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I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?

Rebecca Wells

The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

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Topic

Vulnerability

Author

Rebecca Wells

Source

The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wells, Rebecca. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. HarperCollins, 1996, ch. 31.

Wars, conflict - it's all business. One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero. Numbers sanctify, my good fellow!

Charlie Chaplin

Monsieur Verdoux

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Topic

War

Speaker

Henri Verdoux

Actor

Charlie Chaplin

Source

Monsieur Verdoux

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1947 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Monsieur Verdoux. Directed by Charlie Chaplin, United Artists, 1947.

"Life is trouble," Zorba continued. "Death, no. To Live-do you know what that means? To undo your belt and look for trouble!"

Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba the Greek

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Topic

Living life to the fullest

Speaker

Zorba

Author

Nikos Kazantzakis

Source

Zorba the Greek

Medium

Novel

Language

Greek

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kazantzakis, Nikos. Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Life and State of Alexis Zorba]. Athens: Dimitrakou, 1946, ch. 8.

Current Citation

Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek, translated by Peter Bien. Simon & Schuster, 2014, ch. 8.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Robert Hass

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Topic

Desire

Author

Robert Hass

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Hass, Robert. "Meditation at Lagunitas." Praise. Ecco Press, 1979, I. 24.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

Annie Proulx

The Shipping News

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Topic

Life

Author

Annie Proulx

Source

The Shipping News

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Proulx, Annie. The Shipping News. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1993, ch. 10.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Karen Horney

Our Inner Conflicts

On therapy.

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Topic

Therapy Personal growth Life lessons

Author

Karen Horney

Source

Our Inner Conflicts

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

English

Time

1945 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Horney, Karen. Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neuroses. W. W. Norton & Company, 1945, conclusion.

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas,
Ease after war, death after life, does greatly please.

Edmund Spenser

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Topic

Rest

Author

Edmund Spenser

Source

The Faerie Queene

Medium

Poem

Genre

Epic poem

Language

English

Time

1590 1590s 16th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. London: William Ponsonbie, 1590, bk. 1, canto 9.

Current Citation

Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene, Book 1, edited by Carol V. Kaske. Hackett Publishing Company, 2006, bk. 1 canto 9, st. 40.

A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.

Samuel Johnson

Quoted in The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, by James Boswell

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Topic

Lawyers Legal theory

Speaker

Samuel Johnson

Author

James Boswell

Source

The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1773 1770s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 15 Aug. 1773.

Current Citation

Johnson, Samuel and James Boswell. "The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides." A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, edited by Jack Lynch and Celia Barnes. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.

Simone Weil

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Topic

Nature of power

Author

Simone Weil

Language

French

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Weil, Simone. "L'iliade ou le poeme de la force [The Iliad, or The Poem of Force]." Les Cahiers du Sud, 1940.

Current Citation

Weil, Simone. "The Iliad, or The Poem of Force." Simone Weil: An Anthology, translated by Sian Miles. Grove Press, 2000.

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

Tama Janowitz

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Topic

Nuclear holocaust

Author

Tama Janowitz

Source

Modern Saint #271 Slaves of New York

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1986 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Janowitz, Tama. "Modern Saint #271." Slaves of New York. Simon and Schuster/Crown Publishers, 1986.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Redistribution of wealth

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Everybody's Political What's What?

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. Everybody's Political What's What? Constable & Company/Dodd, Mead & Company, 1944, ch. 30.

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles

The Third Man

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Topic

Nature of history

Speaker

Harry Lime

Actor

Orson Welles

Source

The Third Man

Medium

Film

Genre

Film noir Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Third Man. Directed by Carol Reed, London Films, 1949.

I am convinced that a person doesn't only love himself in others, he also hates himself in others.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Topic

Relationships

Author

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Medium

Personal journal

Language

German

Time

1779 1770s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph. Journal "F." c. 1779.

Current Citation

Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph. "Notebook F 1776-1779." The Waste Books, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. NYRB Classics, 2000.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

Job

Job 12:12

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Topic

Wisdom Old age

Speaker

Job

Source

Book of Job The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

500 BC 500s BC 6th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Job 12:12).

I doubt whether any of these people, with their academic or dogmatic hatred of war, detest it as much as I do. They probably have not seen the bodies rotting on the ground and smelled the stench of decaying human flesh...What separates me from the pacifists is that I hate the Nazis more than I hate war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

On pacifists.

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Topic

Pacifism and nonviolence War

Author

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Eisenhower, Dwight D. Letter to Arthur Eisenhower. 2 July. 1943.

He who finds a wife finds a good thing, And obtains favor from the Lord.

Proverbs 18:22

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Topic

Marriage

Source

Proverbs The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

686 BC 680s BC 7th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible, New King James Version. Thomas Nelson, 1982. (Proverbs 18:22).

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections

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Topic

Character flaws

Author

François de La Rochefoucauld

Source

Reflections

Medium

Epigram

Language

French

Time

1678 1670s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

Current Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Do you believe in miracles? Yes!

Al Michaels

After the U.S. men's hockey team beat the Sovet Union for the gold medal in the 1980 Winter Olympics.

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Topic

Sports

Speaker

Al Michaels

Medium

TV broadcast

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Michaels, Al. Spoken at the conclusion of victory by U.S. Olympic ice hockey team. 24 Feb. 1980, Olympic Fieldhouse, Olympic Arena, Lake Placid, NY, USA. ABC television broadcast.

Hey, I’ll be watching you, Newton. I only came here to do two things, man: kick some ass and drink some beer. Looks like we’re almost outta beer.

Dazed and Confused

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Speaker

Clint Bruno

Actor

Nicky Katt

Source

Dazed and Confused

Medium

Film

Genre

Coming of age (film) Comedy (film) Coming of age Comedy

Statement Type

Threat

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Dazed and Confused. Directed by Richard Linklater, Detour Filmproduction/Alphaville Films, 1993.

For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

The Twilight Zone

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Topic

Red Scare Scapegoats

Speaker

Narrator (Twilight Zone)

Actor

Rod Serling

Source

The Twilight Zone

Medium

TV program

Genre

Science fiction (TV) Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." The Twilight Zone, written by Rod Serling, directed by Ron Winston, season 1, episode 22, Cayuga Productions and CBS Television Network, 1960.