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Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.

Alasdair Gray

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Gray, Alasdair. Engraved in the Canongate Wall of the Scottish Parliament Building. Edinburgh, Scotland. 2004.

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This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

Marilynne Robinson

Gilead

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Robinson, Marilynne. Gilead. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

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In my judgment, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.

Alberto Gonzales

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On the war on terrorism.

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Gonzales, Alberto R. Memorandum to George W. Bush. 25 Jan. 2002.

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The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

Sarah Palin

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Palin, Sarah. Urging her supporters to oppose Democratic plans for health care reform. Facebook, 7 Aug. 2009.

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We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

W.G. Sebald

Austerlitz

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Sebald, Winfried Georg. Austerlitz. C. Hanser, 2001.

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Chivalry is dead. And women killed it.

Dave Chappelle

Killin' Them Softly

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Chappelle, Dave. Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly. HBO, 26 July 2000.

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This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law.

Remember the Titans

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Remember the Titans. Directed by Boaz Yakin, Technical Black Films/Jerry Bruckheimer Films/Walt Disney Pictures, 2000.

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I do hate myself but it has nothing to do with being Jewish.

Larry David

Curb Your Enthusiasm

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"Trick or Treat." Curb Your Enthusiasm, written by Larry David, directed by Larry Charles, season 2, episode 3, Home Box Office, 2001.

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More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

Tony Soprano

The Sopranos

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"Whitecaps." The Sopranos, written by David Chase and Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, directed by John Patterson, season 4, episode 13, Chase Films and Home Box Office, 2002.

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Those who want respect, give respect.

Tony Soprano

The Sopranos

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"The Knight in White Satin Armor." The Sopranos, written by David Chase and Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, directed by Allen Coulter, season 2, episode 12, Chase Films and Home Box Office, 2000.

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It's not what you know, it's what you can prove.

Training Day

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Training Day. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, Village Roadshow Pictures/Outlaw Productions, 2001.

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Do you respect wood, Susie?

Larry David

Curb Your Enthusiasm

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"Seinfeld." Curb Your Enthusiasm, written by Larry David, directed by Jeff Schaffer and Andy Ackerman, season 7, episode 10, Home Box Office, 2009.

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Everybody needs a co-pilot.

Up in the Air

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Up in the Air. Directed by Jason Reitman, DreamWorks Pictures/The Montecito Picture Company/Cold Spring Pictures/Rickshaw Productions/Right of Way Films, 2009.

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You don’t own a TV? What’s all your furniture pointed at?

Joey Tribbiani

Friends

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"The One in Barbados." Friends, written by David Crane and Marta Kauffman and Shana Goldberg-Meehan, directed by Kevin Bright, season 9, episode 23, Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions and Warner Bros. Television, 2003.

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I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.

Ron Burgundy

Anchorman

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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Directed by Adam McKay, Apatow Productions, 2004.

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Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.

Ron Burgundy

Anchorman

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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Directed by Adam McKay, Apatow Productions, 2004.

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To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf.

Training Day

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Training Day. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, Village Roadshow Pictures/Outlaw Productions, 2001.

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People see only what you allow them to see.

Dr. Jennifer Melfi

The Sopranos

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"Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." The Sopranos, written by David Chase and Terence Winter, directed by Steve Buscemi, season 6, episode 5, Chase Films and Home Box Office, 2006.

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Get off my lawn!

Gran Torino

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Gran Torino. Directed by Clint Eastwood, Double Nickel Entertainment/Malpaso Productions/Village Roadshow Pictures, 2008.

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And I look at you, and I...I'm home.

Finding Nemo

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Finding Nemo. Directed by Andrew Stanton, Pixar Animation Studios/ Walt Disney Pictures, 2003.

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