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No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.

John Donne

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Beauty Grace Aging Middle age

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John Donne

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Elegy IX: The Autumnal Elegies (John Donne)

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1631 1630s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Donne, John. "Elegy IX: The Autumnal." Elegies, edited by E. K. Chambers. Lawrence & Bullen, 1896, I. 1.

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Donne, John. "Elegy: The Autumnal." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, I. 1.

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Mister, if you don’t shut up, I’m gonna kick 100 percent of your ass!

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

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Shutting up

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Brad Hamilton

Actor

Judge Reinhold

Source

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Medium

Film

Genre

Coming of age (film) Comedy (drama) Coming of age Comedy drama

Statement Type

Threat

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Directed by Amy Heckerling,Refugee Films, 1982.

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That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Power of literature Literature

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Quoted in Beloved Infidel: The Education of a Woman, written by Sheilah Graham and Gerold Frank. Henry Holt, 1958, ch. 22.

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The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Hannah Arendt

On Revolution

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Hypocrisy Evil

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Hannah Arendt

Source

On Revolution

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Arendt, Hannah. On Revolution. Penguin Books, 1963, ch. 2, sec. 5.

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If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another man should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.

Pali Tipitaka

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Self-mastery Personal growth

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Pali Tipitaka

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Scripture

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Religious literature

Language

Sanskrit

Time

100 BC 100s BC 2nd century BC

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Pali Tipitaka. c. 100 BC, Khuddaka Nikaya, Dhammapada v. 103.

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Meghaprasara, Matthew. New Guide to the Tipitaka. Sangha of Books, 2013, Dhammapada v. 103.

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The people have the power
The power to dream, to rule
To wrestle the earth from fools.

Patti Smith

People Have the Power

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Patti Smith

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People Have the Power Dream of Life

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Song

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Rock music

Language

English

Time

1988 1980s 20th century

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Smith, Patti and Fred Smith. "People Have the Power." Performed by Patti Smith. Dream of Life. Arista, 1988.

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Life is much more fun when you have to worry about money coming in.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Making a living Personal finances Work

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Renoir: His Life, Art and Letters

Genre

Biography

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

French

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White, Barbara Ehrlich. Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters. Harry N. Abrams, 1984.

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She knows exactly what she's doin'.

The Sandlot

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Women

Speaker

Benny Rodriguez

Actor

Mike Vitar

Source

The Sandlot

Medium

Film

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

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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You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.

Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Business competition Business Capitalism

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Cornelius Vanderbilt

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Letter

Statement Type

Threat

Language

English

Time

1853 1850s 19th century

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Vanderbilt, Cornelius. Letter to Charles Morgan and C. K. Garrison. c. 1853.

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Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.

W.B. Yeats

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Adventure

Speaker

Maire Bruin

Author

W.B. Yeats

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The Land of Heart's Desire

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

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Yeats, William Butler. The Land of Heart's Desire. 1894, Avenue Theatre, London, England, UK.

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Yeats, William Butler. "The Land of Heart's Desire." Yeats's Poetry, Drama and Prose. W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.

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For say a foolish thing enough…
... The same thing
Shall pass at last for absolutely wise,
And not with fools exclusively.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Disinformation Foolishness Fools

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Aurora Leigh

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1856 1850s 19th century

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Aurora Leigh. London: Chapman & Hall, 1857, bk. 6.

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Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. Aurora Leigh. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 6.

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One can't love humanity. One can only love people.

Graham Greene

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Loving others

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Graham Greene

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The Ministry of Fear

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

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Greene, Graham. The Ministry of Fear. William Heinemann, 1943, bk. 3, ch. 2.

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I have bathed in the Poem of the Sea, steeped in
Stars, and milky, devouring the green azures.

Arthur Rimbaud

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Ocean and sea

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Arthur Rimbaud

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The Drunken Boat

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Poem

Language

French

Time

1871 1870s 19th century

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Rimbaud, Arthur. "Le Bateau Ivre [The Drunken Boat]." Les Poetes Maudits, edited by Paul Verlaine. Paris, 1884.

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Rimbaud, Arthur. "Le bateau ivre/The Drunken Boat." Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters, a Bilingual Edition, translated by Wallace Fowlie. University of Chicago Press, 2005.

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I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

George Meredith

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Gender relations Women Men and women

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Sir Austin Feverel

Author

George Meredith

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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

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Novel

Language

English

Time

1859 1850s 19th century

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Meredith, George. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father and Son. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859, ch. 1.

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We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

Seneca the Younger

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Genocide Anti-war War

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Seneca the Younger

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Epistles (Seneca the Younger)

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Letter

Language

Latin

Time

65 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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

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

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For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land.

Deuteronomy 8:7

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Israel

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Deuteronomy The Bible

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Scripture

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Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC

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Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Deuteronomy 8:7).

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In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists.

Paul Gauguin

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Artists Art

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Paul Gauguin

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Letters of Paul Gauguin

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Letter

Language

French

Time

1895 1890s 19th century

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Gauguin, Paul. "Un lettre de paul gauguin: a propos de sevres et du demier." Le Soir, 25 Apr. 1895.

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Gauguin, Paul. The Writings of a Savage, translated by Eleanor Levieux, edited by Daniel Guérin. Da Capo Press, 1996.

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The Great Society lost its greatness in the jungles of Indochina.

George McGovern

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Vietnam War Great Society

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George McGovern

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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McGovern, George. Speech at the University of Oxford. 21 Jan. 1973, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK. Lecture.

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It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Dolores Ibarruri

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Dignity Pride Resistance

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Dolores Ibarruri

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Speech

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Precepts and axioms

Language

French

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

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Ibarruri, Dolores. Speech delivered at a mass meeting. 3 Sept. 1936, Winter Velodrome, Paris, France.

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You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

William Jennings Bryan

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Monetary policy

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William Jennings Bryan

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Speech

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Political speech

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Language

English

Time

1896 1890s 19th century

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Bryan, William Jennings. "Cross of Gold." National Democratic Convention. 9 July 1896, Chicago Coliseum, Chicago, IL, USA. Address.

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Bryan, William Jennings. The Cross of Gold. University of Nebraska Press, 1996.

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