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Just a drink. A martini, shaken, not stirred.

James Bond

Goldfinger

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Drink order Alcohol

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James Bond

Actor

Sean Connery

Source

Goldfinger

Medium

Film

Genre

Spy (film) Thriller (film) Spy Thriller

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English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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Goldfinger. Directed by Guy Hamilton. Eon Productions, 1964.

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Old to grow, but ever learning.

Solon

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Learning Wisdom Aging Old age

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Solon

Author

Plutarch

Source

Solon Plutarch's Lives

Genre

Historical literature

Language

Greek

Time

119 110s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Plutarch. Βίοι Παράλληλοι [Parallel Lives]. Rome, 1470.

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3 of 10076

How little do we know that which we are!
How less what we may be!

Lord Byron

Don Juan

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Human potential Human nature

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Lord Byron

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Don Juan

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1824 1810s 19th century

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Lord Byron. Don Juan. London: John Hunt, 1824, canto 15, st. 99.

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Lord Byron. "Don Juan." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 15, st. 99.

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4 of 10076

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent Van Gogh

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Courage Taking risks Life

Author

Vincent Van Gogh

Source

Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Question

Language

Dutch

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

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Van Gogh, Vincent. Letter to Theo van Gogh. 29 Dec. 1881.

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Van Gogh, Vincent. Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, edited by Irving Stone and Jean Stone. Plume, 1995.

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5 of 10076

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

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Scientific progress Progress

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Isaac Newton

Source

Letters of Isaac Newton

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Letter

Language

English

Time

1676 1670s 17th century

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Newton, Isaac. Letter to Robert Hooke. 5 Feb. 1676.

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Newton, Isaac. Letter to Hooke, 5 February 1675/6." The Correspondence of Isaac Newton. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

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6 of 10076

Time, the devourer of all things.

Ovid

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Effects of time Relentlessness of time Time

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Ovid

Source

Metamorphoses

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Poem

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Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Latin

Time

8 0s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Ovid. Metamorphōsēs [Metamorphoses]. c. 8 CE, bk. 15, l. 234.

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Ovid. Metamorphoses, translated by David Raeburn. Penguin Classics, 2004, bk. 15, l. 234.

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When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir... America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream

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Declaration of Independence US Constitution The Founders American founding Civil rights American politics

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source

I Have a Dream

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Speech

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Political speech

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "I Have a Dream." March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. 28 Aug. 1963, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, USA.

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8 of 10076

Come mothers and fathers,
Throughout the land
And don't criticize
What you can't understand.

Bob Dylan

The Times They Are a-Changin' (song)

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Change Progress

Speaker

Bob Dylan

Source

The Times They Are a-Changin' (song) The Times They Are a-Changin' (album)

Medium

Song

Genre

Protest music Folk music

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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Dylan, Bob. "The Times They Are a-Changin'." The Times They Are a-Changin'. Columbia Records, 1965.

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9 of 10076

Then one day there really was a wolf but when the boy shouted, they didn't believe him.

Aesop

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The Boy Who Cried Wolf

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False alarms Alarmism

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Aesop

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The Boy Who Cried Wolf Aesop's Fables

Medium

Fable and fairytale

Genre

Children's literature

Language

Greek

Time

6th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Aesop. "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Aesop's Fables. c. 600.

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Aesop. "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Aesop's Fables. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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10 of 10076

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

Aristotle

Politics

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Economic inequality Decline of democracy Tyranny

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Aristotle

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Politics

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Political literature Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

350 BC 350s BC 4th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 4.

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Aristotle. Politics, translated by R. F. Stalley and Sir Ernest Barker. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 4.

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11 of 10076

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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Elegance of nature Birds Nature Limitations and constraints Human potential

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William Blake

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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Medium

Poem

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Philosophical literature

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Proverbs, aphorisms and adages Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1793 1790s 18th century

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Blake, William. "The Argument." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. c. 1790.

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Blake, William. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman. University of California Press, 2008.

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12 of 10076

Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Military strategy

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Napoleon Bonaparte

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History of Europe

Language

French

Time

1805 1800s 19th century

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Bonaparte, Napoleon. Quoted in History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815, written by Archibald Alison. Vol. 5, Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1841.

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Moreover, in a system of two bodies mutually acting upon each other, since the differences between their centres and the common centre of gravity of both are reciprocally as the bodies, the relative motions of those bodies, whether of approaching to or of receding from that centre, will be equal junong themselves. Therefore since the changes which happen to motions are equal and directed to contrary parts.

Isaac Newton

Principia

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Cause and effect Laws of physics Physics Science

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Isaac Newton

Source

Principia

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

Latin

Time

1687 1680s 17th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Newton, Isaac. "Axiomata sive Leges Motus: [Axioms, or Laws of Motion]." Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica [The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy], vol. 1. London: Josephi Streater, 1687, law 3.

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Newton, Isaac. "Axioms, or the Laws of Motion." The Principia, translated by Andrew Motte. Prometheus, 1995, law 3.

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The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

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Fake news

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Mark Twain

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Note

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English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

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Twain, Mark. Note to Frank Marshall White. 31 May 1897.

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain: The Complete Interviews, edited by Gary Scharnhorst. University Alabama Press, 2006, ch. 6.

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15 of 10076

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Thomas Paine

Rights of Man

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Citizens of the world Religion

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Thomas Paine

Source

Rights of Man

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Philosophical literature Political literature

Language

English

Time

1792 1790s 18th century

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Paine, Thomas. Rights of man. Part the second. London: J. S. Jordan, 1792.

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Paine, Thomas. "Rights of Man Part the second." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream

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Freedom Equality

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I Have a Dream

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Speech

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "I Have a Dream." March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. 28 Aug. 1963, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC, USA.

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Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world…it is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx

Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

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Decline of religion Religion

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Karl Marx

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Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right

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Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

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Marx, Karl. Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtspilosophie [On the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Law]. Frankfurt, 1927.

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Marx, Karl. A Critique of Hegel's "Philosophy of Right". Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

James Madison

Federalist 10

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James Madison

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Federalist 10 The Federalist Papers

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Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1787 1780s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

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Madison, James [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 10: The Same Subject Continued: The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection." Daily Advertiser, 22 Nov. 1787.

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Madison, James. "No. 10: An extensive republic a remedy for mischiefs of faction.--Madison." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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Say my name.

Walter White

Breaking Bad

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Walter White

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Bryan Cranston

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Breaking Bad

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TV program

Genre

Crime (TV) Drama (TV) Crime Drama

Statement Type

Orders and commands

Language

English

Time

2012 2010s 21st century

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"Say My Name." Breaking Bad, written by Thomas Schnauz, directed by Thomas Schnauz, season 5, episode 7, High Bridge Productions/Gran Via Productions/Sony Pictures Television, 2012.

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I ain’t got no quarrel with those Vietcong.

Muhammad Ali

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Vietnam War

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Muhammad Ali

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Press conference

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

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Ali, Muhammad. Quoted in "I Ain't Got No Quarrel with them Viet Cong." Written by Bob Orkland. The New York Times, 27 June 2017. Originally a press conference. 28 Apr. 1967, Louisville, KY, USA.

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