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David Letterman entertaining troops in Iraq.
Ladies and gentlemen, here's tonight's top 10 list.

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A football
What's that? Uh -- Playoffs? Don't talk about -- playoffs? You kidding me? Playoffs? I just hope we can win a game!

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Dan Quayle
What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

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Robert F. Kennedy
I have bad news for you, for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world, and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and killed tonight.

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Indy 500
Lady and/Ladies and/Gentlemen, start your engines!

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Thomas Riley Marshall
Money will accomplish much in business, love and war but it isn't worth a cent in nature.... You could take the golden eagles of America and put them in the alfalfa fields of Indiana and you would not get a single blade more of grass.

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James Whitcomb Riley
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

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Madam C.J. Walker
There is no royal, flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it for if I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard.

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Students reciting the pledge on Flag Day in 1899
Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools too?

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Evan Bayh
I come from teachers. My great, great grandfather Christopher Bayh came to Indiana with a yellow tag in his overalls that said, railroad. Because he couldn't speak any English, that's where he went to work. But his first grandson became a teacher and he married a teacher, my grandmother. No one here tonight would have traveled half as far if it weren't for our teachers. They're the real American heroes.

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Cover of c. 1898 sheet music issue of Paul Dresser's song On The Banks Of The Wabash, Far Away"
Oh, the moonlight's fair tonight along the Wabash,
From the fields there comes the breath of newmown hay.
Through the sycamores the candle lights are gleaming,
On the banks of the Wabash, far away.

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Political cartoon representing President Harrison's administration and Congress playing football.
What can I do when both parties insist on kicking?

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"Cupid and Psyche as Children" by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

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John Wooden at a ceremony on his 96th birthday
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

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Follow one line of thought and research with your whole mind and soul; take no active part in politics until maturity has brought you settled thought. The life of a politician is not always reputable; it has so many elements of deceit and dishonesty that it is hard to follow it and keep clean one's hands and soul
James Whitcomb, speaking of his profession

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Elwood Haynes, December 11, 1918
A man's work in life is not very great at best, when compared with the sum total of human effort, and after all, it is the good that we may be able to do for our fellow-men and not the glory of achievement that really counts

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... the strongest of all governments is that which is most free.
William Henry Harrison, in an 1828 letter to Simón Bolívar

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The Bible, in bidding us to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, said nothing about color, and I should try to follow out the teachings of that good book
Levi Coffin, to people questioning his involvement in the Underground Railroad

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Garfield: Yii! It's freezing! Too bad. [sighs] I'm hungry.
Garfield (character), from 1983 television special "Garfield on the Town" based on the comic strip created by Indiana native Jim Davis

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Nominations

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Feel free to add quotes about Indiana or quotes from notable Hoosiers to the above list. Other quotes may be nominated here.