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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

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Fear of death Death Living life to the fullest Life

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Pelagea Vlasova, the Mother

Author

Bertolt Brecht

Source

The Mother

Medium

Play

Statement Type

Advice

Language

German

Time

1931 1930s 20th century

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Brecht, Bertolt. Die Mutter. Leben der Revolutionärin Pelagea Wlassowa aus Twer [The mother. Life of the Revolutionary Pelagea Vlassova from Tver]. 17 Jan. 1932, Komödienhaus am Schiffbauerdamm, Berlin, Germany.

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Brecht, Bertolt. The Mother. Grove Press, 1994.

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Marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Downsides of marriage Relationship challenges Marriage

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

Virginibus Puerisque

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1876 1870s 19th century

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Virginibus Puerisque." The Cornhill Magazine, vol. 34, 1876, p. 176.

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If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution- it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.

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Constitutional theory

Author

Alexander Hamilton

Source

Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bank

Language

English

Time

1791 1790s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

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Hamilton, Alexander. Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bank. 23 Feb. 1791.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National, February 23, 1791." Alexander Hamilton: Writings, edited by Joanne B. Freeman. Library of America, 2001.

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This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

William Shakespeare

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New love

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Juliet Capulet

Author

William Shakespeare

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1597 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. London: John Danter, 1597, act 2, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Romeo and Juliet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 2.

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Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Georges Braque

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Truth and lies Truth Lies

Author

Georges Braque

Source

Journals of Georges Braque

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

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Braque, Georges. Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers 1917-52. Gallimard, 1952.

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Braque, Georges. Illustrated Notebooks: 1917-1955, translated by Stanley Appelbaum. Dover Publications, 1971.

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Those whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder.

The Book of Common Prayer

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Marriage

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Solemnization of Matrimony The Book of Common Prayer

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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The Book of Common Prayer (American). Episcopal Church, 1928.

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A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband.

Proverbs 12:4

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Women Men and women Patriarchy

Source

Proverbs The Bible

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Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

686 BC 680s BC 7th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Proverbs 12:4).

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It’s just like our life, we appear and we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just…passing through.

Before Midnight

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Nature of life Life The human condition

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Natalia

Actor

Xenia Kalogeropoulou

Source

Before Midnight

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic drama (film) Drama (film) Romantic drama Drama

Language

English

Time

2013 2010s 21st century

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Before Midnight. Directed by Richard Linklater, Castle Rock Entertainment/Venture Forth/Detour Filmproduction, 2013.

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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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Black experience Racism

Author

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Source

Yes I Can

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 29th century

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Davis, Sammy, Jr. Yes I Can: The Story of Sammy Davis, Jr. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965, pt. 3, ch. 23.

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The principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement.

John Stuart Mill

The Subjection of Women

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Patriarchy Oppression of women Gender relations

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John Stuart Mill

Source

The Subjection of Women

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

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Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 1.

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Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 1.

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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The Critic

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Moral theory

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Mr. Sneer

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Source

The Critic

Medium

Play

Genre

Satire (play) Satire

Language

English

Time

1779 1770s 18th century

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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The Critic. 1779, Drury Lane Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 1.

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If I could change one thing about you, it would be for you to stop trying to change me.

Before Midnight

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Changing others

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Jesse

Actor

Ethan Hawke

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Before Midnight

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Film

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Romantic drama (film) Drama (film) Romantic drama Drama

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English

Time

2013 2010s 21st century

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Before Midnight. Directed by Richard Linklater, Castle Rock Entertainment/Venture Forth/Detour Filmproduction, 2013.

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The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

Mark Twain

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Patriotism

Author

Mark Twain

Source

The Czar's Soliloquy The North American Review

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1905 1900s 20th century

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Twain, Mark. "The Czar's Soliloquy." The North American Review, Mar. 1905.

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Twain, Mark. "The Czar's Soliloquy." Collected Nonfiction of Mark Twain. Vol. 1. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016.

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Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

W.H. Auden

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The past History The human condition

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W.H. Auden

Source

D.H. Lawrence

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Auden, W. H. "D. H. Lawrence." The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays. Random House, 1962.

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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Edmund Burke

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Law

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Edmund Burke

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A Tract on the Popery Laws

Genre

Political literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1760 1760s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Burke, Edmund. A Tract on the Popery Laws. c. 1760, ch. 3, pt. 1.

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Burke, Edmund. "Tract on the Popery Laws." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, ch. 3, pt. 1.

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Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

William James

The Principles of Psychology

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Nature of time The present Mindfulness

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William James

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The Principles of Psychology

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

English

Time

1890 1890s 19th century

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James, William. The Principles of Psychology. Vol. 1, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890, ch. 15.

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Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

William Shakespeare

Henry V

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Patience Horses

Speaker

Nym

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Henry V

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play)

Language

English

Time

1599 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. Henry V. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1599, The Curtain, Shoreditch, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Henry the Fifth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 1.

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True wit is Nature to advantage dressed,
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Criticism

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Wit

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Alexander Pope

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An Essay on Criticism

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1711 1710s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Pope, Alexander, [published anonymously]. "An Essay on Criticism." London: W. Lewis, 1711, pt. 2, l. 297-298.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Criticism." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 2, I. 297-298.

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I'm hysterical! I'm having hysterics. I'm hysterical. I can't stop when I get like this. I can't stop. I'm hysterical.

The Producers

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Freaking out

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Leo Bloom

Actor

Gene Wilder

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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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

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Life and death The human condition

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George Santayana

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War Shrines Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies

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Essay

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Santayana, George. "War Shrines." Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies. Charles Scribner's Sons/Constable and Co., 1922.

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