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We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Tennessee Williams

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Topic

Existential solitude

Speaker

Valentine Xavier

Author

Tennessee Williams

Source

Orpheus Descending

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Williams, Tennessee. Orpheus Descending. Directed by Harold Clurman. Performed by Elizabeth Eustis and Jane Rose and Warren Kemmerling. 17 Mar. 1957, Martin Beck Theatre, New York City, New York, USA, act 2, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Williams, Tennessee. "Orpheus Descending." Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer. New Directions, 2012, act 2, sc. 1.

Pain is an event, an experience that must be recognized, named, and then used in some way in order for the experience to change, to be transformed into something else, strength or knowledge or action.

Audre Lorde

Sister Outsider

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Topic

Pain Learning from suffering

Author

Audre Lorde

Source

Sister Outsider

Medium

Essay

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lorde, Audre. "Eye to Eye: Black Women, Hatred, and Anger." Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Crossing Press, 1984.

The Force is what gives the Jedi his power. It's an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

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Topic

The Fore Interconnectedness of all things

Speaker

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Actor

Alec Guinness

Source

Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

Medium

Film

Genre

Epic (film) Science fiction (film) Epic Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. Directed by George Lucas, Lucasfilm Ltd., 1977.

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men.

The Twilight Zone

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Topic

Power of ideas Ideas

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.

I have 14 other grandchildren and if I pay one penny now, I'll have 14 kidnapped grandchildren.

J. Paul Getty

To reporters after his grandson was kidnapped and a ransom payment was demanded.

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Topic

Incentives Game theory

Speaker

J. Paul Getty

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Getty, Jean Paul. Statement to the press about his grandson's kidnapping. 26 July 1973, Guilford, England, UK.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion—except for the sect that can win political power.

Robert H. Jackson

Zorach v. Clauson

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Topic

Freedom of religion

Author

Robert H. Jackson

Source

Zorach v. Clauson

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Jackson, Robert H. Dissenting Opinion. Zorach v. Clauson. United States Reports, vol. 343, 28 Apr. 1952, pp. 323-325. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/343/306/.

That there is a Devil, is a Thing Doubted by none but such as are under the Influence of the Devil. For any to Deny the Being of a Devil must be from an Ignorance or Profaneness, worse than diabolical.

Cotton Mather

The Wonders of the Invisible World

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Topic

Existence of the devil The devil

Author

Cotton Mather

Source

The Wonders of the Invisible World

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1693 1690s 17th century

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Citation

Mather, Cotton. The Wonders of the Invisible World. John Dunton, 1693.

Cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

Clifton Fadiman

The Complete Book of Cheese

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Topic

Cheese

Author

Clifton Fadiman

Source

The Complete Book of Cheese

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Fadiman, Clifton. The Complete Book of Cheese. Gramercy Publishing Company, 1955, introduction.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

Bertrand Russell

Marriage and Morals

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Topic

Unfounded beliefs Beliefs

Author

Bertrand Russell

Source

Marriage and Morals

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Russell, Bertrand. Marriage and Morals. Allen & Unwin, 1929, ch. 5.

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths.

Ada Lovelace

On Charles Babbage's vision for a rudimentary computer.

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Topic

Artificial intelligence Computers

Author

Ada Lovelace

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

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Citation

King, Augusta Ada. Scientific Memoirs: Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of science and Learned Societies and from Foreign Journals. Vol. 3, London: R. and J. E. Taylor, 1843.

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

Arthur Schopenhauer

What a Man Is

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Topic

Philistinism

Author

Arthur Schopenhauer

Source

What a Man Is Parerga and Paralipomena

Language

German

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorismen zu Lebensweisheit: Bon Dem, was Einer ist [Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life: What a Man is]." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 1, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

Current Citation

Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the wisdom of life." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Sabine Roehr and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2016.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Margaret Sanger

Woman and the New Race

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Topic

Women's rights

Author

Margaret Sanger

Source

Woman and the New Race

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Sanger, Margaret. Woman and the New Race. Brentano's, 1920, ch. 8.

Taste...Is the only morality...Tell me what you like, and I'll tell you what you are.

John Ruskin

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Topic

Taste

Speaker

John Ruskin

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Ruskin, John. "Traffic." c. 1864, Town Hall, Bradford, England, UK. Lecture.

Current Citation

Ruskin, John. Traffic. Penguin UK, 2015.

One of the best things about love is just recognizing a man's step when he climbs the stairs.

Colette

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Topic

Lifelong love Love

Author

Colette

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

French

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Colette. Looking Backwards. Peter Owen, 1975.

Prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish, and someday, you will be a real boy.

Pinocchio

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Topic

Formation of character Growing up

Speaker

The Blue Fairy

Actor

Evelyn Venable

Source

Pinocchio

Medium

Film

Genre

Animation (film) Musical (film) Animation Musical

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Pinocchio. Directed by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, Walt Disney Productions, 1940.

The most decisive actions of our life-I mean those that our most likely to decide the whole course of our future-are more often than not, unconsidered.

Andre Gide

The Counterfeiters

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Topic

Inflection points

Speaker

Hildebrant

Author

Andre Gide

Source

The Counterfeiters

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

French

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gide, Andre. Les Faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters]. Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1925, pt. 3, ch. 16.

Current Citation

Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy. Penguin Books, 1990, pt. 3, ch. 16.

The pleasure of love is in the loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we arouse.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections

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Topic

Loving others

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.

I would just like to say that no one ever asked me to lie and I was never promised a job for my silence. And that I'm sorry. I'm really sorry for everything that's happened. And I hate Linda Tripp.

Monica Lewinsky

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Topic

Political scandals American politics

Speaker

Monica Lewinsky

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Lewinsky, Monica. Grand jury testimony. 6 Aug. 1998, Washington, DC, USA.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life…but what is that something?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Topic

What really matters Value of life

Speaker

Riviere

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Source

Night Flight

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Question

Language

French

Time

1931 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Vol de Nuit [Night Flight]. Éditions Gallimard, 1931, ch. 14.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

Norman Mailer

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Topic

Newspapers

Author

Norman Mailer

Source

She Thought the Russians Was Coming Esquire

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mailer, Norman. "She Thought the Russians Was Coming." Esquire, 1 June 1960.