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That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love;
It is enough, the freight should be
Proportioned to the groove.

Emily Dickinson

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Power of love Love

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Emily Dickinson

Source

That Love Is All There Is

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1886 1880s 19th century

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Dickinson, Emily. "That Love Is All There Is." A Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime, edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Little, Brown and Company, 1914, I. 1.

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Dickinson, Emily. "That Love Is All There Is." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 1.

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So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed,
And yet anon repairs his drooping head,
And tricks his beams, and with new spangled Ore,
Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

John Milton

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Sunset Sunrise The sun

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John Milton

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Lycidas Justa Edouardo King Naufrago ab Amicis morentibus, amoris

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1638 1630s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Milton, John. "Lycidas." Justa Edouardo King Naufrago ab Amicis morentibus, amoris [Just Edward King Shipwrecked by Dying Friends, of love. Cambridge: Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, 1638.

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Milton, John. "Lycidas." John Milton: The Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Shut up, I'm having a rhetorical conversation.

The Producers

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Shutting up

Speaker

Max Bialystock

Actor

Zero Mostel

Source

The Producers

Medium

Film

Genre

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

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

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The Producers. Directed by Mel Brooks, Crossbow Productions, AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1967.

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Death comes for us all, my lords. Yes, even for kings he comes.

A Man for All Seasons (film)

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Death The human condition

Speaker

Sir Thomas More

Actor

Paul Scofield

Source

A Man for All Seasons (film)

Medium

Film

Genre

Biography (film) Drama (film) Biography Drama

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

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A Man for All Seasons. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Highland Films, 1966.

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Goddammit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like living in jail.

Richard Wright

Native Son

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Black experience Race relations

Speaker

Bigger Thomas

Author

Richard Wright

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Native Son

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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Wright, Richard. Native Son. Harper & Brothers, 1940, bk. 1.

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Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

G.K. Chesterton

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Art

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G.K. Chesterton

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Illustrated London Times

Medium

Magazine

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English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Chesterton, G.K. "Our Note Book." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 34, Ignatius Press, 1991. Originally published by Illustrated London Times, 5 May 1928.

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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Purpose of life Authenticity Personal growth

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1882 1880s 19th century

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. Familiar Studies of Men and Books. London: Chatto & Windus, 1882.

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Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Stella Benson

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This is the End

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Enemies Strangers

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Stella Benson

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This is the End

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

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Benson, Stella. This is the End. Macmillian, 1917.

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I'll shove that bat up your ass and turn you into a popsicle.

The Warriors

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Ajax

Actor

James Remar

Source

The Warriors

Medium

Film

Genre

Action (film) Crime (film) Action Crime

Statement Type

Threat

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

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The Warrors. Directed by Walter Hill, Lawrence Gordon Productions, 1979.

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Whoso taketh in hand to frame any state or government, ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Political theory Setting up a government Government

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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The Cabinet-Council

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1618 1610s 17th century

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Raleigh, Walter. The Cabinet-Council. London: Thomas Johnson, 1658, ch. 26.

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I see you're drinking one percent. Is that cause you think you're fat? Cause you're not. You could be drinking whole if you wanted to.

Napoleon Dynamite

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Milk

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Napoleon Dynamite

Actor

Jon Heder

Source

Napoleon Dynamite

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Statement Type

Compliment

Language

English

Time

2004 2000s 21st century

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Napoleon Dynamite. Directed by Jared Hess, Fox Searchlight Pictures/Paramount Pictures/MTV Films, 2004.

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I am tired of fighting... I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead.

Chief Joseph

Speech of surrender at end of the Nez Perce War, October 5th, 1877.

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US and Native American relations

Speaker

Chief Joseph

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Speech

Language

English

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

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Chief Joseph. "I Will No Longer Fight Forever More." 5 Oct. 1877, Blaine County, Montana Territory, USA.

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Censorship of any form punishes curiosity.

Sherman Alexie

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Censorship Freedom of speech and expression Curiosity

Speaker

Sherman Alexie

Source

Guernica

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

2012 2010s 21st century

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Alexie, Sherman. "Sherman Alexie: The Value of Subverting Authority." Guernica, 5 Oct. 2012.

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Freedom is life's great lie. Once you accept that, in your heart, you will know peace.

The Avengers

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Freedom

Speaker

Loki

Actor

Tom Hiddleston

Source

The Avengers

Medium

Film

Genre

Superhero (film) Superhero

Language

English

Time

2012 2010s 21st century

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The Avengers. Directed by Joss Whedon, Marvel Studios, 2012.

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When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.

Desmond Tutu

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Desmond Tutu

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2004 2000s 21st century

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Tutu, Desmond. God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time. Doubleday, 2004.

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Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

Fred Rogers

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Solitude Loneliness

Author

Fred Rogers

Source

The World According to Mister Rogers

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 31.

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Wine may well be considered the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

Louis Pasteur

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Wine Alcohol

Author

Louis Pasteur

Medium

Essay

Language

French

Time

1873 1870s 19th century

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Pasteur, Louis. Etudes Des Vin [On the studies of wine]. Paris: Librairie Savy, 1873.

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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

On Conciliation with America

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Political strategy Politics

Speaker

Edmund Burke

Source

On Conciliation with America

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1775 1770s 18th century

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with America." House of Commons. 22 Mar. 1775, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

Boris Pasternak

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Living in the moment Being present

Speaker

Yuri Andreievich Zhivago

Author

Boris Pasternak

Source

Doctor Zhivago (novel)

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

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Pasternak, Boris. До́ктор Жива́го [Dr. Zhivago]. Feltrinelli, 1957, pt. 2, ch. 9, sect. 14.

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Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Vintage International, 2011, pt. 2, ch. 9, sect. 14.

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He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Jesus

Matthew 11:15

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Listening

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Jesus

Source

Gospel of Matthew The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

60 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 11:15).

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