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The Wizard of Oz. Directed by Victor Fleming. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

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Dead Poets Society. Directed by Peter Weir, Touchstone Pictures/Silver Screen Partners IV, 1989.

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Pope, Alexander, [published anonymously]. "An Essay on Criticism." London: W. Lewis, 1711, pt. 2, l. 626.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Criticism." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 2, I. 626.

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Adams, John. Letter to Hezekiah Niles. 13 Feb. 1818.

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“From John Adams to Hezekiah Niles, 13 February 1818,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-6854.

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Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

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Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Churchill, Winston. "The Few." House of Commons meeting. 20 Aug. 1940, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Address.

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Churchill, Winston. "The Battle of Britain: 'The Few'." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.

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Franklin, Benjamin. Letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy. 13 Nov. 1789.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech at a County Meeting of Buckinghamshire." 1784, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.

I was born by the river
In a little tent
And just like the river
I've been runnin' ever since
It's been a long, a long time comin'
But I know a change gon' come.

Sam Cooke

A Change Is Gonna Come

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Cooke, Sam. "A Change Is Gonna Come." Ain't That Good News. RCA Victor, 1964.

If you build it, he will come.

Shoeless Joe Jackson

Field of Dreams

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Field of Dreams. Directed by Phil Alden Robinson, Gordon Company, 1989.

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The Social Network. Directed by David Fincher. Columbia Pictures/Relativity Media/Scott Rudin Productions/Michael De Luca Productions/Trigger Street Productions, 2010.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with America." House of Commons. 22 Mar. 1775, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

Follow the yellow brick road.

The Munchkins

The Wizard of Oz

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"Follow the Yellow Brick Road/You're Off to See the Wizard." The Wizard of Oz. Directed by Victor Fleming, composed by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Harburg, Edgar Yipsel "Yip." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

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Rogers, Fred. Commencement address to the Dartmouth Class of 2002. Commencement cermony. 2002, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1866, ch. 5.

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Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical, edited by Lynda Mugglestone. Penguin Classics, 1995, ch. 5.

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Orwell, George. "The Freedom of Press." Times Literary Supplement. News UK, 15 Sept. 1972.

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Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, 1599, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2 sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Julius Caesar." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 2.

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Nin, Anaïs. "June, 1941." The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 3, 1939-1944, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1969.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Marble Faun

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni. Vol. 2, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860, ch. 24.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun, edited by Susan Manning. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 24.