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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.

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Winston Churchill

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Churchill, Winston. "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat." House of Commons meeting. 13 May 1940, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Address.

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Churchill, Winston. "Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.

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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston Churchill

On the Battle of Britian.

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Churchill, Winston. "The Few." House of Commons meeting. 20 Aug. 1940, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Address.

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Churchill, Winston. "The Battle of Britain: 'The Few'." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.

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We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Winston Churchill

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Churchill, Winston. "We Shall Fight on the Beaches." House of Commons meeting. 4 June 1940, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Address.

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Churchill, Winston. "Dunkirk: Wars Are Not Won by Evacuations." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.

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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

Winston Churchill

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Churchill, Winston. "Their Finest Hour." House of Commons meeting. 18 June 1940, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK. Address.

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Churchill, Winston. "Alone: Their Finest Hour." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.

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Always let your conscience be your guide.

Pinocchio

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Pinocchio. Directed by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, Walt Disney Productions, 1940.

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When you wish upon a star,
Makes no difference who you are,
Anything your heart desires will come to you.

Pinocchio

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"When You Wish Upon a Star." Pinocchio. Composed by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington, performed by Cliff Edwards. Walt Disney Productions, 1940.

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France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.

Charles de Gaulle

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De Gaulle, Charles. A Tous Le Francais [To All Frenchmen]. 3 Aug. 1940.

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A lie keeps growing and growing, until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

Pinocchio

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Pinocchio. Directed by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, Walt Disney Productions, 1940.

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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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The time to make up your mind about people is never.

The Philadelphia Story

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The Philadelphia Story. Directed by George Cukor, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1940.

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Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our table.

W.H. Auden

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

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It is a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it: if you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other you are very likely to get what you want.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Maugham, William Somerset. "The Treasure." The Mixture as Before. William Heinemann/Doubleday Doran, 1940.

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Henry S. Haskins

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Haskins, Henry S [published anonymously]. "Metapsychics." Meditations in Wall Street. William Morrow & Company, 1940.

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We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages. The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds. We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement that holds throughout our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.

Benjamin Lee Whorf

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Science and Linguistics

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Whorf, Benjamin Lee. "Science and Linguistics." MIT Technology Review, Apr. 1940.

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Warfare... Is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

Margaret Mead

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Mead, Margaret. "Warfare is Only an Invention--Not a Biological Necessity." Asia, Aug. 1940.

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Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Simone Weil

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Weil, Simone. "L'iliade ou le poeme de la force [The Iliad, or The Poem of Force]." Les Cahiers du Sud, 1940.

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Weil, Simone. "The Iliad, or The Poem of Force." Simone Weil: An Anthology, translated by Sian Miles. Grove Press, 2000.

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Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday, you will be a real boy.

Pinocchio

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Pinocchio. Directed by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, Walt Disney Productions, 1940.

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Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Campaign address. 30 Oct. 1940, Boston, MA, USA.

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Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Notebook E: Epigrams, Wise Cracks and Jokes." The Crack-Up, edited by Edmund Wilson. New Directions, 2009. Originally published in Notebook E, c. 1940.

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