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There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

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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Success is more dangerous than failure, (the ripples break over a wider coastline).

Graham Greene

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Greene, Graham. Ways of Escape. The Bodley Head, 1980, ch. 8, sec. 3.

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What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.

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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Our hair
turns white with our ripening
as though to fly away in some
coming wind, bearing the seed
of what we know.

Wendell Berry

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Berry, Wendell. "Ripening." A Part. North Point Press, 1980.

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The cosmos is all there is or ever was or ever will be. Our contemplations of the cosmos stir us. There is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a great height. We know we are approaching the grandest of mysteries.

Carl Sagan

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Sagan, Carl. Cosmos. Random House, 1980.

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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Roald Dahl

The Twits

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Dahl, Roald. The Twits. Jonathan Cape, 1980.

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Men may have had their own very good reasons for bringing women up in servitude, but the soul of a servant is not an attractive thing, and one of the most infuriating aspects of women's constricted upbringing is that it has made them less attractive, even in the eyes of their constrictors, than they should have been. Man has twisted and pruned women out of all recognition and then not liked the results.

Janet Radcliffe Richards

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The Sceptical Feminst

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Richards, Janet Radcliffe. The Sceptical Feminst: A Philosophical Enquiry. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980, ch. 5.

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And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house
With a beautiful wife
And you may ask yourself
Well, how did I get here?

Talking Heads

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Once in a Lifetime

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Byrne, David and Brian Eno. "Once in a Lifetime." Performed by Talking Heads. Remain in Light. Sire Records, 1980.

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Next Tuesday all of you will go to the polls, will stand there in the polling place and make a decision. I think when you make that decision it might be well if you would ask yourself: Are you better off than you were four years ago?

Ronald Reagan

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Reagan, Ronald. Spoken during presidential campaign debate. Campaign debate. 28 Oct. 1980, Music Hall, Cleveland, OH, USA.

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Is a dream a lie if it don't come true,
Or is it something worse?

Bruce Springsteen

The River

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Springsteen, Bruce. "The River." The River. Columbia Records, 1980.

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Women. Can't live with them, can't live without them.

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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I would like to be the air
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be that unnoticed
& that necessary.

Margaret Atwood

Variation on the Word Sleep

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Atwood, Margaret. "Variation on the Word Sleep." The Atlantic, 1980.

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If you win, you win. If you lose, you still win. There's no way you can lose.

Raging Bull

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Raging Bull. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Chartoff-Winkler Productions, Inc., 1980.

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No-one would remember the good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Margaret Thatcher

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Thatcher, Margaret. "TV Interview for London Weekend Television." Weekend World. 6 Jan. 1980, London, England, UK. TV Interview.

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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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Tuchman, Barbara. "Papyrus to Paperbacks: The World that Books Made." The Washington Post, 30 Dec. 1979.

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A cult is a religion with no political power.

Tom Wolfe

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Wolfe, Tom. "Entr'actes and Canapes." In Our Time. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980.

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One of the meanings of human existence, the source of human freedom, is never to accept anything as definitive, untouchable, obvious, or immobile.

Michel Foucault

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Foucault, Michel. "Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual." Interviewed and translated by Michael Bess. History of the Present, Spring 1988.

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Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.

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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Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Umberto Eco

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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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Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love... If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.