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If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.

Stevie Smith

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Immortality Death

Author

Stevie Smith

Source

Observer

Medium

Newspaper

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Smith, Stevie. Observer. 9 Nov. 1969.

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War is like love, it always finds a way.

Bertolt Brecht

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Inevitability of war War

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The Chaplain

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Bertolt Brecht

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Mother Courage and Her Children

Medium

Play

Language

German

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

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Brecht, Bertolt. Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder [Mother Courage and Her Children]. 1941, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland.

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Brecht, Bertolt. Mother Courage and Her Children, translated by Eric Bentley. Grove Press, 1991.

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Everything that man esteems
Endures a moment or a day.
Love's pleasure drives his love away,
The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

W.B. Yeats

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The ephemeral

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W.B. Yeats

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Two Songs From a Play

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Poem

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English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Yeats, William Butler. "Two Songs From a Play." The Tower. Macmillan & Company, 1928.

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Yeats, William Butler. "Two Songs From a Play." The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Wordsworth Editions, 2000.

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I never liked seein' strangers, guess it's cause no stranger ever good news to me.

Red River

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Strangers

Speaker

Walter Brennan

Actor

Nadine Groot

Source

Red River

Medium

Film

Genre

Western (film) Western

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

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Red River. Directed by Howard Hawks, Monterey Productions, 1948.

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But it’s a resilient place, the world, and its beauty is still astonishing, and as for the mess we’ve made, you can change it, and I believe you’re going to.

Salman Rushdie

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Changing the world The world Progress

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Salman Rushdie

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2015 Emory commencement address

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Speech

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Commencement address

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English

Time

2015 2010s 21st century

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Rushdie, Salman. "Keynote Address." Commencement. 19 May 2015, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

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Where the danger is, also grows the saving power.

Friedrich Hölderlin

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Opportunities

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Friedrich Hölderlin

Source

Patmos

Medium

Poem

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Paradox

Language

German

Time

1808 1800s 19th century

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Hölderlin, Friedrich. Patmos. c. 1808.

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Architecture in general is frozen music.

Friedrich von Schelling

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Architecture

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Friedrich von Schelling

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Philosophy of Art

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Lecture

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Philosophical literature

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German

Time

1803 1800s 19th century

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Schelling, Friedrich. Philosophie der Kunst [Philosophy of Art]. 1802-1803. Lecture series.

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Schelling, Friedrich. The Philosophy of Art, translated by Douglas W. Stott. University of Minnesota Press, 2008.

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If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

Robert Graves

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Poetry

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Robert Graves

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Speech

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English

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1963 1960s 20th century

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Graves, Robert. Speech in London. 6 Dec. 1963, London School of Economics, London, England, UK.

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Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it... It leaves everything as it is.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations

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Philosophy

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Philosophical Investigations

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Philosophical literature

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German

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1953 1950s 20th century

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophische Untersuchungen [Philosophical Investigations]. Suhrkamp, 1953, pt. 1.

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, et. al., edited by P. M. S. Hacker and Joachim Schulte. Wiley Blackwell, 2009, pt. 1.

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Genius is of no country.

Charles Churchill

The Rosciad

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Genius Talent

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Charles Churchill

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The Rosciad

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Poem

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English

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1761 1760s 18th century

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Churchill, Charles. The Rosciad. London: William Flexney, 1741.

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You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Dr. Seuss

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

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Feeling empowered Decisions and choices

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Dr. Seuss

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Oh, the Places You'll Go!

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Children's literature

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English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

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Seuss, Dr. Oh, the Places You'll Go! Random House, 1990.

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For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

T.H. Huxley

A Liberal Education

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Curiosity

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T.H. Huxley

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A Liberal Education

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English

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1868 1860s 19th century

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "A Liberal Education." 1868, Working Men's College, London, England, UK.

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You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.

César Chávez

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Raising consciousness Literacy Oppression Progress Politics

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César Chávez

Source

Speeches of César Chávez

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

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Chávez, César. "What the Future Holds." Commonwealth Club meeting. 9 Nov. 1984, San Francisco, CA, USA.

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Chávez, César. "Address to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, November 9, 1984." The Words of Cesar Chavez. Texas A&M University Press, 2002.

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All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Power of love Love

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Love (Coleridge)

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1799 1790s 18th century

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie." Morning Post, 21 Dec. 1799, I. 1.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Love (1799)." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

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A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

William Cowper

Conversations

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Being right Fools Probability

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William Cowper

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Conversations Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq.

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Poem

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English

Time

1782 1780s 18th century

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Cowper, William. "Conversation." Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. London: J. Johnson, 1782, I. 96.

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Days decrease,
And autumn grows, autumn in everything.

Robert Browning

Andrea del Sarto

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Autumn Seasons

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Robert Browning

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Andrea del Sarto

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1855 1850s 19th century

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Browning, Robert. "Andrea del Sarto." Men and Women. London: Chapman and Hall, 1855, I. 44.

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Browning, Robert. "Andrea del Sarto." Robert Browning: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 44.

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A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

The Revolt of the Masses

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Revolution Changing of generations Political theory

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Jose Ortega y Gasset

Source

The Revolt of the Masses

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature Philosophical literature

Language

Spanish

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

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Ortega y Gasset, Jose. La Rebelion de las Masas [The Revolt of the Masses.] El Sol, 1929, serial.

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Ortega y Gasset, Jose. The Revolt of the Masses. W. W. Norton & Company, 1994, ch. 10.

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I'm sorry that people are so jealous of me. But I can't help it that I'm popular.

Mean Girls

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Haters gonna hate Popularity High school

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Gretchen Wieners

Actor

Lacey Chabert

Source

Mean Girls

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Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Teen (film) Comedy Teen

Language

English

Time

2004 2000s 21st century

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Mean Girls. Directed by Mark Waters, Broadway Video, 2004.

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Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

Judith Butler

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Gender Identity

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Judith Butler

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English

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1990 1990s 20th century

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Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge, 1990, ch. 3, pt. 4.

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In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ! It is he who commands you! It is he who flung you from the gates of Heaven to the depths of Hell!

The Exorcist

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Demons

Speaker

Father Merrin

Actor

Max von Sydow

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The Exorcist

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Film

Genre

Horror (film) Horror

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English

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1973 1970s 20th century

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The Exorcist. Directed by William Friedkin, Hoya Productions, 1973.

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