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The chase, the sport of kings;
image of war, without its guilt.

William Somerville

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Topic

Hunting

Author

William Somerville

Source

The Chace

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1735 1730s 18th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Somervile, William. The Chace. London: G. Hawkins/Dublin: R. Gunne and R. Owen, 1735.

We need greater virtues to sustain good fortune than bad.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections

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Topic

Tests of character Character

Author

François de La Rochefoucauld

Source

Reflections

Medium

Epigram

Language

French

Time

1678 1670s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

Current Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

I that have not your faith, how shall I know
That in the blinding light beyond the grave
We’ll find so good a thing as that we have lost?

W.B. Yeats

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Topic

The afterlife Death Life

Author

W.B. Yeats

Source

King and No King

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "King and No King." The Green Helmet and Other Poems. The Cuala Press, 1910.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "King and No King." Yeats's Poetry, Drama and Prose. W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

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Topic

Effects of fear Fear

Author

Edmund Burke

Source

Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1757 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Burke, Edmund. Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. London: R and J. Dodsley, 1757, pt. 2, sect. 2.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. "Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, pt. 2, sect. 2.

You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.

Carl Jung

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Topic

God and man Decline of religion God Human nature

Author

Carl Jung

Source

The Undiscovered Self

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jung, Carl. Gegenwart und Zukunft [The Undiscovered Self], translated by R. F. C. Hull. Routledge & Kegen Paul, 1958.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Topic

Nature of love Love

Author

Ursula K. Le Guin

Source

The Lathe of Heaven

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Le Guin, Ursula K. The Lathe of Heaven. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. Originally published in Amazing Stories, Mar. 1971 and May 1971.

The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly, Roy.

Blade Runner

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Topic

Living life to the fullest Dying young

Speaker

Dr. Eldon Tyrell

Actor

Joe Turkel

Source

Blade Runner

Medium

Film

Genre

Dystopian (film) Science fiction (film) Dystopian Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Blade Runner. Directed by Ridley Scott, The Ladd Company/Blade Runner Partnership/Shaw Brothers Studio, 1982.

I weep for the future.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

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Topic

Kids these days The future

Speaker

Chez Quis Maitre D'

Actor

Jonathan Schmock

Source

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Medium

Film

Genre

Teen comedy (film) Teen (film) Teen comedy Teen

Language

English

Time

1986 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Directed by John Hughes. Paramount Pictures, 1986.

No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.

Seneca the Younger

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Topic

Simple living Materialism

Author

Seneca the Younger

Source

Moral Letters to Lucilius

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

65 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 0

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.

You know Marcel Proust? Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, he uh...he gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, those were the best years of his life, 'cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didn't learn a thing. So, if you sleep until you're 18, ah, think of the suffering you're gonna miss. I mean high school? High school, those are your prime suffering years. You don't get better suffering than that.

Little Miss Sunshine

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Topic

High school Learning from suffering

Speaker

Frank

Actor

Steve Carell

Source

Little Miss Sunshine

Medium

Film

Genre

Road movie Comedy drama (film) Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

2006 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Little Miss Sunshine. Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Big Beach Films/Bona Fide Productions/Third Gear Productions, 2006.

Faith without works is dead.

James 2:26

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Topic

Faith vs. works Good works Faith

Source

James The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

49 40s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (James 2:26).

There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from ya. That's never possible.

Atticus Finch

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Topic

Protecting children Parents and children

Speaker

Atticus Finch

Actor

Gregory Peck

Source

To Kill a Mockingbird

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

To Kill a Mockingbird. Directed by Robert Mulligan, Brentwood Productions, 1962.

He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him look at the works.

Dashiell Hammett

Black Mask

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Topic

Moment of realization Inflection points

Speaker

Brigid O'Shaughnessy

Author

Dashiell Hammett

Source

The Maltese Falcon Black Mask

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hammett, Dashiell. "The Maltese Falcon." Black Mask, Sept. 1929 - Jan. 1930. Serial.

Current Citation

Hammett, Dashiell. "The Maltese Falcon." The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest. Everyman's Library, 2000, ch. 7.

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

If

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Topic

Opportunities

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Source

If

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "If—". Rewards and Fairies. Macmillan and Co., 1910, st. 4.

Current Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "If—". Rudyard Kipling: Stories and Poems, edited by Daniel Karlin. Oxford University Press, 2015, st. 4.

God is love.

1st John 4:8

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Topic

Nature of God God's love God

Source

1st John The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

95 90s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st John 4:8).

We accept the love we think we deserve.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Topic

Settling

Speaker

Charlie

Actor

Logan Lerman

Source

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Medium

Film

Genre

Coming of age (film) Drama (film) Coming of age Drama

Language

English

Time

2012 2010s 21st century

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Citation

The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Directed by Stephen Chbosky, Mr. Mudd Productions, 2012.

Oh Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!

Jane Welsh Carlyle

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Topic

Inner life Appearance vs. reality

Author

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Language

English

Time

1836 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Letter to Eliza Stodart. 29 Feb. 1836.

Current Citation

Carlyle, Jane Welsh. Jane Carlyle: Newly Selected Letters, edited by David R. Sorensen and Kenneth J. Fielding. Routledge, 2004, ch. 3.

There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more.

Colin Powell

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Topic

Iraq War

Speaker

Colin Powell

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Powell, Colin. Speech to United Nations Security Council. 5 Feb. 2003, New York, NY, USA.

You can break a man's skull, you can arrest him, you can throw him into a dungeon. But how do you control what's up here? How do you fight an idea?

Ben-Hur

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Topic

Freedom of thought Power of ideas The mind

Speaker

Sextus

Actor

André Morell

Source

Ben-Hur

Medium

Film

Genre

Epic (film) Historical drama (film) Epic Historical drama

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Ben-Hur. Directed by William Wyler, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1959.

Just old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, you don't look forward to being cured of.

Citizen Kane

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Topic

Old age Fear of death Death

Speaker

Mr. Bernstein

Actor

Everett Sloane

Source

Citizen Kane

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Citizen Kane. Directed by Orson Welles. RKO Radio Pictures/Mercury Productions, 1941.