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It was great fun,
But it was just one of those things.

Cole Porter

Just One of Those Things

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One night stand Flings

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Cole Porter

Source

Just One of Those Things

Medium

Song

Genre

Great American songbook

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

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Porter, Cole. "Just One of Those Things." Jubilee. Performed by June Knight and Charles Walters. 1935, Shubert Theatre, Boston, MA, USA.

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I wonder how far Moses would have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if He had taken a poll in the land of Israel?

Harry Truman

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Public opinion Political leadership Leadership

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Harry Truman

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English

Time

1954 1950s 20th century

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Truman, Harry S. Memo to himself. c. 1954.

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Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike

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Dreams

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John Updike

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Autobiography and memoir

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English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Updike, John. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs. Knopf, 1989, ch. 3.

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I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the telephone directory than by the Harvard University faculty.

William F. Buckley

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Experts Democracy

Speaker

William F. Buckley

Source

Esquire

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

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Buckley, William F., Jr. Quoted in "William F. Buckley, Jr.: Portrait of a Complainer." Interviewed by Dan Wakefield. Esquire Magazine, Jan. 1961.

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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.

William Osler

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Sex Greed Nature of men

Author

William Osler

Source

Science and Immortality

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1904 1900s 20th century

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Osler, William. Science and Immortality. Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1904, ch. 2.

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Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
And all of heaven we have below.

Joseph Addison

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Music

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Joseph Addison

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A Song for St. Cecilia's Day

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1694 1690s 17th century

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Addison, Joseph. "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, at Oxford." 1694.

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The single most impressive fact about the attempt by American women to obtain the right to vote is how long it took.

Alice Rossi

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Voting rights Women's rights

Author

Alice Rossi

Source

Along the Suffrage Trail

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Rossi, Alice S. The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir. Columbia University Press, 1973, pt. 2.

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The cosmos is all there is or ever was or ever will be. Our contemplations of the cosmos stir us. There is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a great height. We know we are approaching the grandest of mysteries.

Carl Sagan

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The universe Origin of the universe Space The mysterious

Speaker

Carl Sagan

Source

Cosmos

Medium

TV program

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Sagan, Carl. Cosmos. Random House, 1980.

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There are only two things more beautiful than a good gun—a Swiss watch or a woman from anywhere.

Red River

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Guns Watches Women

Speaker

Cherry Valance

Actor

John Ireland

Source

Red River

Medium

Film

Genre

Western (film) Western

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

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Red River. Directed by Howard Hawks, Monterey Productions, 1948.

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Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.

Joseph Schumpeter

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

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Marxism

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Joseph Schumpeter

Source

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

Genre

Economic literature Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

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Schumpeter, Joseph Alois. Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy. Harper & Brothers, 1942, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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Style is not something applied. It is something inherent, something that permeates.

Wallace Stevens

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Wallace Stevens

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Two or Three Ideas

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Speech

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

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Stevens, Wallace. "Two or Three Ideas." 28 Apr. 1951, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, USA. Speech.

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Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

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One's native land Travel

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Thomas Fuller (churchman)

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Of Travelling The Holy State and the Profane State

Medium

Essay

Genre

Travel writing

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1642 1640s 17th century

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Fuller, Thomas. The Holy State and the Profane State. Cambridge: John Williams, 1642, bk. 3, ch. 4.

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When a just cause reaches its flood-tide... Whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.

Carrie Chapman Catt

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Political progress Progress

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Carrie Chapman Catt

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Is Woman Sufferage Progressing?

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1911 1910s 20th century

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Catt, Carrie Chapman. "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" Sixth Convention of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. 13 June 1911, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a point when choice was any more than sum of all the choices gone before?

Joan Didion

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Free will Effects of the past

Author

Joan Didion

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English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Didion, Joan. Run, River. Ivan Obolensky, Inc., 1963.

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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss!

Christopher Marlowe

Doctor Faustus

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Trojan War Beautiful women

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Faustus

Author

Christopher Marlowe

Source

Doctor Faustus

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1593 1590s 16th century

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Marlowe, Christopher. The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. Admiral's Men, 1594, The Rose Theater, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 1.

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Marlowe, Christopher. "Doctor Faustus (1604 Text)." Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays. Penguin Classics, 2004, act 5, sc. 1.

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The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

Aldous Huxley

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End justifies the means Moral theory Morality

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Aldous Huxley

Source

Ends and Means

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

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Huxley, Aldous. Ends and Means (an Enquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization). Chatto & Windus, 1937, ch. 1.

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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

H.L. Mencken

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Elusiveness of truth Truth

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H.L. Mencken

Source

Prejudices, Third Series

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Mencken, Henry Louis. H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010, ch. 3. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1922.

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I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Ocean and sea

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

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English

Time

1866 1860s 19th century

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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. "The Triumph of Time." Poems and Ballads, First Series. London: Edward Moxon & Co., 1866, st. 33.

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Swinburne, Algernon Charles. "The Triumph of Time." Poems and Ballads and Atalanta in Calydon. Penguin Classics, 2001, st. 33.

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What have they done to the earth, yeah?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn,
And tied her with fences and dragged her down.
I hear a very gentle sound,
With your ear down to the ground
We want the world and we want it
We want the world and we want it
Now.

The Doors

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When the Music's Over

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Environmental destruction Fighting for justice

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The Doors

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When the Music's Over

Medium

Song

Genre

Rock music

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

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The Doors. "When the Music's Over." Strange Days. Elektra Records, 1967.

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Now, maybe there's a God above
As for me all I've ever learned from love
Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
But it's not a cry that you're hear tonight
It's not some pilgrim who claims to have seen the light
No, it's a cold and it's a very broken Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen

Hallelujah

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The human condition

Speaker

Leonard Cohen

Source

Hallelujah

Medium

Song

Genre

Folk music

Language

English

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

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Cohen, Leonard. "Hallelujah." Various Positions. Columbia Records, 1984.

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