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Goddamn, you play a mean banjo!

Deliverance

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Banjo Musical instruments Hillbillies

Speaker

Drew Ballinger

Actor

Ronny Cox

Source

Deliverance

Medium

Film

Genre

Survival (film) Thriller (film) Thriller Survival

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English

Time

1972 1970s 20th century

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Deliverance. Directed by John Boorman, Elmer Enterprises, 1972.

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Remember that you ought to behave in life as you should at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

Epictetus

Quoted in The Enchiridion, by Arrian

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Patience

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Epictetus

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Arrian

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The Enchiridion

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Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

125 120s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Epictetus. Ἐγχειρίδιον Ἐπικτήτου, Enkheirídion Epiktḗtou [Enchiridion of Epictetus]. c. 125 CE, ch. 15.

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Epictetus. Enchiridion, translated by George Long. Dover Publications, 2004, ch. 15.

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We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

Lydia Maria Child

An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans

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Abolitionism Slavery Oppression

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Lydia Maria Child

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An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1833 1830s 19th century

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Child, Lydia Maria. An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans. Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1833, ch. 6.

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I had to be at that there crossroads last midnight, to sell my soul to the devil.

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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The soul Devil's bargain

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Tommy Johnson

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Chris Thomas King

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O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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Film

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Comedy drama (film) Comedy drama

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English

Time

2000 2000s 21st century

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O Brother, Where Art Thou? Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Touchstone Pictures/Universal Pictures/StudioCanal/Working Title Films/Blind Bard Pictures, 2000.

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Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

Bion of Borysthenes

Quoted in Moralia, by Plutarch

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Animal cruelty Man and animals

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Bion of Borysthenes

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Plutarch

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Moralia

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Essay

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Greek

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100 100s 2nd century

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Classical antiquity

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Bion. Quoted in "De sollertia animalium [Whether Land or Sea Animals are Cleverer]." Moralia [Morals], written by Plutarch. c. 100.

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Bion. Quoted in "Whether Land or Sea Animals are Cleverer." Moralia, written by Plutarch. Vol. 12, Harvard University Press, 1957.

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost

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Happiness

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Robert Frost

Source

A Witness Tree

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

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Frost, Robert. "Happiness Makes Up in Height for What it Lacks in Length." A Witness Tree. Henry Holt and Company, 1942.

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Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Aphra Behn

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Variety

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Willmore

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Aphra Behn

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The Rover

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Play

Language

English

Time

1681 1680s 17th century

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Behn, Aphra. The Rover or The Banish'd Cavaliers. 24 Mar. 1677, Duke's Theatre, Dorset Gardens, London, England, UK, pt. 2, act 1, sc. 1.

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Behn, Aphra. "The Rover." The Rover and Other Plays. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 2, act 1, sc. 1.

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Castles in the air-they are so easy to take refuge in. And easy to build, too.

Henrik Ibsen

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Delusion Dreams

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Hilda Wangel

Author

Henrik Ibsen

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The Master Builder

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Play

Genre

Drama (play)

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

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Norwegian

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

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Ibsen, Henrik. Bygmester Solness [The Master Builder]. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, 1892, act 3.

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Ibsen, Henrik. "The Master Builder." The Master Builder and Other Plays, translated by Barbara Haveland and Anne-Marie Stanton-Ife. Penguin Classics, 2015, act 3.

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We must bear one another's burdens, we must not look only on our own things but also on the things of our brethren.

John Winthrop

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Social solidarity Helping others

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John Winthrop

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A Model of Christian Charity

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Sermon

Language

English

Time

1630 1630s 17th century

Era

Colonial America

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Winthrop, John. "A Model of Christian Charity." 8 Apr. 1630, on board Arbella. Sermon.

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God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

Amiri Baraka

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Decline of religion Death of God God Disenchanted world

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Amiri Baraka

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What Does Nonviolence Mean?

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Baraka, Amiri (aka Imamu Amiri Baraka). "What Does Non-Violence Mean?" Midstream. Dec. 1963, vol. IX, no. 4.

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If talk was money, Doc, you'd be the best customer I got.

Stagecoach

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Talking too much Talking

Speaker

Bartender

Actor

Jack Curtis

Source

Stagecoach

Medium

Film

Genre

Western (film) Western

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

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

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.

Hannah Arendt

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Tyranny Words vs. actions Oppression

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Hannah Arendt

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A Certain World: A Commonplace Book

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English

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1970 1970s 20th century

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Arendt, Hanna. Quoted in A Certain World: A Commonplace Book, written by W. H. Auden. Viking Press, 1970.

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Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Individual vs. the collective Isolation The crowd Man as social animal

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Rabindranath Tagore

Language

Bengali

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

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Tagore, Rabindrath. Stray Birds. The Macmillan Company, 1916, no. 110.

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I was there to push people beyond what's expected of them. I believe that is an absolute necessity.

Whiplash

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Motivation

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Fletcher

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J. K. Simmons

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Whiplash

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Film

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Psychological drama (film) Drama (film) Psychological drama Drama

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English

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

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Whiplash. Directed by Damien Chazelle, Blumhouse Productions/Right of Way Films/Bold Films, 2014.

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After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

Brooks Atkinson

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Decline of democracy War Democracy

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Brooks Atkinson

Source

Once Around the Sun

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

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Atkinson, Brooks. Once Around the Sun. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1951.

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The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Journalism Media

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Hallam Edinburgh Review

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Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1828 1820s 19th century

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Hallam." Edinburgh Review, Sept. 1828.

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For all the happiness Mankind can gain
Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

John Dryden

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Happiness Pleasure and pain Pleasure Pain

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Cortez

Author

John Dryden

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The Indian Emperor

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play)

Language

English

Time

1665 1660s 17th century

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Dryden, John. The Indian Emperor. King's Company, 1665, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

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Dryden, John. "The Indian Emperor." The Works of John Dryden. Vol. 9. University of California Press, 1967, act 4, sc. 1.

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I'll give you anything you ask for—as long as it's not something I don't want to give.

Love Actually

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Generosity

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The US President

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Billy Bob Thornton

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Love Actually

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Film

Genre

Christmas (film) Romantic comedy (film) Christmas Romantic comedy

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Love Actually. Directed by Richard Curtis, Working Title Films/StudioCanal/DNA Films, 2003.

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We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections

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Emotions

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François de La Rochefoucauld

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Reflections

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Epigram

Language

French

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1678 1670s 17th century

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

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

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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

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Honesty Meaning of words Limits of language

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Henry Adams

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The Education of Henry Adams

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Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

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Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 31.

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Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 31.

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