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A real loser is somebody who's so afraid of not winning they don't even try.

Little Miss Sunshine

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Topic

Winners and losers Losers

Speaker

Edwin Hoover

Actor

Alan Arkin

Source

Little Miss Sunshine

Medium

Film

Genre

Road movie Comedy drama (film) Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

2006 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Little Miss Sunshine. Directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, Big Beach Films/Bona Fide Productions/Third Gear Productions, 2006.

For anyone trying to discern what to do with their life: pay attention to what you pay attention to.

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

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Topic

What to study Vocation Career Paying attention Interests

Author

Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Medium

Tweet

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

2013 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Rosenthal, Amy Krouse [@missamykr]. "for anyone trying to discern what to do w/ their life: PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT YOU PAY ATTENTION TO. that's pretty much all the info u need." Twitter, 15 Mar. 2013, 7:02 a.m., twitter.com/missamykr/status/312564535242395648

War, he sung, is Toil and Trouble;
Honour, but an empty Bubble.
Never ending, still beginning,
Fighting still, and still destroying;
If the World be worth thy winning,
Think, O think it worth enjoying.

John Dryden

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Topic

Anti-war War

Author

John Dryden

Source

Alexander's Feast, or The Power of Musique an Ode, in Honour of St. Cecilia's Day

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1697 1690s 17th century

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Original Citation

Dryden, John. Alexander's Feast, or The Power of Musique an Ode, in Honour of St. Cecilia's Day. London: Jacob Tonson, 1697, I. 97.

Current Citation

Dryden, John. "Alexander's Feast." John Dryden Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2002, I. 97.

Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

Patton

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Topic

Dying for one's country War

Speaker

General George S. Patton

Actor

George C. Scott

Source

Patton

Medium

Film

Genre

Biography (film) War (film) Biography War

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Patton. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. 20th Century Fox, 1969.

From the first dawn of life unto the grave,
Poor womankind's in every state a slave.

Sarah Egerton

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Topic

Oppression of women Women's lives

Author

Sarah Egerton

Source

The Emulation Poems on Several Occasions Together with a Pastoral

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1703 1700s 18th century

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Citation

Egerton, Sarah. "The Emulation." Poems on Several Occasions, Together with a Pastoral. London: J. Nutt, 1703.

You're fast with that gun, Matt. Awful fast. But your heart's soft. Too soft. Might get you hurt some day.

Red River

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Topic

Vulnerability Weakness

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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Citation

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

The first time you do something only happens once.

Chris Burden

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Topic

Savor the moment Experiences

Speaker

Chris Burden

Source

W Magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Statement Type

Zen koan

Language

English

Time

2008 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Burden, Chris. "Public Offering." Interviewed by Kevin West. W Magazine, 1 May 2008, https://www.wmagazine.com/story/chris-burden.

In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.

Pico Iyer

The Art of Stillness

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Topic

Paying attention

Author

Pico Iyer

Source

The Art of Stillness

Language

English

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Iyer, Pico. The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere. Simon & Schuster/TED Books, 2014, ch. 6. Originally a TED Talk, 2013.

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

Katherine Anne Porter

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Topic

Miracles

Author

Katherine Anne Porter

Source

Ship of Fools

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Porter, Katherine Anne. Ship of Fools. Little, Brown and Company, 1962, pt. 3.

It is an empire…that dare not speak its name. It is an empire in denial.

Niall Ferguson

On the United States.

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Topic

American empire America and the world

Author

Niall Ferguson

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Ferguson, Niall. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World. Allen Lane/Basic Books, 2003, conclusion.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair

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Topic

Self-interest Selfishness Incentives

Author

Upton Sinclair

Source

I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Sinclair, Upton. I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked. Farrar & Rinehart, 1935.

The truth is in 7th grade, who you are is what other 7th graders say you are. The funny thing is it’s hard to remember the names of the kids you spent so much time trying to impress.

The Wonder Years

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Topic

Junior high Adolescence Social status

Speaker

Narrator (Adult Kevin Arnold)

Actor

Daniel Stern

Source

The Wonder Years

Medium

TV program

Genre

Coming of age (TV) Comedy (TV) Coming of age Comedy

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"Square Dance." The Wonder Years, written by Neal Marlens and Carol Black and Todd W. Langen, directed by Tom Moore, season 2, episode 15, The Black/Marlens Company and New World Television, 1989.

She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

J.D. Salinger

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Topic

Infatuation Being in love Love

Author

J.D. Salinger

Source

A Girl I Knew

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Salinger, J. D. "A Girl I Knew." Good Housekeeping, Feb. 1948.

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

Christian Louis Lange

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Topic

Downsides of technology Technology

Author

Christian Louis Lange

Medium

Nobel Prize Lecture Speech

Language

Norwegian

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lange, Christian. Nobel Lecture. Nobel Peace Prize cermony. 13 Dec. 1921, Norwegian Nobel Institute, Oslo, Norway.

Suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place... The inference, we think, is inevitable; that the watch must have had a maker, that there must have existed, at some time and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.

William Paley

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Topic

Argument from design Origin of life

Author

William Paley

Source

Natural Theology

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1802 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Paley, William. Natural Theology: or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature. London: R. Faulder/Philadelphia: John Morgan, 1802, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Paley, WIlliam. Natural Theology, edited by Matthew D. Eddy and David Knight. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 1.

Little do they know that they meet under an empty sky from which the gods have departed.

Hans Morgenthau

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Topic

Disenchanted world Decline of religion Realpolitik Religion and politics International politics

Author

Hans Morgenthau

Source

Politics Among Nations

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Morgenthau, Hans. Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948.

You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power-he's free again.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In the First Circle

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Topic

Nothing to lose Freedom Oppression Desperation Liberation

Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Source

In the First Circle

Medium

Novel

Genre

Political literature

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

Russian

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander. В круге первом [In the First Circle]. Collins & Harvill Press/‎Harper & Row, 1968, ch. 17.

An advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, that client and none other. To save that client... Is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties; And he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction which he may bring upon any other. Nay... He must go on reckless of the consequences, if his fate, it should unhappily be, to involve his country in confusion for his client's protection.

Henry Peter Brougham

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Topic

Lawyers Legal theory

Speaker

Henry Peter Brougham

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1820 1820s 19th century

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Citation

Brougham, Henry Peter. Argument at trial of Queen Caroline for adultery. House of Lords meeting. c. 1820, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

Oh how am I to face the odds
Of man's bedevilment and God's?
I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.

A.E. Housman

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Topic

Alienation Courage The human condition

Author

A.E. Housman

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Housman, Alfred Edward. Last Poems. Henry Holt & Company, 1922, no. 12.

Current Citation

Housman, Alfred Edward. "Last Poems." A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems, edited by Archie Burnett. Penguin Classics, 2010, no. 12.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Peter De Vries

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Topic

Parents and children Marriage

Author

Peter De Vries

Source

The Tunnel of Love

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1954 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

De Vries, Peter. The Tunnel of Love. Little, Brown and Company, 1954, ch. 8.