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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Alexander Pope

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Learning from mistakes Personal growth

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Alexander Pope

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Thoughts on Various Subjects

Language

English

Time

1727 1720s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Pope, Alexander. "Thoughts on Various Subjects." Swifts's Miscellanies. London, 1727, no. 11.

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What Sculpture is to a Block of Marble, Education is to a Human Soul.

Joseph Addison

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Education

Author

Joseph Addison

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1711 1710s 18th century

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Addison, Joseph. "Tuesday, November 6, 1711." The Spectator, 1711, no. 215.

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People come up to me all the time and say "you should be a model," or, "you look just like a model," or "maybe you should try to be a man who models." And I always have to laugh because I'm so good looking. Of course I'm a model.

Derek Zoolander

Zoolander

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Modeling

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Derek Zoolander

Actor

Ben Stiller

Source

Zoolander

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Zoolander. Directed by Ben Stiller, Village Roadshow Productions/VH1 Films/NPV Entertinment/Red Hour Productions/Scott Rudin Productions, 2001.

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You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?

Independence Day

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Government spending

Speaker

Julius Levinson

Actor

Judd Hirsch

Source

Independence Day

Medium

Film

Genre

Science fiction (film) Action (film) Science fiction Action

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Independence Day. Directed by Roland Emmerich, Centropolis Entertainment, 1996.

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Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

Joseph Pulitzer

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Freedom of the press Media

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Joseph Pulitzer

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English

Time

1904 1900s 20th century

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Pulitzer, Joseph. "The College of Journalism.” The North American Review, May 1904.

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We are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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American Civil War Military strategy

Author

William Tecumseh Sherman

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Letter to Henry W. Halleck

Medium

Letter

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English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

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Sherman, William Tecumsch. Letter to Henry W. Halleck. 24 Dec. 1864.

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Sherman, William Tecumsch. Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Vol. 2, Penguin Classics, 2000, ch. 21.

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What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and one's existence as a sexual being.

Susan Sontag

The Pornographic Imagination

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Pornography

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Susan Sontag

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The Pornographic Imagination Partisan Review

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

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Sontag, Susan. "The Pornographic Imagination." Partisan Review, Spring 1967.

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Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should.

Jurassic Park

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Technological progress Downsides of progress

Speaker

Malcolm

Actor

Jeff Goldblum

Source

Jurassic Park

Medium

Film

Genre

Science fiction (film) Action (film) Science fiction Action

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Jurassic Park. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment, 1993.

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All of my friends at school grew up and settled down
And they mortgaged up their life
One thing's not said too much, but I think it's true
They just get married cause there's nothing else to do.

The Rolling Stones

Sittin' on a Fence

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Settling Marriage

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The Rolling Stones

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Sittin' on a Fence

Medium

Song

Genre

Rock music

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

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Richards, Keith and Mick Jagger. Sittin' on a Fence. Performed by Twice as Much. Immediate Records, 1966.

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The book says we might be through with the past, but the past is not through with us!

Magnolia

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Effects of the past The past

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Jimmy Gator

Actor

Philip Baker Hall

Source

Magnolia

Medium

Film

Genre

Psychological drama (film) Drama (film) Psychological drama Drama

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Magnolia. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Ghoulardi Film Company/JoAnne Sellar Productions, 1999.

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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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Books

Author

Barbara W. Tuchman

Source

The Washington Post

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Tuchman, Barbara. "Papyrus to Paperbacks: The World that Books Made." The Washington Post, 30 Dec. 1979.

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I woke up in a great mood. I don’t know what happened.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

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Good mood Optimism

Speaker

Mike Damone

Actor

Robert Romanus

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Medium

Film

Genre

Coming of age (film) Comedy (drama) Coming of age Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Directed by Amy Heckerling,Refugee Films, 1982.

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Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest and like a forest it's easy to lose your way...to get lost...to forget where you came in.

Kill Bill: Volume 1

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Revenge

Speaker

Hattori Hanzo

Actor

Shin'ichi Chiba

Source

Kill Bill: Volume 1

Medium

Film

Genre

Martial arts (film) Action (film) Martial arts Action

Language

Japanese

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Kill Bill: Volume 1. Directed by Quentin Tarantino. A Band Apart, 2003.

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Science is whatever we want it to be.

30 Rock

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Nature of science Science

Speaker

Dr. Spaceman

Actor

Chris Parnell

Source

30 Rock

Medium

TV program

Genre

Comedy (TV) Comedy

Language

English

Time

2007 2000s 21st century

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"Fireworks." 30 Rock, written by Tina Fey and Dave Finkel, directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller, season 1, episode 18, Broadway Video and Little Stranger, 2007.

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You cannot conquer America.

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

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America

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William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1777 1770s 18th century

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Pitt, William. Speech responding to a speech by Henry Howard who spoke in favour of the war against the American colonists. House of Lords meeting. 18 Nov. 1777, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.

Hannah Arendt

On Violence

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Power Violence Opposites Political theory Politics

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Hannah Arendt

Source

On Violence

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Arendt, Hannah. "On Violence." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972, ch. 2. Originally published as "A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence." by The New York Review, 27 Feb. 1969.

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Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan-spoiled.

Israel Zangwill

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Christianity Paganism

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Sidney

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Israel Zangwill

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Children of the Ghetto

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

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Zangwill, Israel. Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People. The Jewish Publication Society, 1892, bk. 2, ch. 6.

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Zangwill, Israel. Children of the Ghetto. Wayne State University Press, 1998, bk. 2, ch. 6.

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Praising all alike, is praising none.

John Gay

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Praising others

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John Gay

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A Letter to a Lady

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1714 1710s 18th century

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Gay, John. A Poem: in a Letter to a Lady: Occasion'd by the Arrival of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. Dublin: Daniel Tompson, 1714, I. 120.

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Gay, John. A Letter to a Lady. The British Library, 2011, I. 120.

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Prosperity brings with it an intoxication which inferior men are unable to resist.

Honoré de Balzac

La Comédie humaine

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Corrosive effects of wealth Downsides of wealth Wealth

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Honoré de Balzac

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César Birotteau La Comédie humaine

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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De Balzac, Honoré. César Birotteau. Paris: Charles-Béchet, 1837.

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De Balzac, Honoré. César Birotteau. Penguin Classics, 1994.

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Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.

Bruce Oldfield

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Fashion

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Bruce Oldfield

Source

Independent

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Oldfield, Bruce. The Independent. 9 Sept. 1989.

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