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I always say, religion is a fine thing, taken in moderation.

Trading Places

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Trading Places. Directed by John Landis, Paramount Pictures Studios/Cinema Group Ventures, 1983.

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A Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the Dark Side. Anger, fear, aggression. The Dark Side of the force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Consume you it will.

Yoda

Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi

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Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi. Directed by Richard Marquand, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1983.

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It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.

Roald Dahl

The Witches

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Dahl, Roald. The Witches. Jonathan Cape, 1983.

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Listen, punk. To me you're nothin' but dogshit, you understand? And a lot of things can happen to dogshit. It can be scraped up with a shovel off the ground. It can dry up and blow away in the wind. Or it can be stepped on and squashed. So take my advice and be careful with a dog shits ya!

Sudden Impact

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Sudden Impact. Directed by Clint Eastwood, Warner Bros., 1983.

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It was all over—I was dead. What would it be? The guillotine? Hanging? The chair? The rack? The Chinese water torture? Mmph. Mere child's play compared to what surely awaited me.

Ralphie Parker

A Christmas Story

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A Christmas Story. Directed by Bob Clark, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1983.

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With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

Milton Friedman

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Friedman, Milton. "The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community." Hoover Pacific Coast Seminar Dinner. 25 Oct. 1983, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

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Now, I had heard that word at least ten times a day from my old man. My father worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium; a master.

Ralphie Parker

A Christmas Story

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A Christmas Story. Directed by Bob Clark, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1983.

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The national park idea, the best idea we ever had, was inevitable as soon as Americans learned to confront the wild continent not with fear and cupidity but with delight, wonder, and awe.

Wallace Stegner

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Stegner, Wallace. "The Best Idea We Ever Had." Marking the Sparrow's Fall: The Making of the American West. H. Holt, 1998, p. 137.

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Joel, you wanna know something? Every now and then say, "What the fuck." "What the fuck" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.

Risky Business

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Risky Business. Directed by Paul Brickman, The Geffen Film Company, 1983.

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No set of legal institutions or prescriptions exists apart from the narratives that locate it and give it meaning. For every constitution, there is an epic, for each decalogue a scripture. Once understood in the context of the narratives that give it meaning, law becomes not merely a system of rules to be observed, but a world in which we live.

Robert M. Cover

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Nomos and Narrative

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Cover, Robert M. "Foreword: Nomos and Narrative." Harvard Law Review, Nov. 1983. Originally a foreword to the Supreme Court 1982 term.

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We are ready for the dialogue.

Lech Walesa

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Wałęsa, Lech. Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize. 11 Dec. 1983, Norweigen Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway.

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I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

Nick Cave

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Cave, Nick. Quoted in Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave, written by Ian Johnstone. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

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