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104. Lighthouses

“It is the one orderly product our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths; it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden the best evidence we can give of our dignity.”

E. M. Forster 

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#101. El Escorial Monastery Library

"The vault of the library's ceiling is decorated with frescoes depicting the seven liberal arts: Rhetoric, Dialectic, Music, Grammar, Arithmetic, Geometry and Astronomy."

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#100. The Godfather

"Johnny .. was signed to this contract with a big-band leader .. and he wanted to get out of it.. My father went to see the bandleader, and offered him $10,000 to let Johnny go, but the bandleader said no. So the next day, my father went to see the bandleader again, only this time with Luca Brasi. Within an hour, the bandleader signed the release, with a certified check of $1,000." "How did he do that?" "My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse."

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#99. Doctor Who “People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly… time-y wimey… stuff.” “He’s like fire and ice and rage. He’s like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He’s ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And… he’s wonderful.”

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#98. London fog

“The fog was where I wanted to be. Halfway down the path you can’t see this house. You’d never know it was here. Or any of the other places down the avenue. I couldn’t see but a few feet ahead. I didn’t meet a soul. Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That’s what I wanted—to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself. Out beyond the harbor, where the road runs along the beach, I even lost the feeling of being on land. The fog and the sea seemed part of each other. It was like walking on the bottom of the sea. As if I had drowned long ago. As if I was the ghost belonging to the fog, and the fog was the ghost of the sea. It felt damned peaceful to be nothing more than a ghost within a ghost.” 

Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night

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#96. The Cure - Disintegration

"I think it's dark and it looks like rain, you said  and the wind is blowing like it's the end of the world, you said  and it's so cold, it's like the cold if you were dead. And then you smiled  for a second."

Plainsong

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#94. Davis and White - Samson & Delilah

"For their young age at the time, this epic, intense performance is simply outstanding. The program was, in fact, their breakthrough, with a soft opening escalating into an intense, passionate drama with deep edges and incredibly high speed."

Samson & Delilah

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#93. Janis Joplin

"Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends. Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends,  So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?"

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