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For this thing was not done in a corner.

Apostle Paul

Acts 26:26

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Topic

Jesus's resurrection

Speaker

Apostle Paul

Source

Acts The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

62 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Acts 26:26).

I'm in the prime of my youth, and I'll only be young once!

Stand By Me

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Topic

Youth

Speaker

Teddy Duchamp

Actor

Corey Feldman

Source

Stand By Me

Medium

Film

Genre

Coming of age (film) Coming of age

Language

English

Time

1986 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Stand By Me. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Productions, 1986.

It rests now with ourselves alone to enjoy in peace and concord the blessings of self-government, so long denied to mankind: to shew by example the sufficiency of human reason for the care of human affairs and that the will of the majority, the Natural law of every society, is the only sure guardian of the rights of man.

Thomas Jefferson

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Topic

Democracy Political theory

Author

Thomas Jefferson

Language

English

Time

1790 1790s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Jefferon, Thomas. "The Response." 12 Feb. 1790.

Current Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. "The Response, 12 February 1790." The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: November 1789 to 4 July 1790, edited by Julian P. Boyd. Vol. 16, Princeton University Press, 1961.

Love, unconquerable,
Waster of rich men, keeper
Of warm lights and all-night vigil
In the soft face of a girl:
Sea-wanderer, forest-visitor!
Even the pure immortals cannot escape you,
And mortal man, in his one day's dusk,
Trembles before your glory.

Sophocles

Antigone

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Topic

Power of love Love

Speaker

Chorus

Author

Sophocles

Source

Antigone

Medium

Play

Genre

Greek tragedy Tragedy (play)

Language

Greek

Time

442 BC 440s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Sophocles. Ἀντιγόνη [Antigone]. c. 441 BC, Festival of Dionysus, Athens, Greece.

Current Citation

Sophocles. "Antigone." The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. Mariner Books, 2002.

Emma was like all his other mistresses; and as the charm of novelty gradually slipped from her like a piece of her clothing, he saw revealed in all its nakedness the eternal monotony of passion, which always assumes the same forms and always speaks the same language.

Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary

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New love Infatuation Fading love Love

Author

Gustave Flaubert

Source

Madame Bovary

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1856 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

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

Current Citation

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

Look, it doesn’t take a genius to know that any organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn’t have two presidents; a boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be without the popes?

Oscar Martinez

The Office

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Topic

Leadership Management Organizational culture

Speaker

Oscar Martinez

Actor

Oscar Nuñez

Source

The Office

Medium

TV program

Genre

Comedy (TV) Comedy

Statement Type

Sarcasm

Language

English

Time

2009 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"The Promotion." The Office, written by Greg Daniels and Jennifer Celotta and Ricky Gervais, directed by Jennifer Celotta, season 6, episode 3, Deedle-Dee Productions and Reveille Productions, 2009.

If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered: "To fight against Fascism," and if you had asked me what I was fighting for, I should have answered: "Common decency."

George Orwell

Homage to Catalonia

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Topic

Spanish Civil War Political progress Fascism

Author

George Orwell

Source

Homage to Catalonia

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Orwell, George. Homage to Catalonia. Secker and Warburg, 1938, ch. 5.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Henry Miller

Tropic of Cancer

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Topic

Freedom in poverty

Author

Henry Miller

Source

Tropic of Cancer

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1934 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Miller, Henry. Tropic of Cancer. Obelisk Press, 1934.

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

Ecclesiastes 3:11

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Topic

Omnipotence of God God

Source

Ecclesiastes The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

931 BC 930s BC 10th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (Ecclesiastes 3:11).

No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.

Jesus

Luke 11:33

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Topic

Evangelism Candles

Speaker

Jesus

Source

Gospel of Luke The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

61 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Luke 11:33).

Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees.

Stonewall Jackson

Last words.

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Stonewall Jackson

Statement Type

Last words

Language

English

Time

1863 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jackson, Stonewall. Last words. 10 May 1863, Guinea, Virginia, USA.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Seneca the Younger

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Topic

Acquisitiveness Desire Materialism Attachment (Buddhism)

Author

Seneca the Younger

Source

Epistles (Seneca the Younger)

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

65 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

Current Citation

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Every day were are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

St. Jerome

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Topic

The only constant is change Inevitability of death

Author

St. Jerome

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

396 390s 4th century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Saint Jerome. Letter to Heliodorus." c. 396, sect. 19.

Current Citation

Saint Jerome. "Letter LX." Select Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2015, sect. 19.

Tuesday has no feel. Monday has a feel, Friday has a feel, Sunday has a feel.

Newman

Seinfeld

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Topic

Days of the week

Speaker

Newman

Actor

Wayne Knight

Source

Seinfeld

Medium

TV program

Genre

Sitcom Comedy (TV) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"The Sniffing Accountant." Seinfeld, written by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, directed by Tom Cherones, season 5, episode 4, Shapiro/West Productions and Castle Rock Entertainment, 1993.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Winston Churchill

The Second World War

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Topic

My enemy's enemy Hitler Hell The devil

Author

Winston Churchill

Source

The Second World War

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Churchill, Winston. Note to his personal secretary John Colville. 21 June 1941.

The world is what it is.

V.S. Naipaul

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Topic

Impossibility of progress The world

Author

V.S. Naipaul

Source

A Bend in the River

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Naipaul, V. S. A Bend in the River. Alfred A Knopf, 1979, pt. 1.

You are not the guy. You're not capable of being the guy. I had a guy, but now I don't. You-are not the guy.

Breaking Bad

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Topic

Incompetence

Speaker

Mike Ehrmantraut

Actor

Jonathan Banks

Source

Breaking Bad

Medium

TV program

Genre

Crime (TV) Drama (TV) Crime Drama

Statement Type

Insult

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"Shotgun." Breaking Bad, written by Vince Gilligan and Thomas Schnauz, directed by Michelle MacLaren, season 4, episode 5, High Bridge Productions and Gran Via Productions, 2011.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

Sinclair Lewis

It Can't Happen Here

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Topic

Social hierarchy Domination and subordination

Author

Sinclair Lewis

Source

It Can't Happen Here

Medium

Novel

Genre

Dystopian fiction

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 17.

It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens, nor yet we, the male citizens, but we, the whole people, who formed this Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people-women as well as men.

Susan B. Anthony

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Topic

Women's rights Women's equality

Speaker

Susan B. Anthony

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1873 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Anthony, Susan B. “Women’s Rights to the Suffrage." 17 June 1873, Rochester, NY, USA.

We never know how high we are
Till we are asked to rise
And then if we are true to plan
Our statures touch the skies.

Emily Dickinson

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Topic

Capacity for greatness Human potential

Author

Emily Dickinson

Source

We Never Know How High We Are

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1886 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Dickinson, Emily. We Never Know How High We Are. Poems by Emily Dickinson: Third Series. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896, I. 1.

Current Citation

Dickinson, Emily. "We Never Know How High We Are." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.