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	Season 3 / Episode 2: - Love Among the Ruins Don Draper: In the interest of time, you want to demolish Penn Station and New York hates it. Edgar Raffit: Not all of New York - A vocal minority. Don Draper: Can they stop it? Edgar Raffit: Well, I think all the hubbub is making it unpleasant for... Don Draper: [interrupts] But they can't stop it, can they? Edgar Raffit: Why do you people insist on making us sound like villains? Don Draper: Your concern over public opinion shows a guilty conscience. What good is that serving you if what is to be done is already under way? Edgar Raffit: So let's say I don't have a guilty conscience. Don Draper: Good. And let's also say that change is neither good nor bad, it simply is. It can be greeted with terror or joy, a tantrum that says "I want it the way it was," or a dance that says, Look, something new!" Edgar Raffit: Would you draw the line at 50 percent? Don Draper: I'm not drawing a line at all. P.R. people understand this, but they can never execute it. If you don't like what is being said, then change the conversation. Edgar Raffit: What is that conversation? Don Draper: I was in California. Everything is new, and it's clean. The people are filled with hope. New York City is in decay. But Madison Square Garden is the beginning of a new city on a hill.
	Season 2 / Episode 9: - Six Month Leave Joan Holloway: One day you'll lose someone who's important to you. You'll see. It's very painful.
	Season 2 / Episode 9: - Six Month Leave Don Draper: It's your life. You don't know how long it's gonna last, but you know it doesn't end well. You've gotta move forward... as soon as you can figure out what that means.
	Season 2 / Episode 9: - Six Month Leave Peggy Olson: You just don't imagine her ever being alone. She was so famous. Hollis: Some people just hide in plain sight
	Season 2 / Episode 7: - The Gold Violin Roger Sterling: [on grieving for celebrities] I mean Roosevelt, I hated the man, but I felt like I knew him.
	Season 2 / Episode 7: - The Gold Violin Anna: [flashback] Are you Donald Draper? Don Draper: Yes, I am. If it's about my circular, many of the models are gone. But, uh, I'm sure we could find you something. Anna: Oh, I'm not here to buy a car. You're a hard man to find. Don Draper: Excuse me? Anna: You're not Don Draper.
	Season 2 / Episode 5: - The New Girl Joan Holloway: Aren't you darling? You're going to be gangbusters.
	Season 2 / Episode 5: - The New Girl Joan Holloway: Are you being a concerned daddy?
	Season 2 / Episode 5: - The New Girl Bobbie Barrett: This is America. Pick a job and then become the person that does it.
	Season 2 / Episode 5: - The New Girl Don Draper: This never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened.
	Season 2 / Episode 3: - The Benefactor Arthur Case: You're so profoundly sad. Betty Draper: No. It's just my people are Nordic.
	Season 2 / Episode 2: - Flight 1 Eugene: Hey Brooklyn, come home with me. Peggy Olson: Nuh-uh. Eugene: Why not? I live alone. Peggy Olson: Why should I? Eugene: [questioning] Because I like you, and we're having a good time, and I'm a good kisser and you know you want to. Peggy Olson: Eugene, I'm in the persuasion business, and frankly I'm disappointed by your presentation.
	Season 2 / Episode 2: - Flight 1 Don Draper: I'm enjoying the story so far, but I have a feeling its not going to end well.
	Season 2 / Episode 1: - For Those Who Think Young Peggy Olson: Sex sells. Don Draper: Says who? Just so you know, the people who talk that way think that monkeys can do this. They take all this monkey crap and stick it in a briefcase, completely unaware that their success depends on something more than shoeshine.
	Season 2 / Episode 1: - For Those Who Think Young Don Draper: You are the product. You feeling something. That's what sells. Not them. Not sex. They can't do what we do and they hate us for it.
	Season 2 / Episode 1: - For Those Who Think Young Peggy Olson: Sex sells. Don Draper: Says who? Just so you know, the people who talk that way think that monkeys can do this. They take all this monkey crap and just stick it in a briefcase completely unaware that their success depends on something more than their shoeshine. YOU are the product. You- FEELING something. That's what sells. Not them. Not sex. They can't do what we do, and they hate us for it.
	Season 1 / Episode 13: - The Wheel Don Draper: Nostalgia - it's delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek, "nostalgia" literally means "the pain from an old wound." It's a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn't a spaceship, it's a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards... it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It's not called the wheel, it's called the carousel. It let's us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know are loved.
	Season 1 / Episode 13: - The Wheel Joan Holloway: I said congratulations didn't I? Although, sometimes when people get what they want they realize how limited their goals were.
	Season 1 / Episode 10: - Long Weekend Paul Kinsey: [singing] Ethel, go get the icepick / That Nixon guy is on TV again.
	Season 1 / Episode 10: - Long Weekend Roger Sterling: [to Joan] Are we actually gonna get in a fight over a movie? You know, Mona had a dream once where I hit the dog with the car. She was mad at me all day - and I never hit the dog. We don't even have a dog.
	Season 1 / Episode 10: - Long Weekend Pete Campbell: [watching JFK political ad] The President is a product. Don't forget that.
	Season 1 / Episode 10: - Long Weekend Roger Sterling: You know what my father used to say? Being with a client is like being in a marriage. Sometimes you get into it for the wrong reasons, and eventually, they hit you in the face.
	Season 1 / Episode 8: - The Hobo Code Marge: What are you doing? Don't ever put your name on a list. They keep track of everything we do here! Have you never heard of Joseph McCarthy? Lois Saddler: It's the bowling team.
	Season 1 / Episode 8: - The Hobo Code Don Draper: I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie, there is no system, the universe is indifferent.
	Season 1 / Episode 6: - Babylon Roger Sterling: I bet there were people walking around in the Bible complaining about kids today.
	Season 1 / Episode 6: - Babylon Don Draper: Utopia. Rachel Menken: Maybe. They taught us at Barnard about that word, 'utopia'. The Greeks had two meaning for it: 'eu-topos', meaning the good place, and 'u-topos' meaning the place that cannot be.
	Season 1 / Episode 5: - 5G Midge Daniels: [on the phone with Don] I want you to pull my hair, and ravish me, and leave me for dead.
	Season 1 / Episode 4: - New Amsterdam Roger: I bet there were people in the Bible walking around complaining about kids today.
	Season 1 / Episode 4: - New Amsterdam Don Draper: Listen, Pete, I need you to go get a cardboard box. Put your things in it. Okay?
	Season 1 / Episode 4: - New Amsterdam Don Draper: Remember when I told you about Pete Campbell's last day? It's today. Roger: What'd he do? Don Draper: While we were busting our asses on the Bethelem Steel account he was at the Regis Hotel pitching copy. His copy! Roger: That little snot!

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