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I am your father.

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back. Directed by Irvin Kershner, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1980.

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No. Try not. Do...or do not. There is no try.

Yoda

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back. Directed by Irvin Kershner, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1980.

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Here's Johnny!

The Shining

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The Shining. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, The Producer Circle Company/Peregrine Productions/Hawk Films, 1980.

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Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

Beautiful Boy

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Lennon, John. "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)." Double Fantasy. Geffen Records/Capitol Records, 1980.

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Don't gain the world and lose your soul,
Wisdom is better than silver and gold.

Bob Marley

Zion Train

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Marley, Bob. "Zion Train." Performed by Bob Marley and the Wailers. Uprising. Tuff Gong/Island Records, 1980.

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Join me, and together we can rule the galaxy as father and son.

Darth Vader

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

To Luke Skywalker.

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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back. Directed by Irvin Kershner, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1980.

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If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Longworth, Alice Roosevelt. Embroidered on a pillow in her sitting room. c. 1980.

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To remember everything is a condition of madness.

Brian Friel

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Friel, Brian. Translations, dir. Art O'Briain. 23 Sept. 1980,Guildhall, Derry, Northern Ireland, UK, act 3.

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"Could a machine think?" my own view is that only a machine could think, and indeed only very special kinds of machines, namely brains and machines that had the same causal powers as brains... Whatever else intentionality is, it is a biological phenomenon, and it is as likely to be as causally dependent on the specific biochemistry of its origins as lactation, photosynthesis, or any other biological phenomena.

John R. Searle

Minds, Brains, and Programs

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Searle, John R. "Minds, Brains, and Science." Reith Lectures. BBC Radio 4. 1984. Radio.

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We're on a mission from God.

Dan Aykroyd

The Blues Brothers

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The Blues Brothers. Directed by John Landis, Universal Pictures, 1980.

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Do you believe in miracles? Yes!

Al Michaels

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After the U.S. men's hockey team beat the Sovet Union for the gold medal in the 1980 Winter Olympics.

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Michaels, Al. Spoken at the conclusion of victory by U.S. Olympic ice hockey team. 24 Feb. 1980, Olympic Fieldhouse, Olympic Arena, Lake Placid, NY, USA. ABC television broadcast.

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Do you have the slightest idea what a moral and ethical principle is? Do you?

The Shining

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The Shining. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, The Producer Circle Company/Peregrine Productions/Hawk Films, 1980.

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You like me because I’m a scoundrel. There aren’t enough scoundrels in your life.

Han Solo

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Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

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Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back. Directed by Irvin Kershner, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1980.

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I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

Ronald Reagan

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Reagan, Ronald. Spoken during presidential campaign debate. Campaign debate. 21 Sept. 1980, Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking.

Airplane!

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Airplane! Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker. Paramount Pictures/Howard W. Koch Productions, 1980.

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My foe, my enemy, is an animal. In order to conquer it, I have to think like an animal, and whenever possible, to look like one.

Caddyshack

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Caddyshack. Directed by Harold Ramis, Orion Pictures, 1980.

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You’re rather...attractive, for a beautiful girl with a great body.

Caddyshack

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Caddyshack. Directed by Harold Ramis, Orion Pictures, 1980.

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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

Carl Sagan

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Sagan, Carl. Cosmos. Random House, 1980, ch. 2.

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If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Carl Sagan

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"The Lives of Stars." Presented by Carl Sagan. Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, season 1, episode 8. PBS, 23 Nov. 1980.

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Learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Umberto Eco

The Name of the Rose

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Eco, Umberto. Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose]. Bompiani, 1980.

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Eco, Humberto. The Name of the Rose, translated by William Weaver. HarperVia, 2014.

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