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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day,
To-morrow will be dying.

Robert Herrick

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Topic

Living in the moment Youth Passage of time Time

Author

Robert Herrick

Source

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1648 1640s 17th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Herrick, Robert. "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." Hesperides; or the Works both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick Esq. London: John Williams, 1648.

Current Citation

Herrick, Robert. "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." The Cavalier Poets: An Anthology, edited by Thomas Crofts. Dover Publications, 1995.

I have here in my hand a list of 205... A list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.

Joseph McCarthy

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Topic

Red Scare Cold War Communism American politics

Speaker

Joseph McCarthy

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

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Citation

McCarthy, Joseph. "Enemies from Within." Republican's Women's Club meeting. 9 Feb. 1950, Wheeling, WV, USA. Speech.

As always, victory will have a hundred fathers, but defeat will never be acknowledged by anyone at all.

Galeazzo Ciano

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Topic

Taking credit Winning and losing Winning Losing

Author

Galeazzo Ciano

Medium

Personal journal

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Italian

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Ciano, Galeazzo. Diary entry. 9 Sept. 1942.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

John Berryman

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Topic

Facing one's fears Courage Fear

Author

John Berryman

Source

A Point of Age

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Berryman, John. "A Point of Age." Poems. New Directions, 1942.

Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel, a facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal. We are intimately related.

Fred Rogers

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Topic

Interconnectedness of all people The world

Speaker

Fred Rogers

Source

2002 Dartmouth commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rogers, Fred. Commencement address to the Dartmouth Class of 2002. Commencement cermony. 2002, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

Beauty can pierce one like a pain.

Thomas Mann

Buddenbrooks

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Topic

Power of beauty Beauty

Author

Thomas Mann

Source

Buddenbrooks

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

German

Time

1901 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Mann, Thomas. Buddenbrooks. Berlin: S. Fischer Verlag, 1901, pt. 11, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Mann, Thomas. Buddenbrooks. Dover Publications, 2020, pt. 11, ch. 2.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind.

Gordon Gekko

Wall Street

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Topic

Greed Capitalism Progress Human nature

Speaker

Gordon Gekko

Actor

Michael Douglas

Source

Wall Street

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wall Street. Directed by Oliver Stone, American Entertainment Partners/American Films, 1987.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

Louis Brandeis

Olmstead v. United States

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Topic

Threats to freedom Freedom

Author

Louis Brandeis

Source

Olmstead v. United States

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Dissenting opinion Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Brandeis, Louis. Dissenting Opinion. Olmstead v. United States. United States Reports, vol. 277, 4 June 1928, pp. 471-485. Justia, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/277/438/.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that Fate and character are the same conception.

Novalis

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Topic

Character Fate

Speaker

Heinrich von Ofterdingen

Author

Novalis

Source

Heinrich von Ofterdingen

Language

German

Time

1802 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Novalis. Heinrich von Ofterdingen. Berlin, 1802, pt. 2.

Current Citation

Novalis. Henry von Ofterdingen. Dover Publications, 2015, pt. 2.

Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?

Edward N. Lorenz

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Topic

Butterfly effect Interconnectedness of all things Cause and effect

Author

Edward N. Lorenz

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lorenz, Edward N. "Predictability: Does the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?" Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 29 Dec. 1979, Washington, DC, USA.

When you wish upon a star,
Makes no difference who you are,
Anything your heart desires will come to you.

Pinocchio

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Topic

Wish fulfillment

Speaker

Jiminy Cricket

Actor

Cliff Edwards

Source

When You Wish Upon a Star Pinocchio

Medium

Song Film

Genre

Animation (film) Musical (film) Animation Musical

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"When You Wish Upon a Star." Pinocchio. Composed by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington, performed by Cliff Edwards. Walt Disney Productions, 1940.

What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of man's ideological evolution and the universalism of Western liberal democracy.

Francis Fukuyama

The End of History?

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Topic

Cold War End of history Democracy International politics

Speaker

Francis Fukuyama

Source

The End of History?

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Statement Type

Bad predictions Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Fukuyama, Francis. "The End of History?" National Interest, summer 1989.

Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Topic

Nature of love Love Relationships

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Source

Wind, Sand and Stars

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

French

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

De Saint-Exupery, Antoine. Terre des hommes [Wind, Sand and Stars]. Gallimard, 1939.

If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me, ye women, if you can.

Anne Bradstreet

To my Dear and Loving Husband

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Topic

True love

Author

Anne Bradstreet

Source

To my Dear and Loving Husband

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1672 1670s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Bradstreet, Anne. "To my Dear and Loving Husband." Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, Full of Delight. Boston: John Foster, 1678, I. 1.

Current Citation

Bradstreet, Anne. "To my Dear and Loving Husband." To My Husband and Other Poems, edited by Robert Hutchinson. Dover Publications, 2011.

Sic transit gloria mundi.

Spoken during the coronation of a new Pope while flax is burned to represent the transience of earthly glory.

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Topic

Impermanence Mortality Vanitas The human condition

Language

Latin

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Papal coronation ceremonies from c. 1409-1963, https://aleteia.org/2019/03/02/sic-transit-gloria-mundi-was-once-a-common-warning-to-new-popes/

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

The Physicists

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Topic

Intellectual progress

Speaker

Mobius

Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Source

The Physicists

Medium

Play

Language

German

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Durrenmatt, Friedrich. Die Physiker [The Physicists]. 1962, Zurich, Switzerland, act 2.

Current Citation

Durrenmatt, Friedrich. The Physicists, translated by Joel Agee. Grove Press, 2010, act 2.

The greatness of art, like poetry or music, is that it is totally unnecessary.

Christo

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Topic

Art for art's sake Art

Author

Christo

Source

D Magazine

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Christo. "Interview: Christo On the Freedom of Unnecessary Art." Interviewed by Peter Simek. D Magazine, 24 Feb. 2011.

An armed society is a polite society.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Topic

Gun rights Guns

Speaker

Mordan Claude

Author

Robert A. Heinlein

Source

Beyond This Horizon

Medium

Novel

Genre

Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Heinlein, Robert A [published as Anson MacDonald]. "Beyond This Horizon." Astounding Science Fiction, Apr. 1942 - May 1942.

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.

Groucho Marx

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Topic

Social status Man as social animal

Author

Groucho Marx

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Marx, Groucho. Letter to President of Hollywood Club. c. 1949.

Growing up happens in a heartbeat. One day, you’re in diapers; next day, you’re gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a place, a town, a house…like a lot of other houses; a yard like a lot of other yards; on a street like a lot of other streets. And the thing is…after all these years, I still look back…with wonder.

The Wonder Years

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Topic

Looking back Growing up Childhood Passage of time

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

1993 1990s 20th century

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Citation

"Independence Day." The Wonder Years, written by Neal Marlens and Carol Black and Bob Brush, directed by Michael Dinner, season 6, episode 22, The Black/Marlens Company and New World Television, 1993.