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I would like to inform all the intrepid Muslims in the world that the author of the book entitled The Satanic Verses, which has been compiled, printed and published in opposition to Islam, the Prophet and the Qur'an, as well as those publishers who were aware of its contents, have been declared madhur el dam-those whose blood must be shed. I call on all zealous Muslims to execute them quickly, wherever they find them, so that noone will dare to insult Islam again. Whoever is killed in this path will be regarded as a martyr.

Ayatollah Khomeini

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Khomeini, Ruhollah. Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. 14 Feb. 1989, Iran. Radio broadcast.

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You must choose, but choose wisely for as the true Grail will bring you life, the false Grail will take it from you.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Lucasfilm Ltd., 1989.

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That's why I don't have an ulcer, because I know when to say, "I don't give a fuck."

Lethal Weapon 2

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Lethal Weapon 2. Directed by Richard Donner, Warner Bros. Pictures/Silver Pictures, 1989.

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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its "victims".

Susan Sontag

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Sontag, Susan. AIDS and its Metaphors. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1989, ch. 1.

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It was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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

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The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again, but baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.

Field of Dreams

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

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Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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

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But what is the sense in forever speculating what might have happened had such and such a moment turned out differently? One could presumably drive oneself to distraction in this way.

Kazuo Ishiguro

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

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So this was GM chairman Roger Smith. And he appeared to have a brilliant plan: First, close 11 factories in the U. S., then open 11 in Mexico where you pay the workers 70 cents an hour. Then, use the money you've saved by building cars in Mexico to take over other companies, preferably high-tech firms and weapons manufacturers. Next, tell the union you're broke and they happily agree to give back a couple billion dollars in wage cuts. You then take that money from the workers, and eliminate their jobs by building more foreign factories. Roger Smith was a true genius.

Roger and Me

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Roger and Me. Directed by Michael Moore, Dog Eat Dog Films, 1989.

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Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

John Updike

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Updike, John. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs. Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, ch. 6.

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The fuck is wrong with you? This ain't about money, I could give a fuck about money. You see this fucking place? I built this fucking place, with my bare fucking hands! Every light socket, every piece of tile, me, with these fucking hands!

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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I always figured girls knew exactly what they wanted. They knew-they had a plan. Or maybe they didn’t. Maybe they were just as confused as we were. Isn’t that great? It's-it’s horrible. They don’t know either. That means nobody knows.

The Wonder Years

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"Just Between Me and You and Kirk and Paul and Carla and Becky." The Wonder Years, written by Neal Marlens and Carol Black and Matthew Carlson, directed by Peter Baldwin, season 2, episode 5, The Black/Marlens Company and New World Television, 1989.

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Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

Stephen Jay Gould

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Gould, Stephen Jay. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. W. W. Norton & Co., 1989, ch. 1.

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Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on the people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

Janet Malcolm

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Malcolm, Janet. "The Journalist and the Murderer." The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 1989 - 20 Mar. 1989.

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Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

Julian Barnes

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Barnes, Julian. "Parenthesis." A HIstory of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

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Faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for: there is all the difference in the world.

Tony Benn

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Benn, Tony. "Sayings of the Week." The Observer, 16 Apr. 1989.

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The priest persuades humble people to endure their hard lot; the politician urges them to rebel against it; and the scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.

Max Perutz

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Perutz, Max. Is Science Necessary? Essays on Science and Scientists. E.P. Dutton, 1989.

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70% of all archeology is done in the library. Researching. Reading. We cannot afford to take mythology at face value.

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Lucasfilm Ltd., 1989.

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Archaeology is the search for fact...not truth. If it's truth you're interested in, Dr. Tyree's philosophy class is right down the hall. So forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel, and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and "X" never, ever marks the spot.

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Lucasfilm Ltd., 1989.

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Being blonde is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blonde has some incredible sort of sexual connotation.

Madonna

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Madonna. "Madonna: The Rolling Stone Interview." Interviewed by Bill Zehme. Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 1989.

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