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You can't learn anything when you're talking. That's a fact of life. As long as you're talking, you're not listening.

Rocky Balboa

Creed

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Talking too much Listening

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Rocky Balboa

Actor

Sylvester Stallone

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Creed

Medium

Film

Genre

Sports (film) Drama (film) Sports Drama

Language

English

Time

2015 2010s 21st century

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Creed. Directed by Ryan Coogler, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/New Line Cinema/Chartoff-Winkler Productions, 2015.

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She moves in mysterious ways.

U2

Mysterious Ways

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Holy Spirit God

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U2

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Mysterious Ways Achtung Baby

Medium

Song

Genre

Rock music

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Bono. "Mysterious Ways." Performed by U2. Achtung Baby. Island Records, 1991.

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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Self-expression Art

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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German

Time

1840 1840s 19th century

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Spruche in Prosa Maximen und Reflexionen [Sayings in Prose, Maxims and Reflections]. 1819, no. 739.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Maxims and Reflections, translated by Elizabeth Stopp, edited by Peter Hutchinson. Penguin Books, 2005, no. 739.

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I’ve noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

Ronald Reagan

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Abortion American politics

Speaker

Ronald Reagan

Medium

Political debate

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Reagan, Ronald. Spoken during presidential campaign debate. Campaign debate. 21 Sept. 1980, Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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The marble not yet carved can hold the form
Of every thought the greatest artist has.

Michelangelo

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Untapped potential Art

Author

Michelangelo

Source

Sonnet 15

Medium

Poem

Language

Italian

Time

1564 1560s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Michelangelo. Non ha l' ottimo artista [The Lover and the Sculptor]. c. 1623.

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Michelangelo. "Sonnet 15: The Lover and the Sculptor." Sonnets, translated by Elizabeth Jennings. Routledge, 2002.

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Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

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Limits of language Language

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Gustave Flaubert

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Madame Bovary

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Novel

Language

French

Time

1856 1850s 19th century

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Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary: Moeurs de Province [Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners]. Revue de Paris, 1 Oct. 1856 - 15 Dec. 1856. Serial.

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Flaubert, Gustave. Madame Bovary, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2011, pt. 2, ch. 12.

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It is part of human nature to hate the man you have hurt.

Tacitus

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Hurting others Hate Human nature

Author

Tacitus

Source

Agricola

Genre

Biography

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

Latin

Time

56 50s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Tacitus. Agricola. c. 98.

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Tacitus. "Agricola." Agricola and Germany, translated by Anthony Birley. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Shut your eyes and see.

James Joyce

Ulysses

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Perception Observation

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James Joyce

Source

Ulysses

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Statement Type

Orders and commands Zen koan

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 1, ch. 3.

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Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 3.

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I drink your milkshake! I drink it up!

Daniel Plainview

There Will Be Blood

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Daniel Plainview

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Daniel Day-Lewis

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There Will Be Blood

Medium

Film

Genre

Epic (film) Drama (film) Epic Drama

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English

Time

2007 2000s 21st century

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There Will Be Blood. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Ghoulardi Film Company/Scott Rudin Productions, 2007.

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Memories warm you up from the inside but they also tear you apart.

Haruki Murakami

Kakfa on the Shore

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Memories Nostalgia The past

Author

Haruki Murakami

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Kakfa on the Shore

Medium

Novel

Language

Japanese

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

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Murakami, Haruki. 海辺のカフカ [Kafka on the Shore]. Shinchosha, 2002.

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Moods don't last.
It is their chief charm.

Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance

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Moods

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Mrs. Allonby and Lord Illingworth

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Oscar Wilde

Source

A Woman of No Importance

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

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Wilde, Oscar. A Woman of No Importance. 1893, Haymarket Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1.

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Wilde, Oscar. "A Woman of No Importance." The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 1.

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Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Moses

Deuteronomy 6:4

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Monotheism Nature of God God

Speaker

Moses

Source

Deuteronomy The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (Deuteronomy 6:4).

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We must be the great arsenal of democracy.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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World War II

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Speech

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Political speech

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. "The Arsenal of Democracy." Fireside Chat. 29 Dec. 1940, Diplomatic Reception Room, White House, Washington, DC, USA. Radio broadcast.

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Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Nonviolence Activism

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Nobel Prize Lecture Speech

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Nobel Lecture." Les Prix Nobel en 1964. [The Nobel Peace Prize 1964.] 11 Dec. 1964, Auditorium of the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

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An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

Mark Twain

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Guilty conscience Conscience

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Mark Twain

Source

Journals of Mark Twain

Medium

Personal journal

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1904 1900s 20th century

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 35. Originally from Notebook, c. 1904.

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All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.

Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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The only constant is change Change

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Edward Gibbon

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1789 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 6, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1789, ch. 71.

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Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 6. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 71.

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The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Thomas Jefferson

Notes on the State of Virginia

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Freedom of religion Role of government Political theory

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Thomas Jefferson

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Notes on the State of Virginia

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Political literature

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English

Time

1785 1780s 18th century

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Jefferson, Thomas [published anonymously]. Notes on the State of Virginia. Paris: Philippe Denis Pierres, 1785, query 17.

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Jefferson, Thomas. Notes on the State of Virginia, edited by Frank Shuffelton. Penguin Classics, 1998, query 17.

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I just woke up one day and I knew.

(500) Days of Summer

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Finding the one The one Marriage Love

Speaker

Summer

Actor

Zooey Deschanel

Source

(500) Days of Summer

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy drama (film) Romantic comedy (film) Comedy drama Romantic comedy

Language

English

Time

2009 2000s 21st century

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(500) Days of Summer. Directed by Marc Webb, Searchlight Pictures, Watermark, and RatPac Entertainment, 2009.

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The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Albert Einstein

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Nature of the world Science The world

Author

Albert Einstein

Source

Physics and Reality The Journal of the Franklin Institute

Medium

Academic journal

Genre

Scientific literature

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

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Einstein, Albert. "Physics and Reality." The Journal of the Franklin Institute, Mar. 1936.

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Einstein, Albert. "Physics and Reality." The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works. Penguin, 2008, ch. 13.

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Drunk we lie down in empty hills,
heaven and earth our quilt and pillow.

Li Bai

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Spending time in nature Man and nature

Author

Li Bai

Source

A Night with a Friend

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Poem

Language

Chinese

Time

762 760s 8th century

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Li Po. A Night With a Friend. c. 762.

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Li Po. "A Night With a Friend." The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry, translated and edited by Burton Watson. Columbia University Press, 1984.

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