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Sometimes it still hurts. You know how it is, man. It's like, you wake up every day and it hurts a little bit less, and then you wake up one day and it doesn't hurt at all. And the funny thing is, is that, this is kinda weird, but it's like, it's like you almost miss that pain.

Swingers

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Getting over someone Broken heart Healing

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Rob

Actor

Ron Livingston

Source

Swingers

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy drama (film) Comedy drama

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English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Swingers. Directed by Doug Liman, Independent Pictures/Alfred Shay Productions, 1996.

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The two luckiest things that can happen to a contemporary painter are, first, to be Spanish and, second, to be named Salvador Dali. Both have happened to me.

Salvador Dalí

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Delusions of grandeur Self-satisfaction

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Salvador Dalí

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Life Magazine

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Interview Magazine

Statement Type

Boast

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English

Time

1945 1940s 20th century

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Dali, Salvador. "Dali." Interviewed by Winthrop Sargeant. Life, September 24, 1945, p. 64.

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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The Critic

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Thinking for oneself

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Mr. Puff

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Source

The Critic

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Play

Genre

Satire (play) Satire

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English

Time

1779 1770s 18th century

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

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A full-grown horse or dog is beyond comparison a more rational, as well as a more conversable animal, than an infant of a day, or a week, or even a month old. But suppose the case were otherwise, what would it avail? The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

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Suffering of animals Man and animals

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Jeremy Bentham

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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

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Essay

Genre

Political literature

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English

Time

1789 1780s 18th century

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Bentham, Jeremy. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. London: T. Payne and Son, 1789, ch. 17.

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Bentham, Jeremy. Utilitarianism and Other Essays. Penguin UK, 2004.

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All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Monty Python's Life of Brian

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Anti-imperialism Roman empire Imperialism

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Reg

Actor

John Cleese

Source

Monty Python's Life of Brian

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

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Monty Python's Life of Brian. Directed by Terry Jones, Handmade Films/Python (Monty) Pictures, 1979.

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Success is more dangerous than failure, (the ripples break over a wider coastline).

Graham Greene

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Success and failure Success Failure

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Graham Greene

Source

Ways of Escape

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

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English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Greene, Graham. Ways of Escape. The Bodley Head, 1980, ch. 8, sec. 3.

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Yes, quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down
You'd treat if met where any bar is,
Or help to half-a-crown.

Thomas Hardy

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Absurdity of war War

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Thomas Hardy

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The Man He Killed

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Poem

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English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

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Hardy, Thomas. "The Man He Killed." Harper's Weekly, 8 Nov. 1902.

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Hardy, Thomas. "The Man He Killed." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 1998.

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Complete moral tolerance is possible only when men have become completely indifferent to each other-that is to say, when society is at an end.

James Fitzjames Stephen

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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

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Tolerance Moral relativism

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James Fitzjames Stephen

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Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

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Political literature

Language

English

Time

1873 1870s 19th century

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Stephen, James Fitzjames. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. London: Smith, Elder, & Company, 1873, ch. 4.

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Stephen, James Fitzjames. Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, edited by Julia Stapleton. Oxford University Press, 2018, ch. 4.

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Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Isaiah Berlin

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Anchoring effect Nature of progress Progress

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Isaiah Berlin

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The Philosophical Ideas of Giambattista Vico Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas

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Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

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English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Berlin, Isaiah. "The Philosophical Ideas of Giambattista Vico." Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas. Viking Press/Hogarth, 1976, pt. 1.

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Ill news hath wings, and with the wind doth go,
Comfort's a cripple and comes ever slow.

Michael Drayton

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Bad news

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Michael Drayton

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The Barons' Wars

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1603 1600s 17th century

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Drayton, Michael. "The Barons' Wars." The Barons' Wars, Nymphidia, and Other Poems. London and New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1887.

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We cannot judge either of the feelings of the character of men with perfect accuracy, from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversation, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.

Maria Edgeworth

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Public vs. private person Character

Author

Maria Edgeworth

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Castle Rackrent

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1800 1800s 18th century

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Edgeworth, Maria. Castle Rackrent. London: J. Johnson, 1800, preface.

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Edgeworth, Maria. Castle Rackrent, edited by Ryan Twomey. W. W. Norton & Company, 2014, preface.

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The gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Economic growth American politics

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Robert F. Kennedy

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

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Kennedy, Robert F. Remarks at the University of Kansas. 18 Mar. 1968, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA.

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Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

Ray Cummings

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Nature of time Time

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The Big Business Man

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Ray Cummings

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English

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

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Cummings, Ray. "The Girl in the Golden Atom." All-Story Weekly, Mar. 1919.

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Cummings, Ray. The Girl in the Golden Atom. University of Nebraska Press, 2005, ch. 5.

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Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Moral courage Courage

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Robert F. Kennedy

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Day of Affirmation Address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

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Kennedy, Robert F. "Day of Affirmation." National Union of South African Students meeting. 6 June 1966, Jameson Hall, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa.

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The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.

Bertrand Russell

Marriage and Morals

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Infidelity

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Bertrand Russell

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Marriage and Morals

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English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

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Russell, Bertrand. Marriage and Morals. Allen & Unwin, 1929, ch. 16.

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Man is a successful animal, that's all.

Remy de Gourmont

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Nature of man

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Remy de Gourmont

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French

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1905 1900s 20th century

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De Gourmont, Remy. Promenades Philosophiques. c. 1905.

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Neither reason nor faith will ever die; for men would die if deprived of either.

G.K. Chesterton

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Faith and reason Reason Faith Human nature

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G.K. Chesterton

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Anti-Religious Thought in the Eighteenth Century An Outline of Christianity; The Story of Our Civilization

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Essay

Genre

Religious literature

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English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

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Chesterton, G.K. "Anti-Religious Thought in the Eighteenth Century." An Outline of Christianity; The Story of Our Civilization. Vol. 4. Christianity and Modern Thought. The Waverley Book Co., 1926, pt. 3.

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O time, arrest your flight! and you, propitious hours, arrest your course! Let us savor the fleeting delights of our most beautiful days.

Alphonse de Lamartine

The Lake

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Ephemeral nature of time Time

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Alphonse de Lamartine

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The Lake

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French

Time

1820 1820s 19th century

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De Lamartine, Alphonse. "Le Lac [The Lake]." Recueillements poétiques [Poetic Meditations]. Paris: Imp P. Didot L'aine, 1820.

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

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Personal chemistry Connecting with others Man as social animal

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Carl Jung

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Modern Man in Search of a Soul

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Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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Jung, Carl. "Problems of Modern Psychology." Modern Man in Search of a Soul, translated by Cary F. Baynes and William Stanley Dell. Kegen Paul, Trenche, Trubner & Co., 1933.

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Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

Wendell Phillips

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Seeds of revolution Revolution

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Wendell Phillips

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English

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1852 1850s 19th century

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Phillips, Wendell. Speech in Boston. Massachusetts Antislavery Society meeting. 28 Jan. 1852, The Melodeon, Boston, MA, USA.

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