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A life in which the gods are not invited is not worth living. It will be quieter, but there won't be any stories.

Roberto Calasso

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The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

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Calasso, Robert. Le nozze di Cadmo e Armonia [The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmonia]. Adelphi Edizioni, 1988, ch. 12.

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Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life-learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Robert Fulghum

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All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

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Fulghum, Robert. "Credo." All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. 1986.

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Read my lips: no new taxes.

George H.W. Bush

1988 Republican convention speech

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Bush, George H. W. Accepting the presidential nomination. Republican National Convention. 18 Aug. 1988, Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, LA, USA.

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A gay Vietnam veteran... They gave me a medal for killing two men-and a discharge for loving one.

Leonard Matlovich

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Inscription on his tombstone.

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Matlovich, Leonard. Inscription on tombstone. 1988.

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Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker.

Die Hard

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Die Hard. Directed by John McTiernan, Gordon Company/Silver Pictures, 1988.

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We believe if you have a family you can't eliminate certain members of that family because profits are down.

Akio Morita

Quoted in The Sunday Telegraph

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Morita, Akio. Interviewed by U.K. Sunday Telegraph. c. 1988.

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I want a woman that will arouse my intellect as well as my loins.

Prince Akeem

Coming to America

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Coming To America. Directed by John Landis, Eddie Murphy Productions, 1988.

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No journey is too great when one finds what he seeks.

Prince Akeem

Coming to America

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Coming To America. Directed by John Landis, Eddie Murphy Productions, 1988.

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I don't believe in quantum physics when it comes to matters of the heart.

Bull Durham

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Bull Durham. Directed by Ron Shelton, The Mount Company, 1988.

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America is great indeed. Imagine a country so free, one can throw glass on the streets!

Prince Akeem

Coming to America

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Coming To America. Directed by John Landis, Eddie Murphy Productions, 1988.

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By the way...I faked every orgasm!

Lt. Frank Drebin

Naked Gun

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Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad. Directed by David Zucker, Paramount Pictures, 1988.

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Just think, next time I shoot someone, I could be arrested.

Lt. Frank Drebin

Naked Gun

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Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad. Directed by David Zucker, Paramount Pictures, 1988.

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Oh there they go. There they go, every time I start talkin 'bout boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. That's their one, that's their one. Rocky Marciano. Rocky Marciano. Let me tell you something once and for all. Rocky Marciano was good, but compared to Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano ain't shit.

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Coming To America. Directed by John Landis, Eddie Murphy Productions, 1988.

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What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?...Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

Stephen Hawking

A Brief History of Time

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Hawking, Steven. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 1988, conclusion.

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Jane, since I've met you, I've noticed things that I never knew were there before...birds singing, dew glistening on a newly formed leaf, stoplights.

Lt. Frank Drebin

Naked Gun

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Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad. Directed by David Zucker, Paramount Pictures, 1988.

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The people have the power
The power to dream, to rule
To wrestle the earth from fools.

Patti Smith

People Have the Power

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Smith, Patti and Fred Smith. "People Have the Power." Performed by Patti Smith. Dream of Life. Arista, 1988.

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Maybe we both realized that growing up doesn’t have to be so much a straight line as a series of advances and retreats.

The Wonder Years

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"Swingers." The Wonder Years, written by Neal Marlens and Carol Black, directed by Carol Black and Neal Marlens, season 1, episode 2, The Black/Marlens Company and New World Television, 1988.

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Men and women suffer alone, over the choices they've made. And young boys, full of confusion... Full of fear... Full of love and courage... Grow up stealthily in their sleep.

The Wonder Years

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"Angel." The Wonder Years, written by Neal Marlens and Carol Black, directed by Art Wolff, season 1, episode 4, The Black/Marlens Company and New World Television, 1988.

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You think God belongs only to you? He doesn't. God is an immortal spirit who belongs to everybody, to the whole world. You think you're special? God is not an Israelite!

The Last Temptation of Christ

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The Last Temptation of Christ. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Universal Pictures/Cineplex Odeon Films/Testament Productions, 1988.

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We're a nation of community, of thousands and tens of thousands of ethnic, religious, social, business, labor union, neighborhood, regional and other organizations, all of them varied, voluntary, and unique... A brillant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

George H.W. Bush

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Bush, George H. W. Acceptance address at the Republican National Convention. Republican National Convention. 18 Aug. 1988, New Orleans, LA, USA.

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