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Et tu, Brutè?

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar

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Topic

Betrayal

Speaker

Julius Caesar

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Julius Caesar

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play) Tragedy (play)

Statement Type

Question

Language

Latin

Time

1599 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, 1599, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 1.

Current Citation

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

When we are no longer able to change a situation... We are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

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Topic

Powerlessness Changing oneself Personal growth

Author

Viktor Frankl

Source

Man's Search for Meaning

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

German

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Original Citation

Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

Current Citation

Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

Henrik Ibsen

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Topic

Progress Moral theory

Author

Henrik Ibsen

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1882 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Ibsen, Henrik. Letter to Georg Brandes. 3 Jan. 1882.

Only the paranoid survive.

Andrew Grove

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Topic

Business competition Business

Author

Andrew Grove

Source

The New York Times

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Grove, Andrew. Quoted in "Ideas & Trends; The Chip on Intel's Shoulder." Written by John Markoff. The New York Times, 18 Dec. 1994, sec. 4, p. 6.

"We, the people." It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787 I was not included in that "We, the people." I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people."

Barbara Jordan

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Topic

Political progress American politics

Speaker

Barbara Jordan

Language

English

Time

1974 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Jordan, Barbara. Statement at Debate on Articles of Impeachment. U.S. House Judiciary Committee Impeachment Hearings. 25 July 1974, Washington, DC, USA.

Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers, who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial, and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commandments and walk humbly in His footsteps.

William McKinley

First Inaugural Address of William McKinley

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Topic

God and America

Speaker

William McKinley

Source

First Inaugural Address of William McKinley Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

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Citation

McKinley, William. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1897, Front of original Senate Wing, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Older men declare war. But it is youth who must fight and die.

Herbert Hoover

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Topic

Old vs. young War

Speaker

Herbert Hoover

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Hoover, Herbert. Address in Chicago. Republican National Convention. 27 June 1944, Chicago, IL, USA.

Dare them to censor you.

Ken Loach

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Topic

Resisting authority Censorship

Speaker

Ken Loach

Source

Vox

Medium

Interview

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

2017 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Loach, Ken. "'Dare Them to Censor You': Ken Loach Talks Art and Activism in I, Daniel Blake and Beyond." Interviewed by Alissa Wilkinson. Vox, 2017.

Those who are called upon to administer it must recognize as its leading principle the duty of shaping their measures so as to produce the greatest good to the greatest number.

William Henry Harrison

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison

On the U.S. Constitution.

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US Constitution Utilitarianism Moral theory Political theory

Speaker

William Henry Harrison

Source

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1841 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Harrison, William Henry. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1841, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Let us be proud that our system has produced and provided more freedom and more abundance, more widely shared, than any system in the history of the world.

Richard Nixon

Second Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon

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Topic

American pride America

Speaker

Richard Nixon

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Nixon, Richard. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1973, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

To learning & law, there's no greater foe than they that nothing know.

Robert Greene

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Topic

Idiocracy Ignorance

Author

Robert Greene

Source

Greene's Groatsworth of Wit

Language

English

Time

1592 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Greene, Robert. Greenes, Groats-worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance. London: William Wright, 1592.

They are in you and in me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence...they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines.

Richard Dawkins

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Topic

Genetics Biology

Author

Richard Dawkins

Source

The Selfish Gene

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. Oxford University Press, 1976, ch. 2.

As unto the bow the cord is,
So unto the man is woman,
Though she bends him, she obeys him,
Though she draws him, yet she follows,
Useless each without the other!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Song of Hiawatha

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Topic

Gender relations Men and women

Author

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Source

The Song of Hiawatha

Language

English

Time

1855 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855, pt. 10.

Current Citation

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Song of Hiawatha." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, pt. 10.

Why is it that if a man kills another man in battle, it's called heroic, yet if he kills a man in the heat of passion, it's called murder?

Wayne's World

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Topic

War Murder

Speaker

Glen

Actor

Ed O'Neill

Source

Wayne's World

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wayne's World. Directed by Penelope Spheeris, Paramount Pictures, 1992.

The Lord says in the gospel; "I am the Truth." He does not say "I am custom." Therefore, when the truth is made manifest, custom must give way to truth.

Libosus of Vaga

Quoted in On Baptism, Against the Donatists, by Augustine of Hippo

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Truth Custom and convention Moral absolutism Moral theory Morality

Speaker

Libosus of Vaga

Author

Augustine of Hippo

Source

On Baptism, Against the Donatists

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

400 400s 5th century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

Libosus of Vaga. Quoted in De Baptismo Contra Donatistas [On Baptism, Against the Donatists]. c. 400, bk. 3, ch. 6, sect. 9.

Politics, and the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.

Albert Camus

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Topic

Venality of politicians Politicians Politics

Author

Albert Camus

Source

Journals of Albert Camus

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Camus, Albert. Notebook entry. c. 1940.

Law school is for people who are boring and ugly and serious.

Legally Blonde

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Topic

Lawyers

Speaker

Elle's Father

Actor

James Read

Source

Legally Blonde

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Legally Blonde. Directed by Robert Luketic, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Marc Platt Productions, 2001.

I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Jesus

John 14:6

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Topic

Nature of Jesus Salvation Jesus

Speaker

Jesus

Source

Gospel of John The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

90 90s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (John 14:6).

One of the meanings of human existence, the source of human freedom, is never to accept anything as definitive, untouchable, obvious, or immobile.

Michel Foucault

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Topic

Dogma Doubt and skepticism Freedom

Speaker

Michel Foucault

Source

Power, Moral Values and the Intellectual History of the Present

Medium

Interview

Language

French

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Foucault, Michel. "Power, Moral Values, and the Intellectual." Interviewed and translated by Michael Bess. History of the Present, Spring 1988.

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile and cunning.

James Joyce

The Egoist

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Topic

Society and the individual Personal integrity Authenticity Self-expression Being true to oneself

Speaker

Stephen

Author

James Joyce

Source

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Egoist

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man." The Egoist. 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915. Serial.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch. 5.