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I tell you the most dangerous creation in the world in any society is the man with nothing to lose. You do not need 10 such men to change the world. One will do.

Elijah Muhammad

Malcolm X

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Nothing to lose Changing the world

Speaker

Elijah Muhammad

Actor

Al Freeman Jr.

Source

Malcolm X

Medium

Film

Genre

Biography (film) Drama (film) Biography Drama

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English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

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Malcolm X. Directed by Spike Lee, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, 1992.

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No man ever repented that he arose from the table sober, healthful, and with his wits about him.

Jeremy Taylor

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The House of Feasting

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Getting drunk Drinking alcohol

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Jeremy Taylor

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The House of Feasting

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English

Time

1653 1650s 17th century

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Taylor, Jeremy. "The House of Feasting." c. 1653, Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK. Sermon.

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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

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Meaning of life Life The human condition

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Viktor Frankl

Source

Man's Search for Meaning

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

German

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

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Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

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Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up.

Studs Terkel

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Hope Political progress Politics

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Studs Terkel

Source

Hope Dies Last

Genre

Historical literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Terkel, Studs. Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times. New Press, 2003.

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A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

Marjorie Rawlings

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The Yearling

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Men and women

Speaker

Grandma Hutto

Author

Marjorie Rawlings

Source

The Yearling

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

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Rawlings, Marjorie. The Yearling. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938, ch. 12.

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For there is no friend like a sister
In calm or stormy weather;
To cheer one on the tedious way,
To fetch one if one goes astray,
To lift one if one totters down,
To strengthen while one stands.

Christina Rossetti

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Sisters Siblings

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Christina Rossetti

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Goblin Market

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

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Rossetti, Christina. "Goblin Market." Goblin Market and Other Poems. London: Macmillan, 1862.

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Rossetti, Christina. "Goblin Market." The Complete Poems. Penguin Classics, 2001.

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If by the people you understand the multitude,
the hoi polloi, 'tis no matter what they think; they are sometimes in the right, sometimes in
the wrong: their judgement is a mere lottery.

John Dryden

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The masses

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John Dryden

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An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

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Essay

Language

English

Time

1668 1660s 17th century

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Dryden, John. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy. London: Henry Herringman, 1668.

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John Dryden. "An Essay of Dramatic Poesie." John Dryden: Selected Writings, edited by Steven N. Zwicker. Oxford University Press, 2020.

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We have ways to make men talk.

The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

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Torture

Speaker

Mohammed Khan

Actor

Douglass Dumbrille

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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer

Medium

Film

Genre

Adventure (film) Adventure

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

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The Lives of a Bengal Lancer. Directed by Henry Hathaway, Paramount Pictures, 1935.

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Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

Barbara Bush

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American Presidency

Speaker

Barbara Bush

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Statement Type

Political joke Joke

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

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Bush, Barbara. Remarks at Wellesley College commencement. Commencement ceremony. 1 June 1990. Wellesley, MA, USA.

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Hey, guys, one more thing, hey, this summer, when you're being inundated with all this American bicentennial Fourth Of July brouhaha, don’t forget what you’re celebrating, and that’s the fact that a bunch of slave-owning, aristocratic, white males didn’t want to pay their taxes.

Dazed and Confused

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American founding America

Speaker

Ms. Stroud

Actor

Kim Krizan

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Dazed and Confused

Medium

Film

Genre

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

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Dazed and Confused. Directed by Richard Linklater, Detour Filmproduction/Alphaville Films, 1993.

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We have met the enemy and he is us.

Walt Kelly

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The cartoon-strip character, Pogo the opossum, looking at litter under a tree. Used as an Earth Day poster in 1971.

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Environmental destruction Man and nature

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Walt Kelly

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

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Kelly, Walt. "We Have Met the Enemy…" Pogo. 22 Apr. 1970. Poster.

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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Jerome K. Jerome

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Procrastination Idleness Killing time

Author

Jerome K. Jerome

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On Being Idle Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1886 1880s 19th century

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Jerome, Jerome K. "On Being Idle." Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. Field & Tuer, 1886.

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New York is the greatest city in the world-especially for my people. Where else, in this grand and glorious land of ours, can I get on the subway, sit in any part of the train I please, get off at any station above 110th street, and know I'll be welcome?

Dick Gregory

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From the Back of the Bus

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New York City

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Dick Gregory

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From the Back of the Bus

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Gregory, Dick. "New York City." From the Back of the Bus. Dutton, 1962.

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If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.

Terry Tempest Williams

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Wilderness

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Terry Tempest Williams

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Williams, Terry Tempest. Statement regarding the Utah public lands management act of 1995. 13 July 1995, Washington, DC, USA.

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Freedom, though it has brought him independence and rationality, has made him isolated and, thereby, anxious and powerless.

Erich Fromm

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Downsides of freedom Modern life

Author

Erich Fromm

Source

Escape from Freedom

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

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Fromm, Erich. Escape from Freedom. Farrar & Rinehart, 1941, foreword.

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Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

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Melting pot America

Author

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

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Letters from an American Farmer

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English

Time

1782 1780s 18th century

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Crevecoeur, Michel Guillaume Jean [published as J. Hector St. John]. "What Is an American?" Letters from an American Farmer. London: Davies & Davies, 1782.

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Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John. "Letters From an American Farmer." Letters From an American Farmer and Sketches of Eighteenth-Century America, edited by Albert E. Stone. Penguin Classics, 1981.

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Man for the field and woman for the hearth:
Man for the sword and for the needle she:
Man with the head and woman with the heart:
Man to command and woman to obey;
All else confusion.

Alfred Tennyson

The Princess

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Patriarchy Gender roles Gender relations Men and women

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Alfred Tennyson

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The Princess

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

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Tennyson, Alfred. The Princess. London: Edward Moxon, 1847, pt. 5, I. 437.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "The Princess." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 5, I. 437.

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She knew how to allure by denying, and to make the gift rich by delaying it.

Anthony Trollope

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Delayed gratification Pursuing women Courtship and dating

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Anthony Trollope

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Phineas Finn

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

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Trollope, Anthony. "Phineas Finn." St Paul's Magazine, Oct. 1867-May 1868. Monthly serial.

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Trollope, Anthony. Phineas Finn. Oxford University Press, 2011, ch. 57.

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Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Sleep and death Sleep The human condition

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Nicolas Chamfort

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Maximes et Pensées

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Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

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Chamfort, Nicolas. Maximes et Pensees. c. 1796, no. 91.

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We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

Elie Wiesel

Nobel Prize Lecture, 1986

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Political neutrality Standing up for what's right Oppression Politics

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Elie Wiesel

Source

Nobel Prize Lecture, 1986

Medium

Nobel Prize Lecture Speech

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English

Time

1986 1980s 20th century

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Wiesel, Elie. Acceptance speech. Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. 10 Dec 1986, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway.

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