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It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Steve Jobs

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Product design Business strategy Customers

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Steve Jobs

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English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Jobs, Steve. "Steve Jobs: 'There's Sanity Returning'." Interviewed by Andy Reinhardt. BusinessWeek, 25 May 1998.

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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of Art.

Oscar Wilde

Intentions

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Art market Art and money Art

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Gilbert

Author

Oscar Wilde

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The Critic as Artist Intentions

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1891 1890s 19th century

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist." Intentions. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1891, pt. 2.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist Part II." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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And still they were the same bright, patient stars.

John Keats

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Stars The night sky

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John Keats

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Hyperion Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1820 1820s 19th century

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Keats, John. "Hyperion: A Fragment." Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1820, bk. 1, I. 353.

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Keats, John. "Hyperion: A Fragment." John Keats: The Major Works, edited by Elizabeth Cook. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 1, I. 353.

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It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.

Friedrich Schiller

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Candor Honesty Secrets

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Count of Lerma

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Friedrich Schiller

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Don Carlos

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

German

Time

1787 1780s 18th century

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Schiller, Friedrich. Don Karlos [Don Carlos]. 1787, Hamburg, Germany, act 4, sc. 4.

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Schiller, Friedrich. "Don Carlos." Don Carlos and Mary Stewart, translated by Hilary Collier Sy-Quia. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 4, sc. 4.

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Prose is for ideas,
Verse is for visions.

Henrik Ibsen

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Literature Poetry

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Henrik Ibsen

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Rhyme Letter for Fru Heidberg

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Poem

Language

Norwegian

Time

1871 1870s 19th century

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Ibsen, Henry. "Rimbrev til Fru Heiberg [Rhyme letter to Mrs. Heiberg]." Digte. Copenhagen, 1871.

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There are times when I...I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to earn enough money I can get away from everyone.

Daniel Plainview

There Will Be Blood

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Misanthropy

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Daniel Plainview

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Daniel Day-Lewis

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There Will Be Blood

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Film

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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 and Scott Rudin Productions, 2007.

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I discovered me in the library.

Ray Bradbury

Quoted in Paris Review

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Libraries Self-discovery Reading Books

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Ray Bradbury

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Art of Fiction interview Paris Review

Medium

Interview Magazine

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English

Time

2010 2010s 21st century

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Bradbury, Ray. "Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203." Interviewed by Sam Weller. Paris Review, Spring 2010.

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Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

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Benefits of adversity

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Thoughts on the Education of Daughters

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English

Time

1787 1780s 18th century

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. "Matrimony." Thoughts on the Education of Daughters. London: Joseph Johnson, 1787.

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Wollstonecraft, Mary. "Thoughts on the Education of Daughters." The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, edited by Marilyn Butler and Janet Todd. Vol. 4, Routledge, 2020.

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Do you believe that men have always massacred each other as they do to-day, that they have always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands, idiots, thieves, scoundrels, gluttons, drunkards, misers, envious, ambitious, bloody-minded, calumniators, debauchees, fanatics, hypocrites, and fools?

Voltaire

Candide

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Man and war Human nature The human condition

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Voltaire

Source

Candide

Medium

Novel

Genre

Satire

Language

French

Time

1759 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Voltaire. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide: or, All for the Best]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1759, ch. 21.

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Voltaire. Candide, edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 21.

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The half-life of love is forever.

Junot Diaz

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This is How You Lose Her

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Nature of love Love

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Junot Diaz

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This is How You Lose Her

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Novel

Language

English

Time

2012 2010s 21st century

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Diaz, Junot. "The Cheater's Guide to Love." This Is How You Lose Her. Riverhead Books, 2012.

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I always thought we'd be friends forever.

St. Elmo's Fire

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Nature of friendship Friendship Friends

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Kirby Keger

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Emilio Estevez

Source

St. Elmo's Fire

Medium

Film

Genre

Coming of age (film) Coming of age

Language

English

Time

1985 1980s 20th century

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St. Elmo's Fire. Directed by Joel Schumacher, Channel-Lauren Shuler, 1985.

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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Edmund Burke

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School of hard knocks Learning from mistakes

Author

Edmund Burke

Source

Letters of Edmund Burke

Medium

Open letter Letter

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Burke, Edmund. Two Letters to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France. London: F. and C. Rivington, 1796, letter 1.

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Burke, Edmund. Letters on a Regicide Peace." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, letter 1.

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Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

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Silence is golden Tact and discretion

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George Eliot

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The Impressions of Theoprastus Such

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Essay

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Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

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Eliot, George. Impressions of Theophrastus Such. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1879, ch. 4.

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When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

Michel de Montaigne

Essays

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Cats

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Michel de Montaigne

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Essays

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Essay

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French

Time

1580 1580s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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De Montaigne, Michel. "Apologie de Raimond Sebond [Apology for Raimond Sebond]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "An Apology for Raymond Sebond." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Man's inhumanity to man,
Makes countless thousands mourn!

Robert Burns

Man Was Made to Mourn

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Man's cruelty to man

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Robert Burns

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Man Was Made to Mourn

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1784 1780s 18th century

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Burns, Robert. Man was made to Mourn: A Dirge. 1784, st. 11.

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Burns, Robert. "Man Was Made to Mourn. A Dirge." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994, I. 11.

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Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

Hebrews 13:8

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Nature of Jesus Jesus

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Hebrews The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

69 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Hebrews 13:8).

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Smokey, my friend, you're entering a world of pain.

The Big Lebowski

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Walter Sobchak

Actor

John Goodman

Source

The Big Lebowski

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime comedy (film) Comedy (film) Crime comedy Comedy

Statement Type

Threat

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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The Big Lebowski. Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Working Title Films, 1998.

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She talks just like a woman, yes, she does
She makes love just like a woman, yes, she does
And she aches just like a woman
But she breaks just like a little girl.

Bob Dylan

Just Like a Woman

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Women Vulnerability

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Bob Dylan

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Just Like a Woman Blonde on Blonde

Medium

Song

Genre

Folk rock

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

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Dylan, Bob. "Just Like a Woman." Blonde on Blonde. Columbia Records, 1966.

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Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Jesus

Matthew 7:1

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Judging others Sermon on the Mount

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Jesus

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Gospel of Matthew The Bible

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Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Orders and commands

Language

Greek

Time

60 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 7:1).

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Although Kazakhstan a glorious country, it have a problem, too: economic, social, and Jew.

Borat

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Borat

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Sacha Baron Cohen

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Borat

Medium

Film

Genre

Mockumentary Comedy (film) Comedy

Statement Type

Joke

Language

English

Time

2006 2000s 21st century

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Borat. Directed by Larry Charles, Four by Two Films/Everyman Pictures/20th Century Fox, Dune Entertainment/One America Productions/Ingenious Media/Talkback/Channel 4, 2006.

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