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Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.

Dead Poets Society

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Dead Poets Society. Directed by Peter Weir, Touchstone Pictures/Silver Screen Partners IV, 1989.

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When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

When Harry Met Sally…

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When Harry Met Sally... Directed by Rob Reiner, Nelson Entertainment/Castle Rock Entertainment, 1989.

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Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.

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Dead Poets Society. Directed by Peter Weir, Touchstone Pictures/Silver Screen Partners IV, 1989.

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If you build it, he will come.

Shoeless Joe Jackson

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Field of Dreams

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Field of Dreams. Directed by Phil Alden Robinson, Gordon Company, 1989.

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The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

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Dead Poets Society. Directed by Peter Weir, Touchstone Pictures/Silver Screen Partners IV, 1989.

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I'll have what she's having.

When Harry Met Sally…

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When Harry Met Sally... Directed by Rob Reiner, Nelson Entertainment/Castle Rock Entertainment, 1989.

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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

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Beckett, Samuel. "Worstward Ho!" Nohow On. The Limited Editions Club, 1989.

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What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of man's ideological evolution and the universalism of Western liberal democracy.

Francis Fukuyama

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The End of History?

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Read this essay at ucsd.edu

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Fukuyama, Francis. "The End of History?" National Interest, summer 1989.

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Always do the right thing.

Do the Right Thing

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Do the Right Thing. Directed by Spike Lee, 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks, 1989.

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To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

John Updike

Self-Consciousness

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Updike, John. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs. Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, ch. 4.

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Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.

Amy Tan

The Joy Luck Club

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Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989.

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Fight the power.

Public Enemy

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Fight the Power

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"Fight the Power." Do the Right Thing. Directed by Spike Lee, performed by Public Enemy. 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 1989.

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Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in-particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

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Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. Faber & Faber, 1989.

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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy-but that could change.

Dan Quayle

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Quayle, Dan. Quoted in Wall Street Journal. 26 May 1989.

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It's amazing, you look like a normal person, but actually, you are the angel of death.

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When Harry Met Sally... Directed by Rob Reiner, Nelson Entertainment/Castle Rock Entertainment, 1989.

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I'm sixteen years old. I'm not a child anymore.

The Little Mermaid

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The Little Mermaid. Directed by Rob Clements and John Musker, Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Feature Animation/Silver Scrreen Partners IV, 1989.

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No man can be friends with a woman that he finds attractive he always wants to have sex with her.

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When Harry Met Sally... Directed by Rob Reiner, Nelson Entertainment/Castle Rock Entertainment, 1989.

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No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

Dead Poets Society

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Dead Poets Society. Directed by Peter Weir, Touchstone Pictures/Silver Screen Partners IV, 1989.

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Language was developed for one endeavor, and that is...to woo women.

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Dead Poets Society. Directed by Peter Weir, Touchstone Pictures/Silver Screen Partners IV, 1989.