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Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Chester W. Nimitz

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Describing the battle of Iwo Jima.

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World War II

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Chester W. Nimitz

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English

Time

1945 1940s 20th century

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Nimitz, Chester W. Statement after the Battle of Iwo Jima. c. 1945, Iwo Jima, Tokyo, Japan.

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Let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good.

Harold Macmillan

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Prosperity Progress

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Harold Macmillan

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Speech

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Political speech

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English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Macmillan, Harold. Speech in England. 20 July 1957, Bedford, England, UK.

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Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word "human."

Suzanne LaFollette

The Beginnings of Emancipation

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Human rights

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Suzanne LaFollette

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The Beginnings of Emancipation Concerning Women

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English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

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LaFollette, Suzanne. Concerning Women. Albert & Charles Boni, 1926, ch. 1.

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People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.

Helen Prejean

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Quoted in The New York Times Magazine

Describing her opposition to the death penalty.

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Capital punishment Second chances

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Helen Prejean

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The New York Times Magazine

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Prejean, Helen. Quoted in "Sister Sympathy." Written by Sue Helpren. The New York Times Magazine, 9 May 1993.

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I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

William Faulkner

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Human nature

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William Faulkner

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Nobel Prize Lecture Speech

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English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

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Faulkner, William. Speech at the Nobel Banquet. Nobel Banquet. 10 Dec. 1950, City Hall, Stockholm, Sweden.

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The Government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The United States recognizes the provisional government of the de facto authority of the new state of Israel.

Harry Truman

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Zionism Israel

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Harry Truman

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English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

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Truman, Harry S. Statement announcing recognition of the State of Israel. 14 May 1948, Washington, DC, USA.

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Life Begins at Forty.

Walter B. Pitkin

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Title of book.

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Middle age Aging

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Walter B. Pitkin

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English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Pitkin, Walter B. Life Begins at Forty. Whittlesey House McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1932.

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Whether you are dealing with an animal or a child, to convince is to weaken.

Colette

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Persuasion

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Colette

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The Pure and the Impure

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Colette. Le Pur et l'impur and Ces Plaisirs [The Pure and the Impure and These Pleasures]. J. Ferenczi & fils, 1932, ch. 9.

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Colette. The Pure and the Impure. NYRB Classics, 2000, ch. 9.

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Oops.

Rick Perry

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Remark after failing to recall the third federal agency he had just said he would eliminate if elected President.

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Forgetfulness

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Rick Perry

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Political debate

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Political gaffe

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Perry, Rick. Spoken at republican presidential campaign debate. Republican presidential campaign debate. 9 Nov. 2011, Rochester, MI, USA.

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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

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No Mean City

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Simeon Strunsky

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No Mean City

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Novel

Language

English

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

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Strunsky, Simeon. No Mean City. E.P. Dutton, 1944, ch. 38.

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Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

Boris Pasternak

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Travel

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Boris Pasternak

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Letter

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Russian

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

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Pasternak, Boris. Letter to Nikita Khrushchev. 30 Oct. 1958.

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That's the way the ball bounces.

George Mandel

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Randomness

Author

George Mandel

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English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

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Mandel, George. Flee the Angry Strangers. Bobbs-Merrill, 1952.

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You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will. War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it; and those who brought war into our country deserve all the curses and maledictions a people can pour out.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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Horrors of war War American Civil War

Author

William Tecumseh Sherman

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

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Sherman, William Tecumseh. Letter to Mayor James M. Calhoun and E. E. Rawson and S. C. Wells. 12 Sept. 1864.

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Sherman, William Tecumseh. Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865. University of North Carolina Press, 1999, ch. 12.

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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out and death's the other.

Tennessee Williams

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Alcohol as balm Death as a blessing The human condition

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Brick

Author

Tennessee Williams

Source

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play) Drama Southern Gothic

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Directed by Elia Kazan. Performed by Barbara Bel Geddes and Burl Ives and Ben Gazzara. 24 Mar. 1955, Morosco Theatre, New York City, New York, USA, act 2.

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Williams, Tennessee. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. New Directions, 2004, act 2.

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Love is a joint experience between two persons-but the fact it is a joint experience does not mean it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and beloved, but these two come from different countries.

Carson McCullers

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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

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Nature of love

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Carson McCullers

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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Medium

Novella

Language

English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

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McCullers, Carson. "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." Harper's Bazaar, 1943.

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McCullers, Carson. "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe." The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe and Other Stories. Mariner Books, 2005.

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Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Tennessee Williams

The Timeless World of a Play

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Relentlessness of time

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Tennessee Williams

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The Timeless World of a Play The New York Times

Medium

Essay

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English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

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Williams, Tennessee. "The Timeless World of a Play." The New York Times, 14 Mar. 1951.

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His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate'er he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Knickerbocker

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Dignity of work Work

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The Village Blacksmith The Knickerbocker

Medium

Poem Magazine

Language

English

Time

1840 1840s 19th century

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Village Blacksmith." The Knickerbocker. New York City: Lewis Gaylord Clark, Nov. 1840, I. 9.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Village Blacksmith." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, I. 9.

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The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of woman.

Alain René Lesage 

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Women Talking too much

Author

Alain René Lesage 

Source

Gil Blas

Medium

Novel

Genre

Picaresque

Language

French

Time

1724 1720s 18th century

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Lesage, Alain-Rene. L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane [History of Gil Blas de Santillane]. Paris: Pierre Ribou, 1724, bk. 7, ch. 7.

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Simply because a problem can be shown to exist, it doesn't necessarily follow that there is a solution.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Solving problems

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Donald Rumsfeld

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English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Rumsfeld, Donald. Quoted in Interavia Business & Technology. 1 Jan. 2001.

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It's the darkness that's got you down. Nobody feels really safe in the dark.

Rope

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The dark

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Brandon

Actor

John Dall

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Rope

Genre

Psychological thriller (film) Thriller (film) Psychological thriller Thriller

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

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Rope. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Transatlantic Pictures, 1948.

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