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If the heart of a man is depressed with cares,
The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.

John Gay

The Beggar's Opera

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Topic

New love Men and women

Speaker

Macheath

Author

John Gay

Source

The Beggar's Opera

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1728 1720s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gay, John. The Beggar's Opera. 1728, Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 1, air 21.

Current Citation

Gay, John. "The Beggar's Opera." The Beggar's Opera and Polly, edited by Hal Gladfelder. Oxford University Press, 2013, act 2, sc. 1, air 21.

The artist must have the patience of water that eats away the rock drop by drop.

Auguste Rodin

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Topic

Artistic process Patience Art

Speaker

Auguste Rodin

Source

Rodin: The Man and His Art, with Leaves from His Notebook

Genre

Biography

Language

French

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rodin, Auguste and S. K. Star. Rodin: The Man and His Art, with Leaves from His Notebook. Century, 1917, p. 7.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse... It is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.

Washington Irving

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Topic

Change New experiences

Author

Washington Irving

Language

English

Time

1824 1820s 19th century

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Citation

Irving, Washington. "To the Reader." Tales of a Traveller. London: John Murray/Philadelphia: H.C. Cary & I. Lee, 1824.

Though I grieve, there is no help;
Vainly I long to see her.
Men tell me that my wife is
In the mountains of Hagai-
Thither I go,
Toiling along the stony path;
But it avails me not,
For of my wife, as she lived in this world,
I find not the faintest shadow.

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

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Topic

Missing someone Losing a loved one Grief Loss

Author

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

Source

The Manyoshu

Medium

Poem

Language

Japanese

Time

759 750s 8th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Man'yōshū. Compiled by Otomo no Yakamochi. c. 759, bk. 2, poem 210-2.

Current Citation

Anonymous. 1000 Poems from the Manyoshu: The Complete Nippon Gakujutsu Shinko Translation, selected and translated by Iwanami Shoten. Dover Publications, 2005, bk. 2, poem 210-2.

There is no such thing as a human nature independent of culture.

Clifford Geertz

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Topic

Human nature Culture

Author

Clifford Geertz

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Geertz, Clifford. "The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man." The Monday Lectures. 1965, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

A trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

Wilson Mizner

On Hollywood.

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Topic

Hollywood

Speaker

Wilson Mizner

Source

The Legendary Mizners

Genre

Biography

Language

English

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mizner, Wilson. Quoted in The Legendary Mizners, written by Alva Johnston. Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953, ch. 4.

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Daniel Webster

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Topic

Rule of law Law Government Tyranny

Speaker

Daniel Webster

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1835 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Webster, Daniel. "Remarks Made at Reception." 25 Aug. 1835, Bangor, ME, USA.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

Joseph Beuys

Quoted in Artforum

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Topic

Teaching Art

Speaker

Joseph Beuys

Source

Artforum

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

German

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Beuys, Joseph. "An Interview with Joseph Beuys." Interviewed by Willoughby Sharp. Artforum, Dec. 1969.

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Topic

Stories

Author

Julian Barnes

Source

The Sense of an Ending

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

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

Don't let's be beastly to the Germans
When our Victory is ultimately won.

Noel Coward

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Topic

World War II Magnanimity in war

Speaker

Noel Coward

Medium

Song

Language

English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Coward, Noel. Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans. Warner Chappell Music, 1943.

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Chinatown

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Topic

Effects of time

Speaker

Noah Cross

Actor

John Huston

Source

Chinatown

Medium

Film

Genre

Neo-noir Mystery (film) Mystery

Language

English

Time

1974 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Chinatown. Directed by Roman Polanski, Long Road Productions/Robert Evans Company, 1974.

No matter how long you have been here, you are a New Yorker the first time you say, That used to be Munsey's, or That used to be the Tic Toc Lounge... You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

Colson Whitehead

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Topic

New York City

Author

Colson Whitehead

Source

The Colossus of New York

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Whitehead, Colson. The Colossus of New York. Doubleday, 2003, pt. 1.

No one in this world, so far as I know...has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

H.L. Mencken

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Topic

The masses

Author

H.L. Mencken

Source

Notes on Journalism Chicago Tribune

Medium

Article Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Mencken, Henry Louis. "Notes on Journalism." Chicago Tribune, 19 Sept. 1926.

Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to.

Gladiator

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Topic

Duty

Speaker

Cicero

Actor

Tommy Flanagan

Source

Gladiator

Medium

Film

Genre

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

Language

English

Time

2000 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Gladiator. Directed by Ridley Scott. DreamWorks Pictures/ Scott Free Productions/Universal Pictures/Red Wagon Entertainment, 2000.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Jack London

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Topic

Charity Sacrifice

Author

Jack London

Source

My Confession The Road

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 0

Original Citation

London, Jack. "My Confession." The Road. MacMillan & Company, 1907.

Current Citation

London, Jack. "My Confession." The Road. Dover Publications, 2016.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

R.D. Laing

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Topic

Genius and insanity Insanity Creativity Innovation Ideas

Author

R.D. Laing

Source

The Politics of Experience

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Laing, Ronald David. The Politics of Experience. Penguin Books, 1967, ch. 6.

Very few people spend other people's money as carefully as they spend their own.

Milton Friedman

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Topic

Moral hazard Government spending Economics Government Political theory

Author

Milton Friedman

Source

Open Mind

Medium

Interview TV program

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Open Mind. Interview with Milton Friedman. Hosted by Richard Heffner. The Open Mind Legacy Project. National Educational Telecommunications Association, PBS, 7 Dec. 1975, www.YouTube.com/watch?v=k2Kg2SvsI8Q

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Norman Douglas

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Topic

National character Advertising and marketing

Speaker

Bishop South Wind

Author

Norman Douglas

Source

South Wind

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Douglas, Norman. South Wind. Martin Secker, 1917, ch. 6.

It's no disgrace t'be poor, but it might as well be.

Frank McKinney Hubbard

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Topic

Poverty Dignity

Author

Frank McKinney Hubbard

Source

Short Furrows

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1911 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hubbard, Kin. "Short Furrows." News, c. 1911.

Autumn is quite beautiful here but all the same has a funereal air, like all beautiful autumns-something like a funereal relaxation of things.

Marcel Duchamp

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Topic

Autumn Death Seasons Nature

Speaker

Marcel Duchamp

Source

The Duchamp Dictionary

Genre

Biography

Language

English

Time

20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Grist, Thomas. The Duchamp Dictionary. Thames & Hudson, 2014, p. 70.