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"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."Source: Inauguration Address, January 20, 1961 | Speaker: John F. Kennedy
"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."Source: The Great Gatsby | Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I will always love you."Source: I Will Always Love You | Speaker: Dolly Parton (and Whitney Houston)
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."Source: A Tale of Two Cities | Author: Charles Dickens
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."Source: First Moon Landing | Speaker: Neil Armstrong