LADY CAPULET: Evermore weeping for your cousin's death?

What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?

— Romeo and Juliet, III, v

"*Your* name and date of birth?”

“I'm called the Doctor; date of birth... difficult to remember, sometime quite soon I think.”

— Fisk and the Doctor, in “Nightmare of Eden”

HAMLET: For some must watch, while some must sleep:

So runs the world away.

— Hamlet, III, ii

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

The dictators cannot seem to realize that here in America our people can maintain two parties, and at the same time maintain an inviolate and indivisible Nation. The totalitarian mentality is too narrow to comprehend the greatness of a people who can be divided in party allegiance at election time, but remain united in devotion to their country and to the ideals of democracy at all times.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1941-03-29), Jackson Day Radio Broadcast, U.S.S. Potomac

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A quotation from George Carlin

Those who dance are considered insane by those who can’t hear the music.

George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Book (1997), Brain Droppings, “Short Takes (Part 1)”

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“Well, Doctor?”

“Yes, I'm fine.”

— Romana and the Doctor, in “State of Decay”

CASSIUS: For Cassius is aweary of the world;

Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;

Cheque'd like a bondman; all his faults observed,

Set in a note-book, learn'd, and conn'd by rote,

To cast into my teeth.

— Julius Caesar, IV, iii

A quotation from Lincoln

In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed. Consequently, he who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1858-08-21), Lincoln-Douglas Debate No. 1, Ottawa, Illinois

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A quotation from Emerson

Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances — it was somebody’s name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1860), “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, ch. 6

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A quotation from Euripides

Get not riches by unjust means, if thou wishest them to continue in thy family, for riches unjustly acquired quickly vanish.
 
[ἀδίκως δὲ μὴ κτῶ χρήματ᾽ ἣν βούλη πολὺν χρόνον μελάθροις ἐμμένειν” τὰ γὰρ κακῶς οἴκους ἐσελθόντ᾽ οὐκ ἔχει σωτηρίαν]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Erectheus [Ἐρεχθεύς], frag. 362, l. 11ff (TGF) (422 BC) [tr. Ramage (1864)]

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There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything that we believe in. They must be fought.

— The Doctor, in “The Moonbase”

THESEUS: The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them.

— A Midsummer Night's Dream, V, i

A quotation from Victor Hugo

Why? Because. The most terrible of motives, the most unanswerable of retorts — Because.
 
[Pourquoi ? Parce que. Le plus terrible des motifs et la plus indiscutable des réponses: Parce que.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 6 “Little Gavroche,” ch. 1 (4.6.1) (1862) [tr. Hapgood (1887)]

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A quotation from Longfellow

Toiling — rejoicing — sorrowing,
   Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
   Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
   Has earned a night’s repose.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet
“The Village Blacksmith,” st. 7 (1840)

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DONALBAIN: Where we are,

There's daggers in men's smiles: the nea'er in blood,

The nearer bloody.

— Macbeth, II, iii

Ace, give me some of that Nitro-9 you're not carrying!

— The Doctor, in “Remembrance of the Daleks”

It's on the tip of my mind.

— The Doctor, in “Castrovalva”

BOTTOM: And, most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath; and I do not doubt but to hear them say, it is a sweet comedy. No more words: away! go, away!

— A Midsummer Night's Dream, IV, ii

CADE: Be it known unto thee by these presence, even the presence of Lord Mortimer, that I am the besom that must sweep the court clean of such filth as thou art. Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. It will be proved to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and a verb, and such abominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear.

— 2 Henry VI, IV, vii