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I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

Menander

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Keeping it real Honesty

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Menander

Medium

Fragment

Language

Greek

Time

290 BC 290s BC 3rd century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Plutarch. Apophthegmata Laconica. c. 100 AD.

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Conscience. What a thing. If you believe you got a conscience it'll pester you to death. But if you don't believe you got one, what could it do t'ya?

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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Conscience

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Fred C. Dobbs

Actor

Humphrey Bogart

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Medium

Film

Genre

Western (film) Western

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros.-First National, 1948.

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That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably share silence.

Pulp Fiction

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Comfortable silence Silence Relationships

Speaker

Mia Wallace

Actor

Uma Thurman

Source

Pulp Fiction

Medium

Film

Genre

Neo-noir Crime (film) Crime

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English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

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Pulp Fiction. Directed by Quentin Tarantino, A Band Apart/Jersey Films, 1994.

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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

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Female independence Independence Freedom

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Jane Eyre

Author

Charlotte Brontë

Source

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

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Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 2, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 23.

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Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 23.

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There's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms
As rum and true religion.

Lord Byron

Don Juan

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Religion Alcohol

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Lord Byron

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Don Juan

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1819 1810s 19th century

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Lord Byron. Don Juan. London: John Murray, 1819, canto 2, st. 34.

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Lord Byron. "Don Juan." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 2, st. 34.

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Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.

Heraclitus

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Ephemeral nature of life The human condition

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Heraclitus

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Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

480 BC 480s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Heraclitus. On the Universe. c. 500 BC, no. 77.

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Heraclitus. "On the Universe." Hippocrates, translated by W. H. S. Jones. Vol. 4, Harvard University Press, 1931, no. 77.

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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The sky Man and nature

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Personal journal

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English

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Journal entry. 25 May 1843.

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The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 78

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The judiciary Legal theory Political theory

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Alexander Hamilton

Source

Federalist 78 The Federalist Papers

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1788 1780s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

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Hamilton, Alexander [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 78: The Judiciary Department." The Federalist, A Collection of Essays." New York: J. and A. McLean, 1788.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "No. 78: Duration in office: good behavior. Why needed.--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end;
Not wedlock-treachery.

John Milton

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Conflict resolution Relationship challenges

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Samson

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John Milton

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Tragedy (play) Tragedy

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English

Time

1671 1670s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Milton, John. "Samson Agonistes." Paradise Regained, A Poem in 4 Books, to which is added Samson Agonistes. London: John Starkey, 1671, I. 1008.

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Milton, John. "Samson Agonistes." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 1008.

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Religion is illusion, and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Sigmund Freud

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

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Religion

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Sigmund Freud

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New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

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Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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Freud, Sigmund. New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, translated by James Strachey. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990, lecture 35. Originally published as Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in die Psychoanalyse [New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis]. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1933, lecture 35.

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The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards.

Mencius

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People are basically good Human nature

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Mencius

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Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Chinese

Time

300 BC 300s BC 4th century BC

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Mencius. Mengzi. c. 300 BC, bk. 6.

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Mencius. Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics, 2005, bk. 6.

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Women need to hear compliments all the time. Women need food, water, and compliments. That’s right, that's right, and an occasional pair of shoes.

Chris Rock

Bigger & Blacker

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Human needs

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Chris Rock

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Bigger & Blacker

Medium

Comedy special

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Rock, Chris. Bigger & Blacker. HBO, 10 July 1999.

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To do two things at once is to do neither.

Publilius Syrus

Sententiae

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Multitasking Finishing a task

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Publilius Syrus

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Sententiae

Medium

Epigram

Language

Latin

Time

43 BC 40s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

George Orwell

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Effects of aging Aging

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George Orwell

Source

Journals of George Orwell

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Orwell, George. "Extracts from a Manuscript Note-book." The Collected Essays, Journalism And Letters Of George Orwell, vol. 4: In Front of Your Nose 1943-1945, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 2004, no. 167. Originally written in his diary, 17 Apr. 1949.

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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more content.

William Shakespeare

The Merry Wives of Windsor

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Familiarity breeds contempt Fading love Relationship challenges Relationships Marriage

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Slender

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

The Merry Wives of Windsor

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1602 1600s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. The Merry Wives of Windsor. London: Arthur Johnson, 1602, act 1, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Merry Wives of Windsor." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 1.

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Energy in the Executive is a leading character in the definition of good government.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 70

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Executive branch Political theory Politics

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Alexander Hamilton

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Federalist 70 The Federalist Papers

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Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1788 1780s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

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Hamilton, Alexander [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 70: The Executive Department Further Considered." New York Packet, 18 Mar. 1788.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "No. 70: Energy in the executive. First ingredient: Unity.--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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Man was formed for society.

William Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England

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Man as social animal Nature of man

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William Blackstone

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Commentaries on the Laws of England

Medium

Treatise

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1765 1760s 18th century

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Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book the First. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1765, introduction, sec. 2.

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Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book I Of the Rights of Persons, edited by David Lemmings. Oxford University Press, 2016, introduction, sec. 2.

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I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men, and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America

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Love of money Property rights Greed Money America

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Alexis de Tocqueville

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Democracy in America

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Political literature

Language

French

Time

1835 1830s 19th century

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 1, London: Saunders and Otley, 1835, ch. 3.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 1, ch. 3.

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Your country ain't your blood, you remember that.

The Godfather: Part II

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Family Patriotism

Speaker

Sonny Corleone

Actor

James Caan

Source

The Godfather: Part II

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime (film) Epic (film) Crime Epic

Language

English

Time

1974 1970s 20th century

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The Godfather Part II. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Paramount Pictures Studios/American Zoetrope/Coppola Company, 1974.

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Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as straight; and men may be as positive and peremptory in error as in truth.

John Locke

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

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Erroneous beliefs Convictions Beliefs

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John Locke

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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

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Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1690 1690s 17th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. London: Thomas Basset, 1690, bk. 4, ch. 19, sect. 11.

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Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, edited by Pauline Phemister. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 4, ch. 19, sect. 11.

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