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Marriage is a wonderful invention; but, then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

Billy Connolly

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Topic

Marriage

Speaker

Billy Connolly

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Connolly, Billy. Quoted in Billy Connolly, written by Duncan Campbell. Macmillan, 1976.

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus
When he said the world was round
They all laughed when Edison recorded sound
They all laughed at Wilbur and his brother
When they said that man could fly;
They told Marconi
Wireless was a phony-
It's the same old cry!

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Topic

Originality Innovation Resistance to change

Author

Ira Gershwin

Source

They All Laughed Shall We Dance

Medium

Song Musical

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Gershwin, Ira. "They All Laughed." Shall We Dance. Composed by George Gershwin. Performed by Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. RKO Radio Pictures, 1937.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?
Men are so honest, so thoroughly square;
Eternally noble, historically fair;
Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat.
Why can't a woman be like that?

Professor Henry Higgins

My Fair Lady

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Topic

Men and women Men Women

Speaker

Professor Henry Higgins

Actor

Rex Harrison

Source

A Hymn to Him My Fair Lady

Medium

Song Film

Genre

Musical comedy (film) Musical (film) Musical comedy Musical

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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Citation

"A Hymn to Him." My Fair Lady. Directed by George Cuko, performed by Rex Smith, Warner Bros., 1964.

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.

Noam Chomsky

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Topic

Power relations Social hierarchy Domination and subordination

Speaker

Noam Chomsky

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Chomsky, Noam. "Noam Chomsky on Anarchism, Marxism and Hope for the Future." Interviewed by Kevin Doyle. Red and Black Revolution, May 1995.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfilment.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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Topic

Sex Modern life

Author

Malcolm Muggeridge

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Muggeridge, Malcolm. Tread Softly, for You Tread on My Jokes. Collins, 1966.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 1

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Topic

Danger Safety

Speaker

Hotspur

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Henry IV, Part 1

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play)

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1597 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Henry IV, Part 1. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1597, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 3.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The First Part of Henry the Fourth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The Economist

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Topic

Abuse of power Self-importance

Author

C. Northcote Parkinson

Source

Pension Point The Economist

Medium

Essay Newspaper

Genre

Economic literature

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Parkinson, C. Northcote. Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress. John Murray, 1958, ch. 10. Originally published as "Pension Point" in The Economist, c. 1958.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Lewis Mumford

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Topic

Changing of generations Grandparents Fathers and sons

Author

Lewis Mumford

Source

The Brown Decades

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1931 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Mumford, Lewis. The Brown Decades: A Study of the Arts in America. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931.

A drug is neither moral or immoral-it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary licence to act like an asshole.

Frank Zappa

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Topic

Drugs

Author

Frank Zappa

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Zappa, Frank and Peter Occhiogrosso. The Real Frank Zappa Book. Poseidon Press/Picador, 1989, ch. 17.

"Thou shalt not" might reach the head, but it takes "Once upon a time" to reach the heart.

Philip Pullman

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Topic

Stories

Author

Philip Pullman

Source

Independent

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Pullman, Philip. "Opinion: The moral's in the story, not the stern lecture." The Independent, 17 July 1996.

There are reverent minds who ceaselessly scan the fields of Nature and the books of Science in search for gaps-gaps which they will fill up with God. As if God lived in gaps?

Henry Drummond

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Topic

God of the gaps Science and religion Science Religion God

Author

Henry Drummond

Source

The Ascent of Man

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Drummond, Henry. The Ascent of Man. New York City: James Pott & Co., 1894, ch. 10.

That humanity at large will ever be able to dispense with Artificial Paradises seems very unlikely. Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul.

Aldous Huxley

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Topic

Drugs Escape

Author

Aldous Huxley

Source

The Doors of Perception

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1954 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. Chatto & Windus/Harper & Row, 1954.

Summer time and the livin' is easy,
Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high.
Oh, yo' daddy's rich and yo' ma' is good-lookin',
So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.

Ira Gershwin

Summertime

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Topic

Summer Seasons

Author

Ira Gershwin

Source

Summertime

Medium

Song

Genre

Great American songbook

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Gershwin, Ira and DuBose Heyward. "Summertime." Porgy and Bess. Composed by George Gershwin. 1935, Colonial Theatre, Boston, MA, USA.

Let me tell you something kid. Everybody gets one chance to do something great. Most people never take the chance, either cause they're too scared, or they don't recognize it when it spits on their shoes. This is your big chance and you shouldn't let it go by.

The Sandlot

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Topic

Facing one's fears Going for it Greatness

Speaker

The Babe

Actor

Art LaFleur

Source

The Sandlot

Medium

Film

Genre

Coming of age (film) Sports (film) Coming of age Sports

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Sandlot. Directed by David Mickey Evans, Island World, 1993.

The government ought not to use evidence obtained and only obtainable, by a criminal act...for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals could escape than that, the Government should play an ignoble part.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Olmstead v. United States

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Topic

Fourth Amendment Constitutional law

Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Source

Olmstead v. United States

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Olmstead v. United States. United States Reports, vol. 277, 4 June 1928, pp. 438-485. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/277/438/.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real civilization.

G.M. Trevelyan

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Topic

Curiosity Progress

Author

G.M. Trevelyan

Source

English Social History

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Trevelyan, George Macaulay. English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria. Longmans, Green and Company, 1942, introduction.

Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,
If I lacked any thing.

George Herbert

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Topic

Power of love Love

Author

George Herbert

Source

Love (III) The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1633 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Herbert, George. "Love (III)." The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations. Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 1633, I. 1.

Current Citation

Herbert, George. "Love (3)." The Temple. Penguin Classics, 2018, I. 1.

Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhautible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation. Religions, philosophies, arts, the social forms of primitive and historic man, prime discoveries in science and technology, the very dreams that blister sleep, boil up from the basic, magic ring of myth.

Joseph Campbell (writer)

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Topic

Myth

Author

Joseph Campbell (writer)

Source

The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Genre

Sociology

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Pantheon Books, 1949, prologue.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights... It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no political deal to give people freedom. It takes no survey to remove repression.

Harvey Milk

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Topic

Human rights Oppression

Speaker

Harvey Milk

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Milk, Harvey. Speech to the Joint International Longshoremen & Warehousemen's Union of San Francisco and to the Lafayette Club. 30 Sept. 1973, San Francisco, CA, USA.

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

2nd Timothy 4:7

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Topic

Serving God Living for God

Source

2nd Timothy The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

67 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (2nd Timothy 4:7).