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Everyone has their reasons.

The Rules of the Game

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La règle du jeu [The Rules of the Game.] Directed by Jean Renoir, Nouvelle Édition Française, 1939.

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I think I'll miss you most of all.

Dorothy Gale

The Wizard of Oz

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

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Did you ever think of marrying just for fun?

Rhett Butler

Gone with the Wind

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Gone with the Wind. Directed by Victor Fleming. Selznick International Pictures/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

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How fickle is woman.

Rhett Butler

Gone with the Wind

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Gone with the Wind. Directed by Victor Fleming. Selznick International Pictures/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

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My goodness, what a fuss you're making! Well naturally, when you go around picking on things weaker than you are. Why, you're nothing but a great big coward!

Dorothy Gale

The Wizard of Oz

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

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Well, I guess you can't break out of prison and into society in the same week.

Stagecoach

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Stagecoach. Directed by John Ford, Walter Wanger Productions, 1939.

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Dad always used to say the only causes worth fighting for were the lost causes.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Directed by Frank Capra, Columbia Pictures, 1939.

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Great principles don't get lost once they come to light. They're right here; you just have to see them again!

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Directed by Frank Capra, Columbia Pictures, 1939.

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And you’ll miss me more as the narrowing weeks wing by.

James Joyce

Finnegans Wake

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Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Faber and Faber, 1939.

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Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Wordsworth, 2012.

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First we feel. Then we fall.

James Joyce

Finnegans Wake

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Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Faber and Faber, 1939.

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Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Wordsworth, 2012.

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I know this—a man got to do what he got to do.

John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath

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Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. The Viking Press, 1939, ch. 18.

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Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.

Sigmund Freud

Moses and Monotheism

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Freud, Sigmund. Der Mann Moses und die monotheistische Religion [The Man Moses and the Monotheist Religion]. Hogarth Press, 1939, pt. 3.

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Freud, Sigmund. Moses and Monotheism, translated by Katherine Jones. Vintage, 1955, pt. 3.

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Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books, Miss Saunders. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will. Boys ought to grow up remembering that.

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Directed by Frank Capra, Columbia Pictures, 1939.

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The Godhead is broken like bread. We are the pieces.

W.H. Auden

Herman Melville

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Auden, W. H. "Herman Melville." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940.

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We must love one another or die.

W.H. Auden

September 1,1939

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Auden, W. H. "September 1, 1939." Another Time. Faber & Faber, 1940. Originally published in The New Republic, 18 Oct. 1939.

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I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if behind them they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Directed by Frank Capra, Columbia Pictures, 1939.

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No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.

Robert Frost

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Frost, Robert. "The Figure a Poem Makes." Collected Poems of Robert Frost. Holt/Longmans, Green and Co., 1939.

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Truly, I am living in a time of darkness.

Bertolt Brecht

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Brecht, Bertolt. "An die Nachgeborenen [To Those Born Later]." Die Neue Weltbühne, June 1939.

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Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation which has arisen seem to call for watchfulness and if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. Quoted in Einstein on Peace, edited by Otto Nathan and Heinz Norden. Simon and Schuster, 1960, ch. 9. Originally from Letter to Franklin Roosevelt, 2 Aug. 1939.

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