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Get in the car. What are you worried about? If I wanted to kill you, you'd be dead already. Get in.

The Godfather

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Kidnapping

Speaker

Sollozzo

Actor

Al Lettieri

Source

The Godfather

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime (film) Crime

Language

English

Time

1972 1970s 20th century

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The Godfather. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Paramount Pictures/Alfran Productions, 1972.

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The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Women's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

Queen Victoria

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Women's rights

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Queen Victoria

Medium

Letter

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English

Time

1870 1870s 19th century

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Queen Victoria. Letter to Theodore Martin. 29 May 1870.

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Queen Victoria. Quoted in The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928, written by Elizabeth Crawford. Routledge, 2003.

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Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Falling in love Love

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

Virginibus Puerisque

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Virginibus Puerisque III: On Falling in Love." Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "On Falling in Love." Essays I: Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, edited by Robert-Louis Abrahamson. Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

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Where there is no law there is no transgression.

Apostle Paul

Romans 4:15

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Sin Biblical law Legal theory

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Apostle Paul

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Romans The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

56 50s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Romans 4:15).

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I'm with you on the free press. It's the newspapers I can't stand.

Tom Stoppard

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Freedom of the press Newspapers Media

Speaker

Ruth

Author

Tom Stoppard

Source

Night and Day

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play)

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

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Stoppard, Tom. Night and Day. 8 Nov. 1978, Phoenix Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1.

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Stoppard, Tom. Night and Day. Grove Press, 2018, act 1.

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The worth and value of a man is in his heart and his will; there lies his real honour. Valour is the strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays

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Inner strength Determination

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Michel de Montaigne

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Of Cannibals Essays

Medium

Essay

Language

French

Time

1580 1580s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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De Montaigne, Michel. "Des Cannibales [Of Cannibals]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "On the Cannibals." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism...The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Assimilation American identity American politics

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. Address to the Knights of Columbus. 12 Oct. 1915, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY, USA.

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When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

James Joyce

The Egoist

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Society and the individual Authenticity Self-expression

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James Joyce

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Egoist

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Modernist literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

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

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

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If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Woody Allen

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Existence of God God

Author

Woody Allen

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Magazine

Statement Type

Joke

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Allen, Woody. "Selections from the Allen Notebooks." New Yorker, 5 Nov. 1973.

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I think it was, "Blessed are the cheesemakers!"

Monty Python's Life of Brian

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Misunderstandings Beatitudes

Speaker

Spectator I

Actor

Charles McKeown

Source

Monty Python's Life of Brian

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

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Monty Python's Life of Brian. Directed by Terry Jones, Handmade Films/Python (Monty) Pictures, 1979.

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Progress may have been all right once, but it went on too long.

Ogden Nash

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Conservatism Progress

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Ogden Nash

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Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation is Beater Than Yours. The New Yorker

Medium

Poem Magazine

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

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Nash, Ogden. "Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation is Beater Than Yours." The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 1959.

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family-but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Willa Cather

Shadows on the Rock

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Value of friendship Friendship Friends Loneliness Exile

Speaker

Father Hector Saint-Cyr

Author

Willa Cather

Source

Shadows on the Rock

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1931 1930s 20th century

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Cather, Willa. Shadows on the Rock. Alfred A. Knopf, 1931, bk. 3, ch. 5.

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No graven images may be
Worshipped, except the currency.

Arthur Hugh Clough

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Love of money Money

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Arthur Hugh Clough

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

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Clough, Arthur Hugh. "The Latest Decalogue." Poems. Macmillan and Company, 1862, I. 3.

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The sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

C.F. Forbes

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Fashion Clothing

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C.F. Forbes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

Letters and Social Aims

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Essay

Language

English

Time

1875 1870s 19th century

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Forbes, C. F. Quoted in Letters and Social Aims, written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. James R. Osgood, 1875.

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Sometimes, the only way to catch an uncatchable woman is to offer her a wedding ring.

Big Fish

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Pursuing women Getting engaged Women

Speaker

Edward Bloom (Senior)

Actor

Albert Finney

Source

Big Fish

Medium

Film

Genre

Fantasy (film) Comedy drama (film) Fantasy Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Big Fish. Directed by Tim Burton, Columbia Pictures/Jinks/Cohen Company/The Zanuck Company, 2003.

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The war has used up words.

Henry James

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World War I Horrors of war War

Author

Henry James

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Henry James's First Interview The New York Times

Medium

Interview Newspaper

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English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

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James, Henry. "Henry James's First Interview," interviewed by Preston Lockwood. New York Times, 21 Mar. 1915

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Law is where you buy it in this town.

Raymond Chandler

Farewell, My Lovely

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Corruption Law

Speaker

Philip Marlowe

Author

Raymond Chandler

Source

Farewell, My Lovely

Medium

Novel

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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Chandler, Raymond. Farewell, My Lovely. Alfred A. Knopf, 1940, ch. 19.

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Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

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Dwelling on the past Making the most

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Kazuo Ishiguro

Source

The Remains of the Day

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. Faber & Faber, 1989.

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Better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait till it begins to abolish itself from below.

Czar Alexander II of Russia

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Serfdom Revolution Political theory Politics

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Czar Alexander II of Russia

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Speech

Language

Russian

Time

1856 1850s 19th century

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Czar Alexander II of Russia. Speech to Moscow Nobility. 30 Mar. 1856, Moscow, Russia.

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Czar Alexander II of Russia. Quoted in A Concise History of Russia, written by Ronald Hingley. Thames & Hudson, 1991.

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No man can be fully free while his neighbor is not. To go forward at all is to go forward together. This means black and white together, as one nation, not two. The laws have caught up with our conscience. What remains is to give life to what is in the law: to ensure at last that as all are born equal in dignity before God, all are born equal in dignity before man.

Richard Nixon

First Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon

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Interconnectedness of all people Civil rights Equality American politics

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Richard Nixon

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First Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

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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