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I'm going to take a pillowcase and fill it full of bars of soap and beat the shit out of you!

Step Brothers

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Topic

Beating someone up

Speaker

Brennan Huff

Actor

Will Ferrell

Source

Step Brothers

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Statement Type

Threat

Language

English

Time

2008 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Step Brothers. Directed by Adam McKay, Columbia Pictures/Relativity Media/The Apatow Company/Mosaic Media Group/Gary Sanchez Productions, 2008.

You know, I think you gotta be a little deluded
to stay motivated.

Before Midnight

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Topic

Delusion Motivation

Speaker

Jesse

Actor

Ethan Hawke

Source

Before Midnight

Medium

Film

Genre

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

Language

English

Time

2013 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Before Midnight. Directed by Richard Linklater, Castle Rock Entertainment/Venture Forth/Detour Filmproduction, 2013.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty.

John Keats

Annals of the Fine Arts for 1819

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Topic

Beauty Truth

Author

John Keats

Source

Ode on a Grecian Urn Annals of the Fine Arts for 1819

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1820 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Keats, John, [published anonymously]. "Ode on a Grecian Urn." Annals of the Fine Arts for 1819. London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1820.

Current Citation

Keats, John. "Ode on a Grecian Urn." John Keats: The Major Works, edited by Elizabeth Cook. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.

W.H. Auden

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Topic

Financial freedom Money Freedom

Author

W.H. Auden

Source

A Poet of the Actual Forewords and Afterwords

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Auden, W. H. "A Poet of the Actual." Forewords and Afterwords. Random House/Faber and Faber, 1973.

He was a man
Of an unbounded stomach.

William Shakespeare

Henry VIII

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Topic

Appetite

Speaker

Queen Katherine

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Henry VIII

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play)

Language

English

Time

1613 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William and John Fletcher. Henry VIII. King's Men, 1613, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Henry the Eighth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblattet al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 2.

Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.

Abraham Lincoln

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Topic

Land of opportunity American Dream Social mobility

Speaker

Abraham Lincoln

Source

Speech to the 148th Ohio Regiment

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech to the 148th Ohio Regiment." 31 Aug. 1864, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech to 148th Ohio Regiment, Washington, D.C, August 31, 1864." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

Adventure is out there!

Up

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Topic

Adventure

Speaker

Young Ellie

Actor

Elie Docter

Source

Up

Medium

Film

Genre

Animation (film) Animation

Language

English

Time

2009 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Up. Directed by Pete Docter. Pixar Animation Studios/Pixar Animation Studios, 2009.

I have done my plowing:
I have sown my seed.
Again I have time to sit and read my books.

Tao Yuanming

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Topic

Leisure Reading

Author

Tao Yuanming

Language

Chinese

Time

427 420s 5th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Yuanming, Tao. Reading the Book of Hills and Seas. c. 427.

The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

Quintus Ennius

Quoted in On the Nature of the Gods, by Cicero

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Topic

Apes Primates Animals Man and animals

Speaker

Quintus Ennius

Author

Cicero

Source

On the Nature of the Gods

Medium

Essay

Language

Latin

Time

45 BC 40s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Quintus Ennius. Quoted in De Natura Deorum [On the Nature of the Gods], written by Cicero. c. 45 BC, bk. 1.

Current Citation

Quintus Ennius. Quoted in The Nature of the Gods, written by Cicero, translated by P. G. Walsh. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1.

I will not accept if nominated, and will not serve if elected.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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Topic

American Presidency

Author

William Tecumseh Sherman

Medium

Telegram

Language

English

Time

1884 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Sherman, William Tecumseh. Telegram to General Henderson. 1884.

I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king.

Elizabeth I

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Topic

Inner strength Girl power

Author

Elizabeth I

Source

Tilbury Speech

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1588 1580s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 0

Original Citation

Queen Elizabeth I. Speech to her troops in the Spanish Armada. 9 Aug. 1588, Tilbury, England, UK.

Current Citation

Queen Elizabeth I. Elizabeth I: Collected Works. University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Topic

Nature of man Man and animals

Speaker

Benjamin Disraeli

Source

Speeches of Benjamin Disraeli

Medium

Speech

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Disraeli, Benjamin. Speech about meanings and origin of on the side of the angels. Oxford Diocesan Conference. 25 Nov. 1864, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, England, UK.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

Abraham Lincoln

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Topic

Slavery Freedom Hypocrisy American politics

Speaker

Abraham Lincoln

Source

Speeches of Abraham Lincoln

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1854 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. Speech at Springfield, IL. 4 Oct. 1854, Springfield, IL, USA.

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Jesus

Matthew 11:28

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Topic

Following Jesus

Speaker

Jesus

Source

Gospel of Matthew The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Orders and commands

Language

Greek

Time

60 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 11:28).

A little fall of rain can hardly hurt me now.

Les Miserables

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Topic

Adversity Inner strength

Speaker

Eponine

Actor

Samantha Barks

Source

A Little Fall of Rain Les Miserables

Medium

Song Film

Genre

Musical (film) Epic (film) Musical Epic

Language

English

Time

2012 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"A Little Fall of Rain." Les Misérables. Directed by Tom Hooper, performed by Samantha Barks, Cameron Mackintosh Ltd/Working Title Films, 2012.

Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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Topic

Ocean and sea Water

Author

Herman Melville

Source

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 1.

For what happens to the sons of men also happens to animals; one thing befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Surely, they all have one breath; man has no advantage over animals, for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 3:19-20

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Topic

Man and animals Meaninglessness The human condition

Source

Ecclesiastes The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

931 BC 930s BC 10th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible, New King James Version. Thomas Nelson, 1982. (Ecclesiastes 3:19-20).

Irritated by no literary altercation, animated by no public debate, heated by no party animosity, I read it with great satisfaction, as the result of good heads prompted by good hearts, as an experiment better adapted to the genius, character, situation, and relations of this nation and country than any which had ever been proposed or suggested.

John Adams

Inaugural Address of John Adams

On the U.S. Constitution.

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Topic

US Constitution

Speaker

John Adams

Source

Inaugural Address of John Adams Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1797 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Adams, John. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1797, House Chamber, Congress Hall, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

Pliny the Elder

Naturalis Historia

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Topic

Plagiarism

Author

Pliny the Elder

Source

Naturalis Historia

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

Latin

Time

77 70s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, bk. 1.

Current Citation

Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 1.

I'm not sitting here because I'm some little woman standing by my man, like Tammy Wynette. I am sitting here because I love him and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through and what we've been through together.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

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Topic

American politics Infidelity

Speaker

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Source

60 Minutes

Medium

Interview TV program

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Clinton, Hillary. Interview on 60 Minutes. CBS-TV, 26 Jan. 1992.