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Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life-learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Robert Fulghum

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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

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Fulghum, Robert. "Credo." All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. 1986.

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If we assume that the last breath of, say, Julius Caesar, has by now become thoroughly scattered through the atmosphere, then the chances are that each of us inhales one molecule of it with every breath we take.

James Jeans

An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases

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Jeans, James. An Introduction to the Kinetic Theory of Gases. Cambridge University Press, 1940, ch. 2.

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There can now be no doubt that it is Stalin rather than Hitler, who is the most alarming figure of the twentieth century. I say this-I say this not merely because Stalin killed more people than Hitler-though clearly he did-and not even because of Stalin was more of a psychopath than Hitler-although clearly he was. I say it because Stalin was not a one-off like Hitler, an eruption from nowhere. Stalin stands in a historical tradition of rule by terror which existed before him, which he refined, and which could exist again. His, not Hitler's, is the spectre that should worry us.

Robert Harris

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Archangel

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Harris, Robert. Archangel. Hutchinson, 1998, ch. 11.

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Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

Joseph Welch

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To Joseph McCarthy, on June 9th, 1954, defending the US Army against allegations of subversive activities.

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Welch, Joseph. Quoted in No Sense of Decency, written by Robert Shogun. Ivan R. Dee, 2009, ch. 10. Originally a speech "Have You No Sense of Decency?" Army-McCarthy Hearings. 9 June 1954, Washington, DC, USA.

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Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing

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Shakespeare, William. Much Ado About Nothing. London: Andrew Wise and William Aspley, 1600, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Much Ado About Nothing." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 1.

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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, preface.

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Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass: The Complete 1855 and 1891-2 Editions. Library of America, 2011, preface to 1855 edition.

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My salad days,
When I was green in judgment.

William Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra

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Shakespeare, William. Antony and Cleopatra. King's Men, c. 1607, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 5.

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Shakespeare, William. "Antony and Cleopatra." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 5.

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You only live once, that's the motto nigga YOLO

Drake

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The Motto

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Drake and Lil Wayne and T-Minus. "The Motto." Performed by Drake and Lil Wayne. Take Care. Young Money Entertainment/Cash Money Records/Republic Records, 2011.

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Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet
sorrow
That I shall say “Good night” till it be morrow.

William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 2, sc. 2

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

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Whatever happened to Gary Cooper, the strong silent type?

Tony Soprano

The Sopranos

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"The Strong, Silent Type." The Sopranos, written by David Chase and Terence Winter and Robin Green, directed by Alan Taylor, season 4, episode 10, Chase Films and Home Box Office, 2002.

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My age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty but kindly.

William Shakespeare

As You Like It

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Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

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Hello. My name's Forrest, Forrest Gump.

Forrest Gump

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Forrest Gump. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, The Tisch Company, 1994.

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We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger,
We the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend,
Pioneers! O pioneers!

Walt Whitman

Pioneers! O Pioneers!

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Whitman, Walt. "Pioneers! O Pioneers!" Leaves of Grass. New York: Self-published, 1867, st. 2. Originally published in Drum-Taps. New York: Peter Eckler, 1865, st. 2.

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