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"A salesman is got to dream, boy."

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

"All you need is love"

"And I think it's gonna be a long long time..."

"And it'd be our own, an' nobody could can us."

"And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good."

"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"April is the cruellest month"

"Are you trying to seduce me, Mrs. Robinson?"

"Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee."

"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."

"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."

"Baby, I was born this way."

"Baby, we were born to run."

"Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth."

"But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men."

"Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?"

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid."

"Do I dare to eat a peach?"

"Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony."

"For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."

"Four score and seven years ago…"

"Get up, stand up."

"Go west."

"He ain't no drag—Papa's got a brand new bag."

"Hey, where did we go? Days when the rains came..."

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

"I am an invisible man."

"I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

"I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself."

"I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."

"I had a farm in Africa."

"I have a dream"

"I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control."

"I rise"

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness"

"I will survive!"

"I'll never be your beast of burden."

"I'm starting with the man in the mirror"

"I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give"

"I, too, sing America."

"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."

"If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?"

"If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins"

"If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change."

"In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye."

"In the beginning there was faith—which is childish; trust—which is vain; and illusion—which is dangerous."

"In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

"Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?"

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

"It was as though some huge force were pressing down upon you […] persuading you, almost, to deny the evidence of your senses."

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

"It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring."

"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."

"It's just a shot away"

"I’d rather be a hammer than a nail"

"James Gatz—that was really, or at least legally, his name."

"Just standing on the Radley porch was enough."

"Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in."

"Let there be light."

"Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper."

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."

"Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities."

"Mankind must put an end to war—or war will put an end to mankind."

"Maybe Christmas, perhaps...means a little bit more!"

"Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing."

"Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."

"My candle burns at both ends"

"My dear, I don't give a damn."

"My name is Legion."

"My soul has grown deep like the rivers."

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

"No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent."

"Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?"

"Oh, the places you'll go!"

"One of you shall betray me."

"Oops!…I did it again."

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."

"Our long national nightmare is over."

"Perhaps there aren’t any grownups anywhere."

"R-E-S-P-E-C-T"

"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."

"So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!"

"Stay gold, Ponyboy."

"Tear down this wall!"

"Tell all the truth but tell it slant"

"That the sun will not rise tomorrow implies no more contradiction than that it will rise."

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

"The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind"

"The British are coming!"

"The Christian religion cannot be believed by any reasonable person."

"The creature was a party of boys"

"The madness came into his eyes again."

"The mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness"

"The officer nodded, as if a question had been answered."

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

"The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away."

"There are places I remember all my life, though some have changed."

"There is no new thing under the sun."

"There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn't be fair if they tried."

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."

"Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair"

"This is a valley of ashes"

"This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper."

"This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom."

"To everything there is a season."

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."

"Try them! Try them! And you may!"

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."

"War is not won by victory."

"Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink."

"We all go a little mad sometimes."

"We can have lots of good fun that is funny!"

"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock—Plymouth Rock landed on us."

"We speak student."

"We're all mad here."

"We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year."

"We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything."

"What a treacherous thing to believe a person is more than a person."

"What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?"

"Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past."

"When I became a man, I put away childish things."

"When we two parted"

"Wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there."

"You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change."

"You know it don’t take much intelligence to get yourself into a nailed-up coffin, Laura. But who in hell ever got himself out of one without removing one nail?"

"You must take your place in the Circle of Life."

"You say goodbye and I say hello."

"You take the blue pill […] You take the red pill."

"You're gonna be popular!"

"You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so...get on your way!"

"You're on your own."

"You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."