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I'm too sad to walk. Just give me a few...hours.

Inside Out

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Topic

Moping Sadness

Speaker

Sadness

Actor

Phyllis Smith

Source

Inside Out

Medium

Film

Genre

Animation (film) Animation

Language

English

Time

2015 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Inside Out. Directed by Pete Docter, Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures, 2015.

Look, the point is, stop trying so hard to be something you're not.

How to Train Your Dragon

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Topic

Putting up a front Being oneself Authenticity

Speaker

Gobber

Actor

Craig Ferguson

Source

How to Train Your Dragon

Medium

Film

Genre

Animation (film) Fantasy (film) Animation Fantasy

Language

English

Time

2010 2010s 21st century

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Citation

How to Train Your Dragon. Directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois. DreamWorks Animation, 2010.

Shit, I cry so much sometimes I feel I’m a just turn into droplets.

Moonlight

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Topic

Crying Emotions

Speaker

Chiron

Actor

Ashton Sanders

Source

Moonlight

Medium

Film

Genre

Coming of age (film) Drama (film) Coming of age Drama

Language

English

Time

2016 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Moonlight. Directed by Barry Jenkins, A24/Plan B Entertainment/Pastel Productions, 2016.

The people must fight in defense of the law as they would for their city wall.

Heraclitus

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Topic

Rule of law Law

Author

Heraclitus

Medium

Presocratic fragment Fragment

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Heraclitus. Fragments. 5th century BC, F53 - DK B44.

Current Citation

Heraclitus. "Heraclitus of Ephesus." The First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2009, F53 - DK B44.

I want to open up my own club one day, maybe call it something like Club a Dub Dub or the Club Marine, sort of a submarine-themed club, or Tom’s Bistro. The word "bistro" is classy as shit.

Tom Haverford

Parks and Recreation

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Topic

Business ideas

Speaker

Tom Haverford

Actor

Aziz Ansari

Source

Parks and Recreation

Medium

TV program

Genre

Comedy (TV) Comedy

Language

English

Time

2010 2010s 21st century

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Citation

"Woman of the Year." Parks and Recreation, written by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur and Norm Hiscock, directed by Jason Woliner, season 2, episode 17, Deedle-Dee Productions and Fremulon, 2010.

Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy.

Soren Kierkegaard

Either Or

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Topic

Regrets The human condition

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Source

Either Or

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Danish

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

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Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren [published as Victor Eremita]. Enten-Eller [Either/Or]. Vol. 1, Copenhagen: University bookshop, 1843.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Either/Or: A Fragment of Life, translated by Alistair Hanny. Penguin Classics, 1992, pt. 1.

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in har¬ mony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Nelson Mandela

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Activism Anti-colonialism Anti-imperialism Equality

Speaker

Nelson Mandela

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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We must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

Margaret Thatcher

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Topic

Terrorism

Speaker

Margaret Thatcher

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1985 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Thatcher, Margaret. Speech to American Bar Association. 15 July 1985, Albert Hall, London, England, UK.

The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end, yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again. That is their mystery and their magic.

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

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Topic

Stories

Author

Arundhati Roy

Source

The God of Small Things

Medium

Novel

Genre

Post-colonial literature

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 12.

Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts.

Kellyanne Conway

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Topic

American politics

Speaker

Kellyanne Conway

Source

Meet the Press

Medium

TV broadcast TV program

Language

English

Time

2017 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Conway, Kellyanne. "Meet the Press." Interviewed by Chuck Todd. NBC, 2017. Television program.

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't... All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Mao Zedong

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Topic

Nuclear weapons

Speaker

Mao Zedong

Medium

Interview

Language

Chinese

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Zedong, Mao. Talk with the American Correspondent Anna Louise Strong. Aug. 1946.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Defense of Poetry

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Topic

Poetry Politics is downstream of culture

Author

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source

A Defense of Poetry

Language

English

Time

1822 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "A Defence of Poetry." Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments. Vol. 1. London: Edward Moxon, 1840.

Current Citation

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "A Defence of Poetry." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009.

He will swallow up death forever, And the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces; The rebuke of His people He will take away from all the earth; For the Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 25:8

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Topic

Victory over death Death End times

Source

Isaiah The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

Language

Hebrew

Time

681 BC 680s BC 7th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible, New King James Version. Thomas Nelson, 1982. (Isaiah 25:8).

Beer leads to more beer.

No Country for Old Men

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Topic

Beer Drinking alcohol Alcohol

Speaker

Poolside Woman

Actor

Ana Reeder

Source

No Country for Old Men

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime thriller (film) Thriller (film) Crime thriller Thriller

Language

English

Time

2007 2000s 21st century

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Citation

No Country for Old Men. Directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Scott Rudin Productions/Mike Zoss Productions, 2007.

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.

Psalm 14:1

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Topic

Existence of God Atheism

Source

Psalms The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

450 BC 450s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Psalm 14:1).

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

Ephesians 5:22-23

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Topic

Gender roles Men and women Marriage

Source

Ephesians The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Orders and commands

Language

Greek

Time

62 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ephesians 5:22-23).

In a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents. A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot. A republic may be extended over a large region.

James Madison

Federalist 14

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Republic vs. democracy Political theory Politics

Author

James Madison

Source

Federalist 14 The Federalist Papers

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1787 1780s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

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Original Citation

Madison, James [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 14: Objections to the Proposed Constitution From Extent of Territory Answered." New York Packet, 30 Nov. 1787.

Current Citation

Madison, James. "No. 14: Proposed union not too large for republican government.--Madison." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Conservative

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Topic

Conservatism Politics

Speaker

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

The Conservative

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1841 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The Conservative." 9 Dec. 1841, Masonic Temple, Boston, MA, USA.

It is a land of desire for all those who are weary of the historical arsenal of old Europe.

G.W.F. Hegel

On America.

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Topic

America America and Europe

Author

G.W.F. Hegel

Source

Lectures on the Philosophy of Wold History: Introduction

Medium

Lecture

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1830 1830s 19th century

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Original Citation

Hegel, G. W. F. Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte [Lectures on the Philosophy of World History]. c. 1830, University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Current Citation

Hegel, G. W. F. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge University Press, 1981.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

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Samuel Butler (Novelist)

Source

Life and Habit

Genre

Scientific literature

Statement Type

Inversion

Language

English

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Butler, Samuel. Life and Habit. London: Trübner and Co., 1877, ch. 8.