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The Warrors. Directed by Walter Hill, Lawrence Gordon Productions, 1979.

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Apocolypse Now. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Omni Zoetrope, 1979.

Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?

Edward N. Lorenz

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Lorenz, Edward N. "Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 29 Dec. 1979, Washington, DC, USA.

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Dworkin, Andrea. Letters from a War Zone. Dutton, 1989, pt. 3.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Walter Benjamin

One Way Street

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Benjamin, Walter. Einbahnstraße [One Way Street]. Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1928.

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Benjamin, Walter. One-Way Street, translated by Edmund Jephcott, edited by Michael W. Jennings. Belknap Press, 2016.

When the working day is done
Oh girls, they wanna have fun
Oh, girls just wanna have fun

Cyndi Lauper

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

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Hazard, Robert. "Girls Just Want to Have Fun." Performed by Cyndi Lauper. She's So Unusual. Portrait Records, 1983.

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Apocolypse Now. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Omni Zoetrope, 1979.

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Waters, Roger. "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2." Performed by Pink Floyd. The Wall. Harvest Records/Columbia Records, 1979.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Elizabeth Appell

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Appell, Elizabeth. “Risk.” John F Kennedy University Newsletter, Jan. 1979.

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Mother Teresa. Nobel Peace Prize lecture. Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. 10 Dec. 1979, Oslo, Norway.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Robert Hass

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Hass, Robert. "Meditation at Lagunitas." Praise. Ecco Press, 1979, I. 24.

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Apocolypse Now. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Omni Zoetrope, 1979.

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Didion, Joan. "The White Album." The White Album. Simon & Schuster, 1979.

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Thatcher, Margaret. Speech at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet. Lord Mayor’s Banquet. 12 Nov. 1979, Guildhall, London, England, UK.

If you wanted to join the P.F.J., you'd have to really hate the Romans.

Monty Python's Life of Brian

On the People's Front of Judea, a fictional group of Jewish revolutionaries during the time of Jesus.

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Monty Python's Life of Brian. Directed by Terry Jones, Handmade Films/Python (Monty) Pictures, 1979.

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The Jerk. Directed by Carl Reiner, Aspen Film Society, 1979.

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Monty Python's Life of Brian. Directed by Terry Jones, Handmade Films/Python (Monty) Pictures, 1979.

The world is what it is.

V.S. Naipaul

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Naipaul, V. S. A Bend in the River. Alfred A Knopf, 1979, pt. 1.

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Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pan Books, 1979, ch. 16.