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Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

John Major

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Major, John. Interview. The Mail, 21 Feb. 1993.

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It makes no difference who you are, no matter how much training you got and the tougher guy you might be. When you're at the wrong spot at the wrong time, you gonna get it.

The Thin Red Line

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The Thin Red Line. Directed by Terrence Malick, Fox 2000 Pictures/Phoenix Pictures/Geisler-Roberdeau, 1998.

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And I love you. Because I've learned that Platonic love can exist between two grown men.

Wayne's World

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Wayne's World. Directed by Penelope Spheeris, Paramount Pictures, 1992.

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I don't consider myself a pessimist at all. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel completely soaked to the skin.

Leonard Cohen

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Cohen, Leonard. Quoted in "The Joking Troubadour of Gloom." The Daily Telegraph, 26 Apr. 1993.

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Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms, and listening to eight different bosses drone on about mission statements!

Office Space

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Office Space. Directed by Mike Judge, Judgemental Films, 1999.

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Call me crazy, but it is my philosophy that in order to be successful, one must project an image of success, at all times.

American Beauty

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American Beauty. Directed by Sam Mendes, Jinks/Cohen Company, 1999.

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Trickle-down theory—the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Culture of Contentment. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1992, ch. 8.

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Teachers never die. They live in your memory forever. They were there when you arrived, they were there when you left. Like fixtures. Once in a while they taught you something. But not that often. And, you never really knew them, any more than they knew you. Still, for awhile, you believed in them. And-if you were lucky-maybe there was one who believed in you.

The Wonder Years

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"Goodbye." The Wonder Years, written by Neal Marlens and Carol Black and Bob Brush, directed by Michael Dinner, season 3, episode 20, The Black/Marlens Company and New World Television, 1990.

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Museums have today become the new churches.

Christian Boltanski

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Boltanski, Christian. Interview with Tamar Garb. Christian Boltanski. Phaidon Press, 1997, p. 11.

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I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you'll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.

The Shawshank Redemption

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The Shawshank Redemption. Directed by Frank Darabont, Castle Rock Entertainment, 1994.

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Son, in 35 years of religious studies, I’ve come up with only two hard, incontrovertible facts: There is a God, and I’m not him.

Rudy

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Rudy. Directed by David Anspaugh, TriStar Pictures, 1993.

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When it's over I don't want to wonder
If I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

Mary Oliver

When Death Comes

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Oliver, Mary. "When Death Comes." New and Selected Poems. Beacon Press, 1992, I. 24.

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I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out of focus monster, roaming the countryside.

Mitch Hedberg

Strategic Grill Locations

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Hedberg, Mitch. Strategic Grill Locations. 7 Sept. 1999, The Laff Stop Comedy Club, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Don't ever let anyone ever say to you, 'You shouldn't regret anything.' Don't do that, don't! You regret what you fucking want! And use that, use that, use that regret for anything, anyway you want. You can use it, okay?

Magnolia

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Magnolia. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Ghoulardi Film Company/JoAnne Sellar Productions, 1999.

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A sharp distinction between humans and "animals" is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them—without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret... Humans—who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals—have had an understandable penchant for pretending that animals do not feel pain... It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer... The behavior of other animals, especially the chimps and bonobos, renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us.

Carl Sagan

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Sagan, Carl and Ann Druyan. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are. Random House, 1992, ch. 19.

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We're gonna be in college soon. You know who's gonna be in college, right?...Women. College women. Women with no curfew, women on the pill, and women...women, bro. We're staring into the future here and the future is women.

Can't Hardly Wait

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Can't Hardly Wait. Directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, Columbia Pictures/Tall Trees Productions, 1998.

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The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences.

Ming-Dao Deng

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Deng, Ming-Dao. Everyday Tao: Living in Balance and Harmony. HarperOne, 1996.

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It is this ability to bear what is unbearable and to go on living, to go on doing what one is used to doing-it is this uncanny ability that the existence of the human species is based on.

Christa Wolf

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Wolf, Christa. Medea. Janus Press, 1996, ch. 10.

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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new ones rise.

Carl Sagan

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Sagan, Carl and Ann Druyan. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. Random House, 1995, ch. 13.

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I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.

Noam Chomsky

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Chomsky, Noam. "Noam Chomsky on Anarchism, Marxism and Hope for the Future." Interviewed by Kevin Doyle. Red and Black Revolution, May 1995.

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