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"Anything. Can be a slam. Poem. If you say it like this."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Leslie Knope
"Carpe… Hear it? Carpe… carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary."Source: Dead Poets Society | Speaker: John Keating
"Dear frozen yogurt: you are the celery of desserts. Be ice cream or nothing. Zero stars."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Ron Swanson
"Do not call for Black power or green power. Call for brain power."Source: Campus Speeches, Quoted in the Chicago Tribune | Author: Barbara Jordan
"Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."Source: 1896 Letter to Booker T. Washington | Author: George Washington Carver
"Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world."Source: 2003 Speech | Speaker: Nelson Mandela
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good"Source: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | Author: J.K. Rowling
"I was thrown out of NYU my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final […] I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me."Source: Annie Hall | Speaker: Alvy Singer
"In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."Source: The Third Man | Speaker: Harry Lime
"Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople."Source: Istanbul (Not Constantinople) | Speaker: They Might Be Giants
"Oh my God, Karen, you can't just ask people why they're white."Source: Mean Girls | Speaker: Gretchen Wieners
"One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."Source: Brave New World | Author: Aldous Huxley
"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."Source: Dazed and Confused | Speaker: David Wooderson
"The gift of a good liar is making people believe you lack a talent for lying."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."Source: Diggers (The Bromeliad Trilogy) | Author: Terry Pratchett
"There is no such thing [as society]!"Source: Interview with Woman's Own magazine in 1987 | Speaker: Margaret Thatcher
"We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice."Source: "The Celebration of Negro History Week" in The Journal of Negro History | Author: Carter G. Woodson