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Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?

Donald Trump

Reported comment to senators at White House meeting on immigration in January of 2018.

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Immigration American politics

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Donald Trump

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English

Time

2018 2010s 21st century

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Trump, Donald. Quoted in Washington Post. 12 Jan. 2018.

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A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Golda Meir

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Going to war War

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Golda Meir

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English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

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Meir, Golda. Stated after Levi Eshkol delivered a radio address to his nation. c. 1967.

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Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not and shall not die.

Charles de Gaulle

Appeal of 18 June

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French Resistance World War II

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Charles de Gaulle

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Appeal of 18 June

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

French

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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De Gaulle, Charles. L'Appel du 18 juin [The Appeal of 18 June]. BBC, 18 June 1940.

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Whenever your life ends, it is all there. The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays

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Living life to the fullest

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Michel de Montaigne

Source

That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die Essays

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Advice

Language

French

Time

1580 1580s 16th century

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De Montaigne, Michel. "Que Philosopher C'Est Apprendre a Mourir [That to Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections

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It takes two to tangle Conflict

Author

François de La Rochefoucauld

Source

Reflections

Medium

Epigram

Language

French

Time

1678 1670s 17th century

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him and it was still hot.

Maurice Sendak

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Where the Wild Things Are

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Imagination

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Maurice Sendak

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Where the Wild Things Are

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Sendak, Maurice. Where the Wild Things Are. Harper & Row, 1963.

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Next Tuesday all of you will go to the polls, will stand there in the polling place and make a decision. I think when you make that decision it might be well if you would ask yourself: Are you better off than you were four years ago?

Ronald Reagan

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Elections American politics

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Ronald Reagan

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Political debate

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English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Reagan, Ronald. Spoken during presidential campaign debate. Campaign debate. 28 Oct. 1980, Music Hall, Cleveland, OH, USA.

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If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Dan Quayle

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Success and failure

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Dan Quayle

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Speech

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Political speech

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English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

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Quayle, Dan. Speech to Phoenix Republican Forum. 23 Mar. 1990, Phoenix, AZ, USA.

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Silence is the best tactic for him who distrusts himself.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections

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Silence is golden

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François de La Rochefoucauld

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Reflections

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Epigram

Language

French

Time

1678 1670s 17th century

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Study in Scarlet

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Facts What really matters

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Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

A Study in Scarlet

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1887.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 1, ch. 2.

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Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.

Benjamin Disraeli

Sybil

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Christianity and Judaism

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Benjamin Disraeli

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Sybil

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1845 1840s 19th century

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Sybil; or, The Two Nations. Vol. 1, London: Henry Colburn, 1845, bk. 2, ch. 12.

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Sybil, edited by Sheila Smith. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2, ch. 12.

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What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.

Benjamin Disraeli

Henrietta Temple

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Nature of life

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Benjamin Disraeli

Source

Henrietta Temple

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Novel

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Henrietta Temple. London: Henry Colburn, 1837, bk. 2, ch. 4.

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There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw

Man and Superman

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Getting what you want Tragic view of life

Speaker

Mendoza

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Man and Superman

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play)

Language

English

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Man and Superman." Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, act 4. Originally published by Archibald and Constable Co., Ltd., 1903.

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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion

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Women Gender relations Men and women

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Henry Higgins

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George Bernard Shaw

Source

Pygmalion

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

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Shaw, George Bernard. Pygmalion. 16 Oct. 1913, Hofburg Theatre, Vienna, Germany, act. 2.

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Shaw, George Bernard. Pygmalion. Penguin, 2005, act 2.

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Now it is autumn and the falling fruit
and the long journey towards oblivion.

D.H. Lawrence

Last Poems

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Autumn

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D.H. Lawrence

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The Ship of Death Last Poems

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

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Lawrence, D.H. "The Ship of Death." Last Poems, edited by Richard Aldington and Giuseppe Orioli. The Viking Press, 1932, stanza 1.

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The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Nancy Mitford

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Unfairness of life

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Nancy Mitford

Source

The Pursuit of Love

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1945 1940s 20th century

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Mitford, Nancy. The Pursuit of Love. Hamish Hamilton, 1945, ch. 1.

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The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

Henry Maine

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Progress

Author

Henry Maine

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Historical literature

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English

Time

1861 1860s 19th century

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Maine, Henry. Ancient Law. London: John Murray, 1861, ch. 5.

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Economics limps along with one foot in untested hypotheses and the other in untestable slogans.

Joan Robinson

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Economics

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Joan Robinson

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Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Robinson, Joan. "Metaphysics, Morals and Science." Economic Philosophy. C. A. Watts and Co., 1962.

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Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. And Mrs. Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father, or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action.

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

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War Bureaucracy

Author

Joseph Heller

Source

Catch-22

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

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Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. Simon & Schuster, 1961, ch. 31.

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Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terre... These form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... This is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.

Vladimir Nabokov

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The moon

Author

Vladimir Nabokov

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English

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1969 1960s 20th century

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Nabokov, Vladimir. Quoted in The New York Times. 21 July 1969.

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