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I wear the chain I forged in life.

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol

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Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843, stave 1.

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Dickens, Charles. "A Christmas Carol." A Christmas Carol and Other Writings, edited by Michael Slater. Penguin, 2003, stave 1.

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Brothers, what we do in life...echoes in eternity.

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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We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar... Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

William James

The Principles of Psychology

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James, William. The Principles of Psychology. Vol. 1, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890, ch. 4.

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Some mistakes I guess we never stop paying for.

The Natural

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The Natural. Directed by Barry Levinson, Delphi II Productions, 1984.

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Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

Apostle Paul

Galatians 6:7

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Galatians 6:7).

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What's done cannot be undone.

William Shakespeare

Macbeth

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Shakespeare, William. "Macbeth." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 5, sc. 1.

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

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There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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Ingersoll, Robert Green. "The Christian Religion." The North American Review, Aug. 1881.

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Beware of little Expences: a small leak will sink a great Ship.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1745.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1745." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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No matter how much you change, you still have to pay the price for the things you've done.

The Town

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The Town. Directed by Ben Affleck, Legendary Pictures/GK Films/Thunder Road Pictures, 2010.

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Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience.

Federalist 15

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Hamilton, Alexander [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 15: The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union." Independent Journal, 1 Dec. 1787.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "No. 15: Its great defect: can only legislate for states.--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.