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Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Topic

World War II

Speaker

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Statement Type

Promises and vows

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Campaign address. 30 Oct. 1940, Boston, MA, USA.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Topic

Sympathy Moral theory Morality

Author

Edward Gibbon

Source

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1781 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 3, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1781, ch. 49.

Current Citation

Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 3. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 49.

Think of it, soldiers; from the summit of these pyramids, forty centuries look down upon you.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Speech to the French army in Egypt on July 21st, 1798, before the Battle of the Pyramids.

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Topic

Egypt History

Speaker

Napoleon Bonaparte

Source

Memoires de Napoleon

Medium

Speech

Genre

Military speech

Language

French

Time

1823 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bonaparte, Napoleon. Quoted in Memoirs of the History of France During the Reign of Napoleon, written by Gaspard Gourgaud. Vol. 2, London: Henry Colburn, 1823. Originally stated during a speech prior to the Battle of the Pyramids [Battle of Embabeh]. 21 July 1798, Embabeh, Egypt.

You're talking about mass murder, General, not war!

Dr. Strangelove

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Topic

War

Speaker

President Merkin Muffley

Actor

Peter Sellers

Source

Dr. Strangelove

Medium

Film

Genre

Black comedy (film) War (film) Black comedy War

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Dr. Strangelove. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Hawk Films, 1964.

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

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Topic

Prejudice and bias Education

Author

Charlotte Brontë

Source

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 3, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 29.

Current Citation

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 29.

Good prose is like a windowpane.

George Orwell

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Topic

Good writing Power of literature Writing

Author

George Orwell

Source

Why I Write

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 0

Original Citation

Orwell, George. "Why I Write." Gongrel, No. 4, Summer 1946.

Current Citation

Orwell, George. "Why I Write." Selected Essays, edited by Stefan Collini. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
The glorious Sun uprist.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Topic

Sunrise The sun

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Medium

Poem

Genre

Narrative poem

Language

English

Time

1798 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, pt. 2.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 2.

With the Past as past I have nothing to do, nor with the Future as future. I live now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Topic

Being present Living in the moment Past and present Present and future

Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1839 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journal entry. 18 Sept. 1839.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

Mark Twain

Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Topic

Death as a blessing Death Adam Original sin

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Pudd'nhead Wilson

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Misdirection

Language

English

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." The Century Magazine, Nov. 1893-Oct. 1894.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. "Pudd'nhead Wilson." Pudd'nHead Wilson and Other Tales, edited by R.D. Gooder. Oxford University Press, 2009.

For want of Nail the Shoe is lost;
For want of a Shoe the Horse is lost;
For want of a Horse the Rider is lost.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Topic

Butterfly effect Little things make a big difference

Author

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

Source

Poor Richard's Almanack

Medium

Almanac

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1752 1750s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard Improved. Philadelphia, 1752.

Current Citation

Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard Improved." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

Zeus, author of all, worker of all! For what is brought to pass for mortal men save by will of Zeus? What herein is not wrought of god?

Aeschylus

Agamemnon

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Topic

God as first cause God and man God

Speaker

Chorus

Author

Aeschylus

Source

Agamemnon

Medium

Play

Genre

Greek tragedy Tragedy (play)

Language

Greek

Time

458 BC 450s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Aeschylus. Agamemnon. 458 BCE, The Dionysia, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Aeschylus. "Agamemnon." The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides, edited and translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 1984.

No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Mark Twain

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Topic

Marriage Men and women Love

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Journals of Mark Twain

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 21. Originally from Notebook, c. 1894.

No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness.

The Seventh Seal

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Topic

Facing death Fear of death Death Oblivion

Speaker

Antonius Block

Actor

Max von Sydow

Source

The Seventh Seal

Medium

Film

Genre

Fantasy drama (film) Drama (film) Fantasy drama Drama

Language

Swedish

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Det sjunde inseglet [The Seventh Seal]. Directed by Ingmar Bergman, Svensk Filmindustri, 1957.

Being brave doesn't mean you go looking for trouble.

The Lion King

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Topic

Nature of courage Courage

Speaker

Mufasa

Actor

James Earl Jones

Source

The Lion King

Medium

Film

Genre

Animation (film) Musical (film) Animation Musical

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Lion King. Directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Feature Animation, 1994.

Thy sleep shall be sweet.

Proverbs 3:24

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Topic

Sleep

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: The King James Version. 1611. (Proverbs 3:24).

All I do is dream of you the whole night through.

Singin' in the Rain

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Topic

Being in love Dreams

Speaker

Kathy Selden

Actor

Debbie Reynolds

Source

Singin' in the Rain

Medium

Song Film

Genre

Musical (film) Romantic comedy (film) Musical Romantic comedy

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

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Citation

"All I Do Is Dream of You." Singin' in the Rain. Directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, performed by Debbie Reynolds, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1952.

Cause baby there ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Ain't no river wide enough
To keep me from getting to you, babe

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

Ain't No Mountain High Enough

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Topic

Nature of love

Speaker

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

Source

Ain't No Mountain High Enough United

Medium

Song

Genre

Pop music Soul

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Simpson, Valerie and Nickolas Ashford. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." Performed by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. United. Tamla Records, 1967.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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Topic

Old age Trouble sleeping Sleep Death

Author

Herman Melville

Source

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 29.

Current Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 29.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

Karl Marx

The German Ideology

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Topic

Philosophy Changing the world

Author

Karl Marx

Source

The German Ideology

Genre

Historical literature

Language

German

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 0

Original Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. Die deutsche Ideologie [The German Ideology]. Marx–Engels–Lenin Institute, 1932.

Current Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The German Ideology. Prometheus, 1998.

A man's character is his fate.

Heraclitus

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Character

Author

Heraclitus

Medium

Presocratic fragment Fragment

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Heraclitus. Fragments. 5th century BC, DK B119.

Current Citation

Heraclitus. Fragments, translated by Brooks Haxton. Penguin Classics, 2003.