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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Tyler Durden

Fight Club

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Fight Club. Directed by David Fincher, Fox 2000 Pictures/Regency Enterprises/Linson Films, 1999.

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When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose.

Jack Dawson

Titanic

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Titanic. Directed by James Cameron, Paramount Pictures/20th Century Fox/Lightstorm Entertainment, 1997.

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Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Ernest Hemingway

A Farewell to Arms

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Hemingway, Ernest. "A Farewell to Arms." Scribner's Magazine, May 1929 - Oct. 1929, bk. 2, ch. 21.

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Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. Scribners, 1995, bk. 2, ch. 21.

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Freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose.

Janis Joplin

Me and Bobby McGee

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Kristofferson, Kris and Fred Foster. "Me and Bobby McGee." Performed by Janis Joplin. Pearl. Columbia Records, 1971.

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I tell you the most dangerous creation in the world in any society is the man with nothing to lose. You do not need 10 such men to change the world. One will do.

Elijah Muhammad

Malcolm X

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Malcolm X. Directed by Spike Lee, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 1992.

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Tempt not a desp'rate man.

William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 5, sc. 3.

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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 5, sc. 3.

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You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power-he's free again.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In the First Circle

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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander. В круге первом [In the First Circle]. Collins & Harvill Press/‎Harper & Row, 1968, ch. 17.

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You've got nothing to lose, and you'll always regret it if you don't.

Love Actually

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Love Actually. Directed by Richard Curtis, Working Title Films/StudioCanal/DNA Films, 2003.

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