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Braveheart. Directed by Mel Gibson, Icon Productions/The Ladd Company, 1995.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940, ch. 43.

My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.

Bluto

Animal House

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Animal House. Directed by John Landis, Universal Pictures, 1978.

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Dickens, Charles. "A Tale of Two Cities." London: Chapman & Hall. April-Nov. 1859. Weekly serial.

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Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities, edited by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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"Homer vs. the 18th Amendment." The Simpsons, written by Matt Groening and James L. Brooks and Sam Simon, directed by Bob Anderson, season 8, episode 18, Gracie Films and 20th Century Fox Television, 1997.

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"The Puffy Shirt." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, directed by Tom Cherones, season 5, episode 2, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1993.

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Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937, ch. 3.

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Rush Hour. Directed by Brett Ratner. Roger Birnbaum Productions, 1998.

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Douglass, Frederick. "West India Emancipation." 3 Aug. 1857, Canandaigua, NY, USA.

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Locke, John. "Second Treatise of Civil Government." Two Treatises of Government. London: Awnsham Churchill, 1690, ch. 18, sect. 202.

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Locke, John. Second Treatise of Civil Government, edited by C. B. Macpherson. Hackett Publishing Company, 1980, ch. 18, sect. 202.

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Madison, James [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 51, The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks and Balances Between the Different Departments." New York Packet, 8 Feb. 1788.

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Madison, James. "No. 51: How to maintain: make the parts check each other. Also, a federal system divides power further.--Madison (or Hamilton)." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Marquis de Lafayette. 26 Dec. 1820.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, ch. 9.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

John Lennon

Give Peace a Chance

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Lennon, John and Paul McCartney. Give Peace a Chance. Performed by Plastic Ono Band. Apple Records, 1969.

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1753.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard Improved." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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"Over the Rainbow." The Wizard of Oz. Directed by Victor Fleming, performed by Judy Garland, composed by Harold Arlen, lyrics by Harburg, Edgar Yipsel "Yip." Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1736.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1736." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1750.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard Improved." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 3, ch. 3.

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Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. George Allen & Unwin, 1954, ch. 10.