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The privileges of American citizenship are so great and its duties so grave that we may well insist upon a good knowledge of every person applying for citizenship and a good knowledge by him of our institutions. We should not cease to be hospitable to immigration, but we should cease to be careless as to the character of it.

Benjamin Harrison

Inaugural Address of Benjamin Harrison

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Citizenship Immigration Civic duty

Speaker

Benjamin Harrison

Source

Inaugural Address of Benjamin Harrison Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1889 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Harrison, Benjamin. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1889, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Pornography is the theory, and rape the practice.

Robin Morgan

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Topic

Pornography Rape Oppression of women Feminist theory

Author

Robin Morgan

Source

Going Too Far

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Morgan, Robin. Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist. Random House, 1977, ch. 4, sec. 2.

You see if you ask me we're heterosexual by default, not by decision. It's just a question of who you fancy. It's all about aesthetics and it's fuck all to do with morality.

Trainspotting

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Topic

Sexuality

Speaker

Mark Renton

Actor

Ewan McGregor

Source

Trainspotting

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy drama (film) Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Trainspotting. Directed by Danny Boyle, Channel Four Films/Figment Films/Noel Gay Motion Picture Company, 1996.

A known liar should be outlawed in a well-ordered government.

George Savile, Lord Halifax

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Topic

Politics and lies Liars Political theory Politics

Author

George Savile, Lord Halifax

Source

A Character of King Charles II

Language

English

Time

1750 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Citation

Savile, George. "Miscellaneous: Lying." A Character of King Charles The Second and Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750.

If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason-for then we would know the mind of God.

Stephen Hawking

A Brief History of Time

On the question of why the universe exists.

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Topic

Origin of the universe The universe Physics

Author

Stephen Hawking

Source

A Brief History of Time

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1988 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Hawking, Steven. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes. Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 1988, conclusion.

I saw a whole other future. I can't stop seeing it.

Revolutionary Road

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Breaking up Broken relationships

Speaker

April Wheeler

Actor

Kate Winslet

Source

Revolutionary Road

Genre

Romantic drama (film) Romantic drama

Language

English

Time

2008 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Revolutionary Road. Directed by Sam Mendes, DreamWorks Pictures/Paramount Vantage/BBC Films/Neal Street Productions/Evamere Entertainment, 2008.

And what most people don't see is just how hard it is to do the right thing.

Magnolia

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Doing the right thing

Speaker

Officer Jim Kurring

Actor

John C. Reilly

Source

Magnolia

Medium

Film

Genre

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

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Citation

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

Writing saved my life.

Slavoj Zizek

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Writing as therapy Writing

Author

Slavoj Zizek

Source

The Guardian

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

2016 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Žižek, Slavoj. "This Much I Know." Guardian, 10 Dec. 2016, www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/10/slavoj-zizek-we-are-all-basically-evil-egotistical-disgusting.

Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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Power of words Power of literature Literature Writing

Author

Jhumpa Lahiri

Source

The New York Times

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

2012 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lahiri, Jhumpa. "My Life's Sentences." Opinionator (blog). New York Times, 17 Mar. 2012, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/17/my-lifes-sentences.

Education makes us what we are.

Claude Adrien Helvétius

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Effects of education Education

Author

Claude Adrien Helvétius

Source

De l'esprit

Medium

Essay

Language

French

Time

1758 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Helvétius, Claude-Adrien. De l'esprit [On the Mind]. Paris: Durand, 1758, essay 3, ch. 30.

Only one being is wanting, and your whole world is bereft of people.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Les Meditations Poetiques

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Topic

Mourning Grief

Author

Alphonse de Lamartine

Source

L'Isolement Les Meditations Poetiques

Medium

Poem

Language

French

Time

1820 1820s 19th century

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Citation

De Lamartine, Alphonse. "L'Isolement [Isolation]." Recueillements poétiques [Poetic Meditations]. Paris: Imp P. Didot L'aine, 1820.

To one who has been long in city pent,
'Tis very sweet to look into the fair
And open face of heaven.

John Keats

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Topic

The sky Spending time in nature Getting away

Author

John Keats

Source

To one who has been long in city pent Poems

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1817 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

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Keats, John. "To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent." Poems. London: C. & J. Ollier, 1817, I. 1.

Current Citation

Keats, John. "To one who has been long in city pent." John Keats: The Major Works, edited by Elizabeth Cook. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 1.

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

Harry Truman

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Marshall Plan World War II

Author

Harry Truman

Source

Years of Trial and Hope

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Truman, Harry S. Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: 1946-52, Years of Trial and Hope. Vol. 2, Doubleday & Company, 1955, ch. 8.

The basic stimulus to the intelligence is doubt, a feeling that the meaning of an experience is not self-evident.

W.H. Auden

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Topic

Doubt and skepticism

Author

W.H. Auden

Source

The Protestant Mystics Forewords and Afterwords

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Auden, W. H. "The Protestant Mystics." Forewords and Afterwords. Random House/Faber and Faber, 1973.

If you're afraid of dying, shows you have a life worth keeping.

The Last King of Scotland

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Topic

Fear of death Life and death Life Death

Speaker

Dr. Nicholas Garrigan

Actor

James McAvoy 

Source

The Last King of Scotland

Medium

Film

Genre

Historical drama (film) Drama (film) Historical drama Drama

Language

English

Time

2006 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Last King of Scotland. Directed by Kevin Macdonald, DNA Films, FilmFour, TATfilm Produktion, 2006.

Art, it is said, is not a mirror, but a hammer: it does not reflect, it shapes.

Leon Trotsky

Literature and Revolution

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Effects of art Art

Author

Leon Trotsky

Source

Literature and Revolution

Genre

Political literature

Language

Russian

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Trotsky, Leon. Литература и революция [Literature and Revolution]. Soviet Government, 1924.

Current Citation

Trotsky, Leon. Literature and Revolution, edited by William Keach. Haymarket Books, 2005.

Love's pleasure lasts but a moment;
Love's sorrow lasts all through life.

Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

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Topic

Complexities of love Sex Dangers of love Love

Author

Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian

Source

Celestine

Medium

Poem

Language

French

Time

1784 1780s 18th century

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Citation

De Florian, Jean-Pierre Claris. Celestine. 1784.

Life is a game... And you keep score with dollars.

Ted Turner

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Money Nature of life Life

Speaker

Ted Turner

Source

Playboy Magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Turner, Ted. "Playboy Interview: Ted Turner." Interviewed by Peter Ross Range. Playboy Magazine, Aug. 1978.

We have squandered a great part of what we might have used, and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of nature, without which our genius for enterprise would have been worthless and impotent.

Woodrow Wilson

First Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson

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Environmental destruction

Speaker

Woodrow Wilson

Source

First Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

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Citation

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

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.

Lester Bangs

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Artist and audience Audience

Author

Lester Bangs

Source

Village Voice

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bangs, Lester. "How Long Will We Care?" The Village Voice, 29 Aug. 1977.