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Marriage is a sacrament which I detest... Because it is the tomb of love.

Giacomo Casanova

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Fading love Love Marriage

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Giacomo Casanova

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Histoire de Ma Vie

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

Italian

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

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Casanova, Giacomo. Histoire de ma vie [History of My Life]. Paris, c. 1838.

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Casanova, Giacomo. History of My Life, vols. 9 & 10, translated by Willard R. Trask. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

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You play ball like a girl!

The Sandlot

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Baseball

Speaker

Ham Porter

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Patrick Renna

Source

The Sandlot

Medium

Film

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Coming of age (film) Sports (film) Coming of age Sports

Statement Type

Insult

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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The Sandlot. Directed by David Mickey Evans, Island World, 1993.

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He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry, "A young man not yet, an elder man not at all."

Francis Bacon

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Marriage

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Francis Bacon

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Of Marriage and Single Life Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1625 1620s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Bacon, Francis "Of Marriage and Single Life." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Marriage and Single Life." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends;
Where rolled the ocean, thereon was his home;
Where a blue sky, and glowing clime, extends,
He had the passion and the power to roam.

Lord Byron

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

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Love of nature Nature

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Lord Byron

Source

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1818 1810s 19th century

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Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. London: John Murray, 1812-1818, canto 3, st. 13.

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Lord Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage." Lord Byron: The Major Works, edited by Jerome J. McGann. Oxford University Press, 2008, canto 3, st. 13.

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We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Vietnam War American politics

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Statement Type

Broken promise Promises and vows

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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Johnson, Lyndon B. Remarks in Memorial Hall. 21 Oct. 1964, Memorial Hall, Akron University, Akron, OH, USA.

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For secrets are edg'd Tools,
And must be kept from Children and from Fools.

John Dryden

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Secrets

Speaker

Warner

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John Dryden

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Sir Martin Mar-All

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1667 1660s 17th century

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Dryden, John. Sir Martin Mar-All. 1667, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 2.

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Dryden, John. "Sir Martin Mar-all." The Works of John Dryden, edited by John Loftis and Vinton A. Dearing. Vol. 9, University of California Press, 1967, act 2, sc. 2

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Bigamy is having one husband too many. Monogamy is the same.

Erica Jong

Fear of Flying

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Marriage

Author

Erica Jong

Source

Fear of Flying

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Joke

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Anonymous woman quoted in Fear of Flying, written by Erica Jong. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973.

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They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true... What they don't tell you is that once time starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.

Big Fish

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Falling in love Soulmates

Speaker

Edward Bloom (Young)

Actor

Ewan McGregor

Source

Big Fish

Medium

Film

Genre

Fantasy (film) Comedy drama (film) Fantasy Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Big Fish. Directed by Tim Burton, Columbia Pictures/Jinks/Cohen Company/The Zanuck Company, 2003.

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Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Counsels and Maxims

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Mornings

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Source

Counsels and Maxims Parerga and Paralipomena

Language

German

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorismen zu Lebensweisheit: Varanesen und Maximen [Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life: Counsels and Maxims]." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 1, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the wisdom of life." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Sabine Roehr and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Actions receive their tincture from the times,
And as they change, are virtues made or crimes.

Daniel Defoe

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Custom and convention Moral relativism Moral theory Morality

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Daniel Defoe

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A Hymn to the Pillory

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1703 1700s 18th century

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Defoe, Daniel. A Hymn to the Pillory. London: 1703, I. 29.

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That girl was young, and she made a mistake that young girls make. She wanted to fuck a powerful man. Period. That’s as far as she thought it through.

Dave Chappelle

Killin' Them Softly

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Power as aphrodisiac

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Dave Chappelle

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Killin' Them Softly

Medium

Comedy special

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

2000 2000s 21st century

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Chappelle, Dave. Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly. HBO, 26 July 2000.

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Have...a good...time...all the time. That's my philosophy, Marty.

This is Spinal Tap

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Having fun

Speaker

Viv Savage

Actor

David Kaff

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This is Spinal Tap

Medium

Film

Genre

Mockumentary Comedy (film) Comedy

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

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This is Spinal Tap. Directed by Rob Reiner, Spinal Tap Prod., 1984.

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The artist must take sides.

Paul Robeson

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Art and politics Political neutrality Art Politics

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Paul Robeson

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The Artist Must Take Sides (Speech)

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Speech

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English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

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Robeson, Paul. "The Artist Must Take Sides." National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief in aid of the Spanish Refugee Children. 24 June 1937, Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK.

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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency-the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Allan Bloom

The Closing of the American Mind

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Ignorance of history Books

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Allan Bloom

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The Closing of the American Mind

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Political literature Philosophical literature

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English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. Simon & Schuster, 1987.

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You can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something…because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path and that will make all the difference.

Steve Jobs

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In retrospect Connecting the dots The road less travelled Following your heart Taking risks

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Steve Jobs

Source

2005 Stanford commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

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Jobs, Steve. Stanford Commencement Address. 12 June 2005, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

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What I am describing now is a plan and a hope for the long term—the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash-heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.

Ronald Reagan

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Spread of freedom and democracy

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Ronald Reagan

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Political speech

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English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

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Reagan, Ronald. Address to British Parliament. Parliament meeting. 8 June 1982, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure; and he that hath little business shall become wise.

Ben Sira

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Wisdom Leisure

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Ben Sira

Source

Ecclesiasticus

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Religious literature Wisdom literature

Language

Greek

Time

175 BC 170s BC 2nd century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ecclesiastus 38:24).

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The Bible: Authorized King James Version, edited by Robert Carroll and Stephen Prickett. Oxford University Press, 2008. (Ecclesiastus 38:24).

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Well, they're saved from the blessings of civilization.

Stagecoach

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Civilization

Speaker

Doc Josiah Boone

Actor

Thomas Mitchell

Source

Stagecoach

Medium

Film

Genre

Western (film) Western

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

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Stagecoach. Directed by John Ford, Walter Wanger Productions, 1939.

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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Amelia E. Barr

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The Belle of Bowling Green

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Nature of love Love

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Amelia E. Barr

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The Belle of Bowling Green

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Novel

Language

English

Time

1904 1900s 20th century

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Barr, Amelia E. The Belle of Bowling Green. Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1904.

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In the new Code of Laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.

Abigail Adams

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Feminism Oppression of women Men and women Tyranny Exploration

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Abigail Adams

Source

Letters of Abigail Adams

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1776 1770s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

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Adams, Abigail. Letter to John Adams. 31 Mar. 1776.

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Adams, Abigail. My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams, edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor. Belknap Press, 2010.

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