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May the Force be with you.

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Directed by George Lucas, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1977.

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The earth is what we all have in common.

Wendell Berry

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Berry, Wendell. The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture. Sierra Club Books, 1977, ch. 7.

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Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Woody Allen

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Allen, Woody. Quoted in "He's Woody Allen's 1‐1‐Silent Partner." Written by Susan Braudy. The New York Times, 21 Aug. 1977.

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There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning.

Howard Cosell

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Cosell, Howard. Reporting a fire during the World Series. World Series. 12 Oct. 1977, Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY, USA.

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Cosell, Howard. Quoted in The Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City, written by Jonathan Mahler. Picador, 2007, ch. 64.

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Don't stop thinking about tomorrow,
Don't stop, it'll soon be here.
It'll be here better than before,
Yesterday's gone, yesterday's gone.

Fleetwood Mac

Don't Stop

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McVie, Christine. "Don't Stop." Performed by Fleetwood Mac. Rumours. Warner Records, 1977.

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There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain.

Colleen McCullough

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The Thorn Birds

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McCullough, Colleen. The Thorn Birds. Harper & Row, 1977, epigraph.

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There was a famous story, some reporters asked a door gunner, "How can you shoot women and children?" and he'd answered, "It's easy, you just don't lead 'em so much."

Michael Herr

Dispatches

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Herr, Michael. "Breathing In." Dispatches. Alfred A. Knopf, 1977, pt. 3.

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If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Moshe Dayan

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Dayan, Moshe. Quoted in Newsweek. 17 Oct. 1977.

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All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Age of Uncertainty. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1977, ch. 12.

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The Force is what gives the Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Directed by George Lucas, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1977.

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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

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Hampton, Christopher. Quoted in Sunday Times Magazine. 16 Oct. 1977.

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Filling a space in a beautiful way. That is what art means to me.

Georgia O'Keeffe

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O'Keefe, Georgia. “Georgia O’Keeffe at 90." Interviewed by Mary Lynn Kotz. Art News, Dec. 1977.

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Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Directed by George Lucas, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1977.

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Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy

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Kennedy, John F. Address on the First Anniversary of the Alliance for Progress. 13 Mar. 1977, State Dining Room, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

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I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints
The sinners are much more fun

Billy Joel

Only the Good Die Young

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Joel, Billy. "Only the Good Die Young." The Stranger. Columbia Records, 1977.

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Your silence will not protect you.

Audre Lorde

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Lorde, Audre. "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action." Modern Language Association's Lesbian and Literature Panel. 28 Dec. 1977, Chicago, IL, USA.

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