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Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy.

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In response to Dan Quayle's claim to have "as much experience in the Congress as Jack Kennedy had when he sought the presidency."

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Bentsen, Lloyd. Speech in Nebraska. Vice-Presidential Debate. 5 Oct. 1988, Civic Auditorium, Omaha, NE, USA.

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You know, I started out on clean up, just like you guys. But now…see, I’m washing lettuce. Soon I’ll be on fries; then the grill. A year or two, I make assistant manager, and that’s where the big bucks start rollin' in.

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

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It's disgusting the way they splash this stuff all over the newspapers! What is journalism coming to? You're laying on top of the queen with her legs wrapped around you and they call that news. They can't kick you off the force, Frank! It's just not fair!

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

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Protecting the safety of the Queen is a task that is gladly accepted by Police Squad. No matter how silly the idea of having a queen might be to us, as Americans, we must be gracious and considerate hosts.

Lt. Frank Drebin

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

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In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle.

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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Civilized people must get off their high horse and learn with humble lucidity that they too are an indigenous variety.

Alain Finkielkraut

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Finkielkraut, Alain. La défaite de la pensée [The Undoing of Thought]. Gallimard, 1987.

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Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Gerald Priestland

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Priestland, Gerald. Radio broadcast in London. 19 May 1988, London, England, UK.

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Everybody knows the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows.

Leonard Cohen

Everybody Knows

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Cohen, Leonard and Sharon Robinson. "Everybody Knows." Performed by Leonard Cohen. I'm Your Man. Columbia Records, 1988.

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Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

David Hockney

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Hockney, David. The Guardian. 26 Oct. 1988.

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Frequently an issue of this sort will come before the Court clad, so to speak, in sheep's clothing: the potential of the asserted principle to effect important change in the equilibrium of power is not immediately evident, and must be discerned by a careful and perceptive analysis. But this wolf comes as a wolf.

Antonin Scalia

Morrison v. Olsen

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Scalia, Antonin. Dissenting opinion. Morrison v. Olson. United States Reports, vol. 487, 29 June 1988, pp. 654-734. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/487/654/.

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