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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Henry Fielding

Amelia

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Topic

Dying Fear of death Death

Speaker

Captain William Booth

Author

Henry Fielding

Source

Amelia

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1751 1750s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Fielding, Henry. Amelia. London: Andrew Millar, 1752, bk. 3, ch. 4.

Ours is a land rich in resources; stimulating in its glorious beauty; filled with millions of happy homes; blessed with comfort and opportunity. In no nation are the institutions of progress more advanced. In no nation are the fruits of accomplishment more secure. In no nation is the government more worthy of respect. No country is more loved by its people. I have an abiding faith in their capacity, integrity, and high purpose. I have no fears for the future of our country. It is bright with hope.

Herbert Hoover

Inaugural Address of Herbert Hoover

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American prosperity American pride

Speaker

Herbert Hoover

Source

Inaugural Address of Herbert Hoover Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Hoover, Herbert. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1929, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

G.K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy

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Topic

Logic Reason

Author

G.K. Chesterton

Source

Orthodoxy

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Chesterton, G.K. "Orthodoxy." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 1, Ignatius Press, 1986, ch. 4. Originally published in by John Lane Co., 1908.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown.

Elias Canetti

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Topic

The unknown Human nature

Author

Elias Canetti

Source

Crowds and Power

Genre

Political literature

Language

German

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Canetti, Elias. Masse und Macht [Mass and Power]. Claassen-Verlag, 1960.

As the traveller who has been once from home is wiser than he who has never left his own door step, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinise more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

Margaret Mead

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Topic

Effects of travel

Author

Margaret Mead

Source

Coming of Age in Samoa

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation. William Morrow and Co., 1928, introduction.

Current Citation

Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation. Mariner Books Classics, 2001, introduction.

We only want that which is given naturally to all peoples of the world, to be masters of our own fate, only of our fate, not of others, and in cooperation, and friendship with others.

Golda Meir

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Topic

Self-determination Israel

Speaker

Golda Meir

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Meir, Golda. Address to Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry meeting. 25 Mar. 1946.

New York: building itself up out of its own disintegration, its inevitable destiny as the city for everyone, energetic, tireless, brutal, murderous city of the entire world, where we all recognize ourselves and see our worst and our best.

Carlos Fuentes

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New York City

Author

Carlos Fuentes

Source

The Glass Border

Medium

Novel

Language

Spanish

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Fuentes, Carlos. La frontera de cristal [The Crystal Frontier]. Alfaguara, 1995, pt. 7, ch. 2.

Armaments, universal debt, and planned obsolescence—those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.

Aldous Huxley

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Topic

Modern economy

Speaker

Dr. Robert

Author

Aldous Huxley

Source

Island

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Huxley, Aldous. Island. Chatto & Windus/Harper and Brothers, 1962, ch. 9.

Make not your thoughts your prisons.

William Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra

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Topic

Controlling one's thoughts Thoughts Attitude and mindset

Speaker

Octavius Caesar

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Antony and Cleopatra

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Statement Type

Advice Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1607 1600s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Antony and Cleopatra. King's Men, c. 1607, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Antony and Cleopatra." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 3.

The negroes are now Americans. Their ancestors came here years ago against their will, and this is their only country and their only flag. They have shown themselves anxious to live for it and to die for it.

William Howard Taft

Inaugural Address of William Howard Taft

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Topic

Black Americans Americans

Speaker

William Howard Taft

Source

Inaugural Address of William Howard Taft Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Taft, William Howard. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1909, Senate Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Wheree'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade,
Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade:
Where'er you tread, the blushing flowers shall rise,
And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.

Alexander Pope

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Topic

Summer Seasons

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

Summer -- The Second Pastoral, or Alexis Poetical Miscellanies

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1709 1700s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Summer: The Second Pastoral, or Alexis." Poetical Miscellanies. London: Jacob Tonson, 1709, I. 73.

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Pastorals." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 73.

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 3

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Topic

Crying Grief

Speaker

Richard Plantagenet

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Henry VI, Part 3

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play)

Language

English

Time

1595 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Henry the Sixth, Part 3. London: Thomas Millington, 1595, act 2, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Third Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 1.

Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose a war. Because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans.

Patton

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Topic

Winning and losing Winning American character War World War II

Speaker

General George S. Patton

Actor

George C. Scott

Source

Patton

Medium

Film

Genre

Biography (film) War (film) Biography War

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Patton. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. 20th Century Fox, 1969.

The whole purpose of literature... Is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge on San Luis Rey

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Topic

Purpose of literature

Author

Thornton Wilder

Source

The Bridge on San Luis Rey

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.

Current Citation

Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Vintage, 2023.

Some of you think you have problems because you're against the war. You demonstrated in school, you wear peace symbols on your steel, and you have attitudes. I'm an orphan, my brother's queer, the city of Chicago got the clap from my sister, Mom drinks, Dad coughs blood, I have ringworm, immersion foot, the incurable crud and the draft ruined my chances of being a brain surgeon. People, you have no problem. Except me and him.

Hamburger Hill

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Topic

Vietnam War War

Speaker

Sgt. Adam Frantz

Actor

Dylan McDermott

Source

Hamburger Hill

Medium

Film

Genre

War (film) War

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hamburger Hill. Directed by John Irvin, RKO Pictures, 1987.

Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.

Melvin Kranzberg

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Topic

Technology

Author

Melvin Kranzberg

Source

Technology and History: Kranzberg's Laws Technology and Culture

Language

English

Time

1986 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Kranzberg, Melvin. "Technology and History: Kranzberg's Laws." Technology and Culture, vol. 27, no. 3, July 1986, pp. 544-560.

I saw old Autumn in the misty morn
Stand shadowless like Silence, listening
To silence.

Thomas Hood

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Topic

Autumn

Author

Thomas Hood

Source

Ode: Autumn

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1827 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hood, Thomas. "Ode: Autumn." The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, Hero and Leander, Lycus the Centaur and Other Poems. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green/Philadelphia: E. Littell, 1827.

Current Citation

Hood, Thomas. "Ode: Autumn." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

William Hazlitt

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Topic

Uniqueness of each person

Author

William Hazlitt

Source

Characteristics

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1823 1820s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hazlitt, William. Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims. London, 1823, no. 305.

People say the native stands on the edge of a chasm. It is not he who stands on the edge of a chasm; his claims are not false. They are just... Every step the Indian takes is based on a profound sense of fairness.

Louis Riel

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Topic

Native Americans

Author

Louis Riel

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

1885 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Riel, Louis. Diary entry. 6 May 1885.

Current Citation

Riel, Louis. The Diaries of Louis Riel, edited by Thomas Flanagan. Hurtig, 1976.

Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark; yet as sure he is he shall shoot higher than who aims but at a bush.

Philip Sidney

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Topic

Thinking big Goals

Author

Philip Sidney

Source

Arcadia

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1593 1590s 16th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Sidney, Philip. The New Arcadia. London, 1590.

Current Citation

Sidney, Philip. "The New Arcadia." Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works, edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones. Oxford University Press, 2009.