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If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don't care if we're completely insane.

Revolutionary Road

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Topic

Taking a different path Middle class respectability

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.

That's why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they'd call 'em something else.

Sixteen Candles

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Topic

Crush Infatuation Dangers of love

Speaker

Jim Baker

Actor

Paul Dooley

Source

Sixteen Candles

Medium

Film

Genre

Coming of age (film) Comedy (film) Coming of age Comedy

Language

English

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Sixteen Candles. Directed by John Hughes, Universal Pictures/Channel Productions, 1984.

As a white candle
In a holy place,
So is the beauty
Of an aged face.

Joseph Campbell (poet)

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Topic

Beauty and aging Old age

Author

Joseph Campbell (poet)

Source

The Old Woman

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Campbell, Joseph. "The Old Woman." Irishry. Maunsel & Company, 1913, st. 1.

The street of the city was pure gold.

Revelation 21:21

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Topic

Heaven

Source

Revelation The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

96 90s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Revelation 21:21).

The most important tool the artist fashions through constant practice is faith in his ability to produce miracles when they are needed.

Mark Rothko

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Topic

Artistic development Art

Speaker

Mark Rothko

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

20th century

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Citation

Rothko, Mark. Quoted in Mark Rothko, written by Jeffrey Weiss. Yale University Press, 2000.

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here for long.

Walker Evans

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Topic

Paying attention Shortness of life Observation Listening Seeking

Author

Walker Evans

Source

Many are Called

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Evans, Walker. Many are Called. Yale University Press, 2004, p. 197.

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.

Izaak Walton

The Compleat Angler

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Topic

Having fun

Author

Izaak Walton

Source

The Compleat Angler

Medium

Treatise

Language

English

Time

1653 1650s 17th century

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Original Citation

Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1653, pt. 1, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, edited by Marjorie Swann. Oxford University Press, 2014, pt. 1, ch. 5.

It strikes me that this may be one of the differences between youth and age: when we are young, we invent different futures for ourselves; when we are old, we invent different pasts for others.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Topic

Youth vs. old age Youth Old age

Author

Julian Barnes

Source

The Sense of an Ending

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

Man must work by the sweat of his brow whatever his class, and that should make up the whole meaning and purpose of his life and happiness and contentment.

Anton Chekhov

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Topic

Work Purpose of life

Speaker

Irina Sergeyevna Pozorova

Author

Anton Chekhov

Source

The Three Sisters

Medium

Play

Language

Russian

Time

1901 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Chekhov, Anton. Три сeстры́ [Three Sisters]. Directed by Knostatin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. 31 Jan. 1901, Moscow Art Theatre, Moscow, Russia, act 1.

Current Citation

Chekhov, Anton. "Three Sisters." Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull' Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard, translated by Peter Carson. Penguin Classics, 2002, act 1.

Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Umberto Eco

The Name of the Rose

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Topic

Fanaticism

Speaker

William

Author

Umberto Eco

Source

The Name of the Rose

Medium

Novel

Language

Italian

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Original Citation

Eco, Umberto. Il nome della rosa [The Name of the Rose]. Bompiani, 1980.

Current Citation

Eco, Humberto. The Name of the Rose, translated by William Weaver. HarperVia, 2014.

This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease.

Robert F. Kennedy

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Topic

Youthfulness

Speaker

Robert F. Kennedy

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Kennedy, Robert F. "Day of Affirmation." National Union of South African Students meeting. 6 June 1966, Jameson Hall, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa.

The culture of life means respect for nature and protection of God's work of creation. In a special way it means respect for human life from the first moment of conception until its natural end.

Pope John Paul II

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Topic

Abortion Capital punishment

Speaker

Pope John Paul II

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Pope John Paul II. Speech on the occasion of the eighth world youth day. Farewell ceremony. 15 Aug. 1993, International Airport of Denver, Denver, CO, USA.

Fairer skin has been in favor for the past, what, couple hundreds of years. But, now the pendulum has swung back. Black is in fashion!

Get Out

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Topic

Black is beautiful

Speaker

Parker Dray

Actor

Rutherford Cravens

Source

Get Out

Medium

Film

Genre

Horror (film) Horror

Language

English

Time

2017 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Get Out. Directed by Jordan Peele, Blumhouse Productions/QC Entertainment/Monkeypaw Productions, 2017.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Francis Bacon

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Topic

Travel

Author

Francis Bacon

Source

Of Travel Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Medium

Essay

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1625 1620s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Bacon, Francis "Of Travel." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

Current Citation

Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Travel." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

We never reach a point at which our lives lie before us as a clearly marked open road, never have and never should expect a map to the years ahead, never do close those circles that seem, at thirteen and fourteen and nineteen, so urgently in need of closing.

Joan Didion

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Topic

Nature of life The human condition

Author

Joan Didion

Source

Pacific Distances After Henry

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

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Original Citation

Didion, Joan. "Pacific Distances." After Henry. Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Current Citation

Didion, Joan. "Pacific Distances." Joan Didion: The 1980s & 90s, edited by David L. Ulin. Library of America, 2021.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the sufferings and joys of others.

Andre Gide

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Topic

Kindness Empathy

Author

Andre Gide

Language

French

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Gide, Andre. "Portraits and Aphorisms: An Unprejudiced Mind." Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality, edited by Justin O'Brien. Secker & Warburg/Meridian Books, 1959.

Let's win this one for all the small schools that never had a chance to get here.

Hoosiers

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Topic

David and Goliath Underdogs

Speaker

Merle

Actor

Kent Poole

Source

Hoosiers

Medium

Film

Genre

Sports (film) Drama (film) Sports Drama

Language

English

Time

1986 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Hoosiers. Directed by David Anspaugh, Hemdale Film Corporation/De Haven Productions, 1986.

The guilt of Stalin and his immediate entourage before the Party and the people for the mass repressions and lawlessness they committed is enormous and unforgivable.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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Topic

Stalin Soviet Union Cold War

Speaker

Mikhail Gorbachev

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

Russian

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Gorbachev, Mikhail. Speech on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. 2 Nov. 1987, Moscow, Russia.

Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

Noel Coward

Private Lives

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Topic

Gender relations Men and women Women

Speaker

Elyot Chase

Author

Noel Coward

Source

Private Lives

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play) Comedy of manners Comedy

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

Language

English

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Coward, Noël. Private Lives. Directed by Noël Coward. Performed by Noël Coward and Adrianne Allen and Gertrude Lawrence and Laurence Olivier. 1930, King's Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 3.

Current Citation

Coward, Noël. Private Lives. Methuen Drama, 2023, act 3.

Of all days, the one most surely wasted is the one on which one has not laughed.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Topic

Laughter

Author

Nicolas Chamfort

Source

Maximes et Pensées

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

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Citation

Chamfort, Nicolas. Maximes et Pensees. c. 1796, no. 48.