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Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 13.

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But I am gonna ask you questions and every time you don't give me answers, I'm gonna cut something off and I promise you, they will be things you will miss! Give me your other arm!

Kill Bill: Volume 1

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Kill Bill: Volume 1. Directed by Quentin Tarantino. A Band Apart, 2003.

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We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.

Sandra Day O'Connor

Grutter v. Bollinger

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O'Connor, Sandra Day. United States, Supreme Court. Grutter v. Bollinger. United States Reports, vol. 539, 23 June 2003, pp. 306-395. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/539/306/.

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You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.

Rahm Emanuel

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Emanuel, Rahm. Quoted in "In Crisis, Opportunity for Obama." Written by Gerald F. Seib. Wall Street Journal, 21 Nov. 2008.

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If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

John Green

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Green, John. Looking for Alaska. Dutton Juvenile, 2005.

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For the sublime and the beautiful and interesting, you don't have to look far away.

Hedda Sterne

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Sterne, Hedda. "Hedda Sterne." Interviewed by Joan Simon. Art in America, Feb. 2007, www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/magazine/hedda-sterne

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Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe.

David Foster Wallace

2005 Kenyon College commencement address

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Wallace, David Foster. Commencement address at Kenyon College. Commencement. 21 May 2005, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, USA.

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Wallace, David Foster. This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion about Living a Compassionate Life. Little, Brown and Company, 2009.

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If in some distant place in the future we see each other in our new lives, I'll smile at you with joy, and remember how we spent a summer beneath the trees, learning from each other and growing in love.

The Notebook

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The Notebook. Directed by Nick Cassavetes, Gran Via, 2004.

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I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you had ever done.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 39.

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I am sorry if anyone was offended by the wardrobe malfunction during the halftime performance at the Super Bowl. It was not intentional and is regrettable.

Justin Timberlake

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Timberlake, Justin. Apology for Superbowl halftime show incident. 2 Feb. 2004. Houston, TX, USA.

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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Calvin Coolidge

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Coolidge, Calvin. In conversation with Herbert Hoover. c. 1930.

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Coolidge, Calvin. Quoted in Coolidge: An American Enigma, written by Robert Sobel. Regnery History, 2000.

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Deep within us—no matter who we are—there lives a feeling of wanting to be lovable, of wanting to be the kind of person that others like to be with. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 52.

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It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 174.

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Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and then the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I'm one of the few people that believes it was the blacks.

Sarah Silverman

Jesus is Magic

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Jesus is Magic. Directed by Liam Lynch, performed by Sarah Silverman, Roadside Attractions, 2005.

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What are you gonna do? Tell on me? You know you can't, buddy. It's guy code, ok? Guy's don't tell on other guys, that's something chicks do. You're not a chick, are you? Alright. Good talk. I'll see you out there.

Old School

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Old School. Directed by Todd Phillips, The Montecito Picture Company, 2003.

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Well, I can tell you about the river
Or we could just get in.

Bill Callahan

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From the Rivers to the Ocean

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Callahan, Bill. "From the Rivers to the Ocean." Woke on a Whaleheart. Drag City, 2007.

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How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.

Jonathan Franzen

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Franzen, Jonathan. The Corrections. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

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When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong along with the fearful, the true mixed in with the facade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 95.

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I am no one special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect, I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived. I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and for me, that has always been enough.

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The Notebook. Directed by Nick Cassavetes, Gran Via, 2004.

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The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate, it's the sand of the Coliseum. He'll bring them death—and they will love him for it.

Gladiator

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Gladiator. Directed by Ridley Scott. DreamWorks Pictures/ Scott Free Productions/Universal Pictures/Red Wagon Entertainment, 2000.

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