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Yes, injured Woman! rise, assert thy right!

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

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Women's rights Activism

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Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Source

The Rights of Women

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Orders and commands

Language

English

Time

1825 1820s 19th century

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Barbauld, Anna Laetitia. "The Rights of Woman." The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld With a Memoir by Lucy Aikin. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825.

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Barbauld, Anna Laetitia. "The Rights of Woman." The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: With a Memoir, edited by Lucy Aikin. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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I can't believe the news today
Oh, I can't close my eyes and make it go away
How long? How long must we sing this song?

U2

Sunday Bloody Sunday

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The Troubles

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U2

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Sunday Bloody Sunday

Genre

Rock music

Language

English

Time

1983 1980s 20th century

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U2. "Sunday Bloody Sunday." War. Island Records, 1983.

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Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Zora Neale Hurston

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Nature of God

Author

Zora Neale Hurston

Source

Tell My Horse

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

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Hurston, Zora Neale. Tell My Horse. J.B. Lippincott Co., 1938, ch. 15.

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So our Lord God commonly gives riches to those gross asses to whom He vouchsafes nothing else.

Martin Luther

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God and money Wealth

Author

Martin Luther

Source

Table Talk (Luther)

Language

German

Time

1566 1560s 16th century

Era

Protestant Reformation

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Luther, Martin. Tischreden [Table Talk]. Eisleben, 1566.

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Luther, Martin. The Table Talk of Martin Luther, edited by Thomas S. Kepler. Dover Press, 2005.

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This noble eightfold path…right views, right aspirations, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right contemplation.

The Pali Canon

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Liberation from suffering Liberation

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The Pali Canon

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Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Pali

Time

250 BC 250s BC 3rd century BC

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The Pali Canon. Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, verse 4.

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Time is relative, okay? It can stretch and it can squeeze, but...it can't run backwards. Just can't. The only thing that can move across dimensions, like time, is gravity.

Interstellar

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Nature of time Time

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Brand

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Anne Hathaway

Source

Interstellar

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Film

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

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English

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

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Interstellar. Directed by Christopher Nolan, Legendary Pictures/Syncopy/Lynda Obst Productions, 2014.

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Janie's a pretty typical teenager. Angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that's all going to pass, but I don't want to lie to her.

American Beauty

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Adolescence Alienation The human condition

Speaker

Lester Burnham

Actor

Kevin Spacey

Source

American Beauty

Medium

Film

Genre

Black comedy (film) Comedy drama (film) Black comedy Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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American Beauty. Directed by Sam Mendes, Jinks/Cohen Company, 1999.

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For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord.

God

Exodus 12:12

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Passover God's wrath

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God

Source

Exodus 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: The King James Version. 1611. (Exodus 12:12).

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Can one desire too much of a good thing?

William Shakespeare

As You Like It

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Excess Desire

Speaker

Rosalind

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

As You Like It

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 4, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 1.

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I think there is blame on both sides. You look at, you look at both sides.

Donald Trump

On the 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that included white supremacists and counter-demonstrators.

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American politics

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Donald Trump

Medium

Press conference

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English

Time

2017 2010s 21st century

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Trump, Donald. Statement about deadly violence in Virginia. 15 Aug. 2017, Trump Tower, New York City, NY, USA. Press conference.

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While in Europe, I often amused myself with contemplating the characters of the then reigning sovereigns of Europe. Lous XVI was a fool, of my own knowledge, and in despite of the answers made at his trial. The King of Spain was a fool, and of Naples the same. They passed their lives in hunting, and despatched two courtiers a week, one thousand miles, to let each other know what game they had killed the preceding days. The King of Sardinia was a fool. All these were Bourbons. The Queen of Portugal, a Braganza, was an idiot by nature. And so was the King of Denmark. Their sons, as regents, exercised the powers of government. The King of Prussia, successor to the great Frederick, was a mere hog in body as well as in mind. Gustavus of Sweden, and Joseph of Austria, were really crazy, and George of England you know was in a straight waistcoat.

Thomas Jefferson

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Anti-monarchism

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Thomas Jefferson

Source

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1810 1810s 19th century

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to Governor John Langdon. 5 Mar. 1810.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "Governor John Langdon, March 5, 1810." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

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You and I, ought not to die, before We have explained ourselves to each other.

John Adams

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The Founders

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John Adams

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Letters of John Adams

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1813 1810s 19th century

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Adams, John. Letter to Thomas Jefferson. 15 July 1813.

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John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 15 July 1813, with Postscript from Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson, [ca. 15 July 1813],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-06-02-0247.

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Time is the great physician.

Benjamin Disraeli

Henrietta Temple

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Effects of time Time Healing

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Ferdinand

Author

Benjamin Disraeli

Source

Henrietta Temple

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Henrietta Temple. London: Henry Colburn, 1837, bk. 6, ch. 9.

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Fuck management.

John Wick

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The man Management

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Ms. Perkins

Actor

Adrianne Palicki

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John Wick

Medium

Film

Genre

Neo-noir Action (film) Action

Language

English

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

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John Wick. Directed by Chad Stahelski, Thunder Road Pictures/87Eleven Productions/MJW Films/DefyNite Films, 2014.

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Anywhere is better than Paris. Paris the cold, Paris the drizzly, Paris the rainy, Paris the Damnable. More than a hundred years ago, somebody asked Quin, "Did you ever see such a winter in all your life before?" "Yes," said he, "last summer." I judge he spent his summer in Paris.

Mark Twain

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Paris

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Mark Twain

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Letters of Mark Twain

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Letter

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English

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

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Twain, Mark. Letter to Lucius Fairchild. 28 Apr. 1880.

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Nought may endure but Mutability.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The only constant is change Impermanence Change

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source

Mutability

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1816 1810s 19th century

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Mutability." Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude: And Other Poems. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1816, I. 16.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Mutability." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 16.

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The social state is at once so natural, so necessary, and so habitual to man, that...he never conceives himself otherwise than as a member of a body.

John Stuart Mill

Utiliarianism

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Man as social animal

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John Stuart Mill

Source

Utiliarianism

Language

English

Time

1861 1860s 19th century

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Mill, John Stuart. "Utilitarianism." Fraser's Magazine, 1861, ch. 3.

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Mill, John Stuart. "Utilitarianism." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 3.

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Look before you leap.

Robert Greene

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Caution

Author

Robert Greene

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Greene's Never Too Late

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English

Time

1590 1590s 16th century

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Greene, Robert. Greene's Never Too Late. c. 1590.

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A friend in need is a pest.

Wedding Crashers

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Friends

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Jeremy Grey

Actor

Vince Vaughn

Source

Wedding Crashers

Medium

Film

Genre

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

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

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Wedding Crashers. Directed by David Dobkin. New Line Cinema/Tapestry Films, 2005.

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A dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidden appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 1

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Populism Demagoguery Tyranny Politics

Author

Alexander Hamilton

Source

Federalist 1 The Federalist Papers

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1787 1780s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

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Hamilton, Alexander [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 1: General Introduction." Independent Journal, 27 Oct. 1787.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "No. I: Deliberation on a new constitution--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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