

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Lennon, John. "Playboy Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono." Interviewed by David Sheff. Playboy, Jan. 1981.

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Archaeology is the search for fact...not truth. If it's truth you're interested in, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall. So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel, and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and "X" never, ever marks the spot.

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Lucasfilm Ltd., 1989.

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Now, you’ll hurt me if you don’t trust me, all right?

Dirty Dancing

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Dirty Dancing. Directed by Emile Ardolino, Great American Films Limited Partnership, 1987.

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An army that carries the ark before it, is invincible.

Raiders of the Lost Ark

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Raiders of the Lost Ark. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Lucasfilm Ltd., 1981.

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Being blonde is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blonde has some incredible sort of sexual connotation.

Madonna

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Madonna. "Madonna: The Rolling Stone Interview." Interviewed by Bill Zehme. Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 1989.

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My reputation precedes me.

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Lucasfilm Ltd., 1989.

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I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

Ronald Reagan

1984 Presidential Debates

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Reagan, Ronald. "The Second Reagan-Mondale Presidential Debate." 21 Oct. 1984, Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, MO, USA. Presidential debate.

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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

Truman Capote

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Capote, Truman. Conversations with Truman Capote, written by Lawrence Grobel. Dutton, 1985. Originally an interview with Lawrence Grobel, c. 1985.

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A good collaboration produces universal thinking.

Robert Rauschenberg

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Rauschenberg, Robert. Quoted in Rauschenberg, by Barbara Rose. Vintage Books/Elizabeth Avedon Editions, 1987, p. 85.

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Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: "We the People." "We the People" tell the government what to do; it doesn't tell us."We the People" are the driver; the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which "We the People" tell the government what it is allowed to do."We the People" are free.

Ronald Reagan

1989 Farewell Address

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Reagan, Ronald. "Farewell Address to the Nation." 11 Jan. 1989, Oval Office, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

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