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Painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

Robert Rauschenberg

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Self-acceptance Art as therapy Painting Art

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Robert Rauschenberg

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

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Rauschenberg, Robert. "Everything in Sight: Robert Rauschenberg's New Life." Interviewed by Calvin Tompkins. The New Yorker, 23 May 2005, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/05/23/everything-in-sight.

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The release of atomic energy constitutes a new force too revolutionary to consider in the framework of old ideas.

Harry Truman

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Nuclear weapons

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Harry Truman

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English

Time

1945 1940s 20th century

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Truman, Harry S. Message to Congress on atomic energy. 3 Oct. 1945, Washington, DC, USA.

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The mind is like a muscle, okay, and if you want it to be really powerful, you got to work it out. Ok? Each new fact gives you another choice. Each new idea builds another muscle, okay, and it’s those muscles that are going to make you really strong. Those are your weapons and in this unsafe world, I want to arm you...Look, okay, if at the end of the term, you’re not faster, stronger, and smarter, you will have lost nothing. But if you are, you’ll be that much tougher to knock down.

Dangerous Minds

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Knowledge is power Knowledge Learning

Speaker

Louanne Johnson

Actor

Michelle Pfeiffer

Source

Dangerous Minds

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Film

Genre

Drama (film) Teen (film) Drama Teen

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English

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

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Dangerous Minds. Directed by John N. Smith, Hollywood Pictures, 1995.

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The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

John Ruskin

Modern Painters

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Lying

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John Ruskin

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Modern Painters

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English

Time

1860 1860s 19th century

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Ruskin, John. Modern Painters. Vol. 5, London: Smith, Elder & Company, 1860, pt. 9, ch. 7, sect. 14.

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Ruskin, John. Modern Painters 5. The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 7, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pt. 9, ch. 7, sect. 14.

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Thou shalt not kill.

God

Exodus 20:13

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Murder The Ten Commandments

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God

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Exodus The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Orders and commands

Language

Hebrew

Time

1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC

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Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Exodus 20:13).

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We have no disposition and we disclaim all right to meddle in disputes, whether internal or foreign, that may molest other countries, regarding them in their actual state as social communities, and preserving a strict neutrality in all their controversies.

Martin Van Buren

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Non-intervention Isolationism American foreign policy

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Martin Van Buren

Source

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Political speech

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Van Buren, Martin. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1837, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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It's better to burn out
Than to fade away.

Neil Young

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My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)

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Dying young Leaving a mark Legacy

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Neil Young

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My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)

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Song

Genre

Rock music

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

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Young, Neil and Jeff Blackburn. "My, My, Hey, Hey (Out of the Blue)." Performed by Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Rust Never Sleeps. Reprise Records, 1979.

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If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.

Louis Brandeis

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Reason

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Louis Brandeis

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Jay Burns Baking Co. vs. Bryan

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Dissenting opinion Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

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Brandeis, Louis. Dissenting Opinion. Jay Burns Baking Co. v. Bryan. United States Reports, vol. 264, 14 Apr. 1924, pp. 517-534. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/264/504/.

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

The Wizard of Oz

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Courage Cowardice

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The Wizard of Oz

Actor

Frank Morgan

Source

The Wizard of Oz

Medium

Film

Genre

Fantasy (film) Musical (film) Fantasy Musical

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

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The Wizard of Oz. Directed by Victor Fleming. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

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In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above.

Virginia Woolf

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Gender roles Gender

Author

Virginia Woolf

Source

Orlando

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Woolf, Virginia. Orlando: A Biography. Hogarth Press, 1928, ch. 4.

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Woolf, Virginia. Orlando. Penguin Classics, 2019, ch. 4.

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I believe that involuntary servitude, as it exists in different States of this Confederacy, is recognized by the Constitution. I believe that it stands like any other admitted right, and that the States where it exists are entitled to efficient remedies to enforce the constitutional provisions.

Franklin Pierce

Inaugural Address of Franklin Pierce

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Pre-Civil War conflict Slavery American politics

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Franklin Pierce

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Inaugural Address of Franklin Pierce Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Political speech

Language

English

Time

1853 1850s 19th century

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Pierce, Franklin. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1853, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Carl Jung

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The mind Right and wrong The human condition

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Carl Jung

Source

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

German

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Jung, Carl and Aniela Jaffé. Erinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken [Memories, Dreams, Reflections], translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Exlibris, 1962.

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The fundamentals of our economy are strong.

John McCain

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2008 Financial Crisis

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John McCain

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Interview

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English

Time

2008 2000s 21st century

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McCain, John. Spoken during campaign trail in Jacksonville, FL. 15 Sept. 2008, Jacksonville, FL, USA.

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The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you they are not big enough.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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Thinking big Goals Dreams

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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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2011 Harvard commencement address

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Speech

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Commencement address

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English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Sirleaf, Ellen Johnson. Commencement speech. Commencement cermony. 26 May 2011, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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The illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Clement Attlee

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On Russian communism.

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Russian communism Communism

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Clement Attlee

Source

The Times of London

Medium

Speech Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Attlee, Clement. Speech at Aarhus University. 11 Apr. 1956, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

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In the heat of action men are likely to forget where their best interests lie and let their emotions carry them away.

The Maltese Falcon

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Emotions

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Kasper Gutman

Actor

Sydney Greenstreet

Source

The Maltese Falcon

Medium

Film

Genre

Film noir Crime (film) Crime

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

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The Maltese Falcon. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros., 1941.

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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

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Culture Reading Books

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Ray Bradbury

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Seattle Times

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Interview Newspaper

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English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Bradbury, Ray. "Bradbury Still Believes In Heat of 'Fahrenheit 451.'" Interviewed by Misha Berson. The New York Times, 12 Mar. 1993.

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Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.

George Chapman

All Fools

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Youth vs. old age

Speaker

Gostanzo

Author

George Chapman

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All Fools

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1605 1600s 17th century

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Chapman, George. "All Fools." Children of the Queen's Revels, 1605, Court before King James I, England, UK, act 5, sc. 2.

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Chapman, George. "All Fools." Elizabethan Comedies: A Basic Anthology. Dover Publications, 2017, act 5, sc. 2.

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A woman's friendship ever ends in love.

John Gay

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Friendship between men and women Men and women

Author

John Gay

Source

Dione

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1720 1720s 18th century

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Gay, John. "Dione." Poems on Several Occasions. London: J. Roberts, 1720, act 4, sc. 6.

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Like love we don't know where or why
Like love can't compel or fly
Like love we often weep
Like love we seldom keep

W.H. Auden

Law like Love

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Nature of love Love

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W.H. Auden

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Law like Love

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

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Auden, W. H. "Law, say the gardeners, is the sun." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940.

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