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Clearly, mistakes were made.

George H.W. Bush

Speech to the American Enterprise Institute, December 3, 1986

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On the Iran-Contra scandal.

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Bush, George H. W. Speech at the American Enterprise Institute. 3 Dec. 1986, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, USA.

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I'm in the prime of my youth, and I'll only be young once!

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Stand By Me. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Productions, 1986.

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We'd only been gone two days but somehow the town seemed different; smaller.

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Stand By Me. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Productions, 1986.

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I weep for the future.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Directed by John Hughes. Paramount Pictures, 1986.

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Jefe, you do not understand women. You cannot force open the petals of a flower. When the flower is ready, it opens itself up to you.

El Guapo

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Three Amigos. Directed by John Landis, Orion Pictures, 1986.

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We talked into the night. The kind of talk that seemed important until you discover girls.

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Stand By Me. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Productions, 1986.

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It happens sometimes. Friends come in and out of your life, like busboys in a restaurant.

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Stand By Me. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Productions, 1986.

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In a way, all of us has an El Guapo to face someday. For some, shyness might be their El Guapo. For others, a lack of education might be their El Guapo. For us, El Guapo is a big, dangerous guy who wants to kill us. But as sure as my name is Lucky Day, the people of Santa Poco can conquer their own personal El Guapo, who also happens to be the actual El Guapo!

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Three Amigos. Directed by John Landis, Orion Pictures, 1986.

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Are all men in disguise except those crying?

Dannie Abse

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Abse, Dannie. "Encounter at a Greyhound Bus Station." Ask the Moon. Hutchinson, 2014.

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We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Elie Wiesel

Nobel Prize Lecture, 1986

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Read this speech at nobelprize.org

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Wiesel, Elie. Acceptance speech. Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. 10 Dec 1986, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway.

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Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

George Shultz

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Shultz, George. "Moral Principles and Strategic Interests: The Worldwide Movement Toward Democracy." Landon Lecture Series. 14 Apr. 1986, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.

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Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation for the existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.

Richard Dawkins

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Dawkins, Richard. The Blind Watchmaker. Norton & Company, 1986, ch. 1.

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Well, you told me I have a plethora. And I just would like to know if you know what a plethora is. I would not like to think that a person would tell someone he has a plethora, and find out that person has no idea what it means to have a plethora.

El Guapo

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Three Amigos. Directed by John Landis, Orion Pictures, 1986.

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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death. It's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

Quoted in U.S. News and World Report

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Wiesel, Elie. Quoted in "One Must Not Forget." Interviewed by Alvin P. Sanoff. US News & World Report, 27 Oct. 1986.

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Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Jean Genet

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Genet, Jean. Un Captif Amoureux [Prisoner of Love]. Paris: Gallimard, 1986.

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Up to the moment of this writing... The Nazi concentration camp system still remains a unicum, both in its extent and its quality. At no other place or time has one seen a phenomenon so unexpected and so complex: never have so many human lives been extinguished in so short a time, and with so lucid a combination of technological ingenuity, fanaticism, and cruelty.

Primo Levi

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The Drowned and the Saved

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Levi, Primo. I sommersi e i salvati [The Drowned and the Saved]. Einaudi, 1986, preface.

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Levi, Primo. The Drowned and the Saved, translated by Raymond Rosenthal. Simon & Schuster, 2017, preface.

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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.

Pope John Paul II

On Judaism and the Jewish people.

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Pope John Paul II. "Text of Pope's Speech at Rome Synagogue: 'You Are Our Elder Brothers.'" The New York Times, 14 Apr. 1986, sec. A, p. 4. Originally was a speech to the Jewish Community of Rome. 13 Apr. 1986, Great Synagogue of Rome, Rome, Italy.

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