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November's sky is chill and drear,
November's leaf is red and sear.

Sir Walter Scott

Marmion

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November Autumn

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Sir Walter Scott

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Marmion

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English

Time

1808 1800s 19th century

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Scott, Walter, Sir. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: William Miller and John Murray, 1808, introduction to canto 1, st. 1.

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Women complain about sex more often than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough.(2) Too much.

Ann Landers

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Women

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Ann Landers

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English

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1968 1960s 20th century

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Landers, Ann. Ann Landers Says: Truth is Stranger. Prentice-Hall, 1968, ch. 2.

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We go to gain a little patch of ground
That hath in it no profit but the name.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

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Absurdity of war War

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Captain

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William Shakespeare

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Hamlet

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Play

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Tragedy (play)

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English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 4, sc. 4.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 4.

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There'll be great Presidents again-and the Johnsons are wonderful, they've been wonderful to me-but there'll never be another Camelot again.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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American Presidency American politics

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Source

Life Magazine

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Magazine

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Prophecies and predictions

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English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Kennedy-Onassis, Jacqueline. Life Magazine. 6 Dec. 1963.

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We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through.

Woodrow Wilson

First Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson

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Downsides of progress Economic development American power

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Woodrow Wilson

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First Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Political speech

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English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

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Wilson, Woodrow. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1913, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

Albert Einstein

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Relativity Physics

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Albert Einstein

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Speech

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English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

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Einstein, Albert. Address in Paris. c. Dec. 1929, Sorbonne, Paris, France.

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Einstein, Albert. "Einstein on Classifications." New York Times, 16 Feb. 1930.

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Freedom alone substitutes from time to time for the love of material comfort more powerful and more lofty passions; it alone supplies ambition with greater objectives than the acquisition of riches, and creates the light that makes it possible to see and to judge the vices and virtues of mankind.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The Ancien Regime and the Revolution

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Benefits of freedom Freedom

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Alexis de Tocqueville

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The Ancien Regime and the Revolution

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Historical literature Political literature

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French

Time

1856 1850s 19th century

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution [The Ancien Régime and the Revolution]. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856, foreward.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. The Ancien Regime and the Revolution, translated by Gerald Bevan. Penguin Classics, 2008, foreward.

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Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense,—nonsense upon stilts.

Jeremy Bentham

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Human rights Natural law

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Jeremy Bentham

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Anarchical Fallacies; being an Examination of the Declarations of Rights issued during the French Revolution The Works of Jeremy Bentham

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Political literature

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English

Time

1832 1830s 19th century

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Bentham, Jeremy. "Anarchical Fallacies; being an Examination of the Declarations of Rights issued during the French Revolution." The Works of Jeremy Bentham. Vol. 2, Edinburgh: William Tait, 1843.

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We were good fellas. Wiseguys. But Jimmy and I could never be made because we had Irish blood. It didn't even matter that my mother was Sicilian. To become a member of a crew you've got to be one hundred percent Italian so they can trace all your relatives back to the old country. See, it's the highest honor they can give you. It means you belong to a family and a crew. It means that nobody can fuck around with you. It also means you could fuck around with anybody just as long as they aren't also a member. It's like a license to steal. It's a license to do anything.

Henry Hill

Goodfellas

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The mafia Life of crime

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Henry Hill

Actor

Ray Liotta

Source

Goodfellas

Medium

Film

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Crime (film) Crime

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English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

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Goodfellas. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Warner Bros., 1990.

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The necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one's own mind.

T.H. Huxley

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Thinking clearly Teaching

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T.H. Huxley

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Man's Place in Nature

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English

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1894 1890s 19th century

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. Man's Place in Nature and Other Anthropological Essays. London: Macmillan, 1894, preface.

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. Man's Place in Nature, edited by Stephen Jay Gould. Random House, 2001, preface.

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Tis less to be wonder'd at that women marry off in haste, for if they took time to consider and reflect upon it, they seldom would.

Mary Astell

Some Reflections Upon Marriage

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Marriage

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Mary Astell

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Some Reflections Upon Marriage

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Essay

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English

Time

1700 1700s 18th century

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Astell, Mary. Some Reflections Upon Marriage. London: John Nutt, 1700.

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Astell, Mary. "Some Reflections on Marriage." Astell: Political Writings. Cambridge University Press, 1996.

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I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.

Henry David Thoreau

Walking (Thoreau)

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Nature Wilderness Civilization Human nature

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Henry David Thoreau

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Walking (Thoreau)

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Lecture

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English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Walking." 23 Apr. 1851, Concord Lyceum, Concord, MA, USA. Lecture.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Walking." Civil Disobedience and Other Essays. Dover Publications, 1993.

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Perfection is the child of Time.

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Incremental improvement Progress Perfection

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Joseph Hall

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Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1625 1620s 17th century

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Hall, Joseph. The Works of Joseph Hall Doctor in Divinitie, and Deane of Worchester. London: Nath. Butter, 1625.

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Look back, and smile at perils past!

Sir Walter Scott

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Looking back The past

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Sir Walter Scott

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The Bridal of Triermain

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Poem

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English

Time

1813 1810s 19th century

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Scott, Walter, Sir [published anonymously]. "The Bridal of Triermain, or The Vale of St John." The Bridal of Triermain, Harold the Dauntless, Field of Waterloo, and Other Poems. Edinburgh: John Ballantyne and Co./London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, 1813.

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We find ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit; reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but falling into raucous discord on earth. We are caught in war, wanting peace. We are torn by division, wanting unity. We see around us empty lives, wanting fulfillment. We see tasks that need doing, waiting for hands to do them.

Richard Nixon

First Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon

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American prosperity Political division

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Richard Nixon

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First Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Political speech

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English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Nixon, Richard. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1969, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

The History of Freedom in Antiquity

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Freedom Political theory Politics

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Lord Acton

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The History of Freedom in Antiquity

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Lecture

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English

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

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Lord Acton. "The History of Freedom in Antiquity." 26 Feb. 1877, Bridgnorth Institute, Bridgnorth, England, UK. Address.

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Fools are here below for our minor pleasures.

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

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Fools

Speaker

Сléon

Author

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

Source

Le Méchant

Medium

Play

Language

French

Time

1747 1740s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Gresset, Jean-Baptiste-Louis. Le Méchant [The Villain]. 15 Apr. 1747, Comédie-Française, Paris, France, act 2, sc. 1.

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They don't care. Just so long as you're wearing a skirt. It's like waving a red flag in front of a bull.

Some Like it Hot

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Women's attractiveness Men and women

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Joe

Actor

Tony Curtis

Source

Some Like it Hot

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Film

Genre

Romantic comedy (film) Romantic comedy

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

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Some Like it Hot. Directed by Billy Wilder, The Mirisch Company, 1959.

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Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

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Youth Nations

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Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

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On the Study of History

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Essay

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1752 1750s 19th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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St. John, Henry. "Of the Study of History." Letters on the Study and Use of History. J. J. Tourneisen, 1788, letter 5.

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Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

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Antisemitism The Jewish people

Speaker

Shylock

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William Shakespeare

Source

The Merchant of Venice

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1598 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. c. 1598, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Merchant of Venice." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 1.

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