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Religion is an all-important matter in a public school for girls. Whatever people say, it is the mother's safeguard, and the husband's. What we ask of education is not that girls should think, but that they should believe.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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Education of girls Gender roles Oppression of women

Author

Napoleon Bonaparte

Source

Note sur L'Etablissement D'Ecouen

Medium

Letter

Language

French

Time

1807 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Bonaparte, Napoleon. Note sur L'Etablissement D'Ecouen [Note on the establishment of Écouen]. 15 May 1807.

You are literally too stupid to insult.

The Hangover

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Topic

Stupid people

Speaker

Stu Price

Actor

Ed Helms

Source

The Hangover

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Statement Type

Insult

Language

English

Time

2009 2000s 21st century

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Citation

The Hangover. Directed by Todd Phillips, Ledgendary Entertainment/Greenhat Films/Bender/Spink, 2009.

Listen, when women go wrong, men go right after them.

Lady Lou

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Topic

Men and women

Speaker

Lady Lou

Actor

Mae West

Source

She Done Him Wrong

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic comedy (film) Romantic comedy

Language

English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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Citation

She Done Him Wrong. Directed by Lowell Sherman, Paramount Pictures, 1933.

But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.

Apostle Paul

1st Corinthians 15:20-22

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Resurrection of Jesus Salvation through Jesus Salvation

Author

Apostle Paul

Source

1st Corinthians The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

55 50s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st Corinthians 15:20-22).

Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.

Richard Dawkins

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Natural selection Evolution Human nature

Author

Richard Dawkins

Source

The Independent

Medium

Interview Newspaper

Language

English

Time

2006 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Dawkins, Richard. "Richard Dawkins: You Ask the Questions Special." The Independent, 4 Dec. 2006.

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. It is a story which otherwise has yet to be told and which no American is prepared to hear.

James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son

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Black music Race relations

Author

James Baldwin

Source

Notes of a Native Son

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

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Original Citation

Baldwin, James. "Many Thousands Gone." Partisan Review, Nov. 1951 - Dec. 1951.

Current Citation

Baldwin, James. "Many Thousands Gone." James Baldwin: Collected Essays, edited by Toni Morrison. Library of America, 1998.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Apostle Paul

Philippians 4:13

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God's strength

Author

Apostle Paul

Source

Philippians The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

62 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. The Lockman Foundation, 1971. (Philippians 4:13).

What I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport.

Albert Camus

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Sports Morality

Speaker

Albert Camus

Source

La belle époque RUA Magazine

Language

French

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Camus, Albert. "La Belle Époque [The Beautiful Era]." RUA Magazine, 15 Apr. 1953.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common, quality of human nature.

Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Martial courage Soldiers

Author

Edward Gibbon

Source

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1776 1770s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 1, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1776, ch. 26.

Current Citation

Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 1. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 26.

They're old people. They eat, they sleep, they complain, they watch Family Feud. Oh my god, I wanna be an old person.

Parks and Recreation

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Old age

Speaker

Andy Dwyer

Actor

Chris Pratt

Source

Parks and Recreation

Medium

TV program

Genre

Comedy (TV) Comedy

Language

English

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

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Citation

"Anniversaries." Parks and Recreation, written by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur and Megan Amram, directed by Morgan Sackett, season 6, episode 14, Deedle-Dee Productions and Fremulon, 2014.

Is It fitting to consider what is impermanent, painful, and subject to change as, "This is mine, this am I, this is my self"?

Pali Tipitaka

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Impermanence

Source

Pali Tipitaka

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Question

Language

Sanskrit

Time

100 BC 100s BC 2nd century BC

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Pali Tipitaka. c. 100 BC, Vinaya, Mahav 1:6.

Current Citation

Meghaprasara, Matthew. New Guide to the Tipitaka. Sangha of Books, 2013, Vinaya Pitaka, Maha Vagga 1:6.

We have a beautiful mother
Her green lap immense
Her brown embrace eternal
Her blue body everything
We know.

Alice Walker

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Topic

Mother earth The earth

Author

Alice Walker

Source

We Have a Beautiful Mother Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Walker, Alice. "We Have a Beautiful Mother." Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991, I. 23.

Government is not the problem, and Government is not the solution. We—the American people—we are the solution. Our Founders understood that well and gave us a democracy strong enough to endure for centuries, flexible enough to face our common challenges and advance our common dreams in each new day.

Bill Clinton

Second Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton

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Political theory American politics

Speaker

Bill Clinton

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Clinton, William J. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1997, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

The War of Catiline

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Fame Wealth Virtue

Author

Sallust

Source

The War of Catiline

Genre

Historical literature

Language

Latin

Time

42 BC 40s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Sallust. Bellum Catilinae [War of Catiline]. c. 43–40 BC.

Current Citation

Sallust. "The War with Catiline." The War with Catiline and The War with Jugurtha, translated by John T. Ramsey J. C. Rolfe. Harvard University Press, 2013.

So the Lord said, "I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them."

Genesis 6:7

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God's wrath God's covenant Noah's flood

Source

Genesis

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (Genesis 6:7).

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

Albert Einstein

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Topic

War International politics

Speaker

Albert Einstein

Source

Einstein on the Atomic Bomb Atlantic Monthly

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1945 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Einstein, Albert. "Einstein on the Atomic Bomb." Interviewed by Raymond Swing. Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1945.

Current Citation

Einstein, Albert. Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb. Princeton University Press, 2013, ch. 8.

Happiness is in doing, not in the getting what you want.

Before Sunset

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Happiness

Speaker

Jesse

Actor

Ethan Hawke

Source

Before Sunset

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic drama (film) Drama (film) Romantic drama Drama

Language

English

Time

2004 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Before Sunset. Directed by Richard Linklater, Castle Rock Entertainment/ Detour Filmproduction/Columbia Pictures, 2004.

They saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh. And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

Matthew 2:11-12

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Topic

Jesus's birth

Source

Gospel of Matthew The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

60 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 2:11-12).

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

William Blake

Songs of Experience

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Charismatic megafauna Animals

Author

William Blake

Source

Songs of Experience

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1794 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Blake, William. "The Tyger." Songs of Innocence and of Experience Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul. London, 1794.

Current Citation

Blake, William. "The Tyger." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Anyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great.

Ratatouille

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Topic

Cooking

Speaker

Gusteau

Actor

Brad Garrett

Source

Ratatouille

Medium

Film

Genre

Animation (film) Comedy (film) Animation Comedy

Language

English

Time

2007 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Ratatouille. Directed by Brad Bird, Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures, 2007.