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If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

O. Henry

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Topic

Women Men and women

Author

O. Henry

Source

Memoirs of a Yellow Dog

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1906 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

O. Henry. "Memoirs of a Yellow Dog." The Four Million: A Collection of Short Stories. McClure, Phillips & Co., 1906.

Oh, love is the crooked thing,
There is nobody wise enough
To find out all that is in it,
For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.

W.B. Yeats

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Topic

Nature of love Love

Author

W.B. Yeats

Source

The Young Man's Song

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "Brown Penny." The Green Helmet and Other Poems. The Cuala Press, 1910.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "Brown Penny." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

I do really take it for an indisputable truth, and a truth that is one of the corner stones of political science—the more strictly we are watched, the better we behave.

Jeremy Bentham

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Topic

Surveillance Political theory Politics

Author

Jeremy Bentham

Source

Farming Defended

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1797 1790s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Bentham, Jeremy. Farming Defended. 1797.

Current Citation

Bentham, Jeremy. The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Writings on the Poor Laws, edited by Michael Quinn. Vol. 1, Clarendon Press, 2001, app. 2.

It's disgusting the way they splash this stuff all over the newspapers! What is journalism coming to? You're laying on top of the queen with her legs wrapped around you and they call that news. They can't kick you off the force, Frank! It's just not fair!

Naked Gun

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Topic

Newspapers Media Media criticism

Speaker

Capt. Ed Hocken

Actor

George Kennedy

Source

Naked Gun

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime comedy (film) Comedy (film) Crime comedy Comedy

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1988 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad. Directed by David Zucker, Paramount Pictures, 1988.

If anyone believes that our smiles involve abandonment of the teaching of Marx, Engels and Lenin he deceives himself. Those who wait for that must wait until a shrimp learns to whistle.

Nikita Khrushchev

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Topic

Soviet Union Marxism Cold War

Speaker

Nikita Khrushchev

Language

Russian

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Khrushchev, Nikita. Quoted in New York Times. 18 Sept. 1955. Originally an impromptu speech at a dinner for visiting West German dignitaries. 17 Sept. 1955, Moscow, Russia.

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgement or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Lochner v. New York

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Topic

Legal theory

Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Source

Lochner v. New York

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Dissenting opinion Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1905 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Dissenting Opinion. Lochner v. New York. United States Reports, vol. 198, 17 Apr. 1905, pp. 74-76. Justia, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/198/45/.

The plate that a peasant eats his soup out of is more interesting to me than the ridiculously rich plates of rich people.

Joan Miró

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Topic

Peasants

Speaker

Joan Miró

Source

I Work Like a Gardener Joan Mirό: Selected Writings and Interviews

Medium

Interview

Language

Spanish

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Miró, Joan. Interviewed by Yvon Taillandier. 1958.

But time...how time first grounds us and then confounds us. We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them. Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Topic

Effects of time

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.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Tennessee Williams

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Topic

The human condition

Speaker

Gypsy

Author

Tennessee Williams

Source

Camino Real

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play)

Language

English

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Williams, Tennessee. Camino Real. New Directions, 1953, block 12.

The last time I saw Paris
Her heart was warm and gay,
I heard the laughter of her heart in ev'ry street cafe.

Oscar Hammerstein II

The Last Time I Saw Paris

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Topic

Paris

Author

Oscar Hammerstein II

Source

The Last Time I Saw Paris

Medium

Song

Genre

Great American songbook

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

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Citation

"The Last Time I Saw Paris." Lady Be Good. Directed by Norman Z. McLeod, performed by Ann Sothern. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1941.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.

William S. Burroughs

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Topic

Alcohol

Author

William S. Burroughs

Source

Naked Lunch

Medium

Novel

Genre

Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Burroughs, William Seward. The Naked Lunch. Olympia Press/Grove Press, 1959, appendix.

That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third.
Were axioms to him, who'd never heard
Of any world where promises were kept,
Or one could weep because another wept.

W.H. Auden

The Shield of Achilles

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Topic

Violence Brutality

Author

W.H. Auden

Source

The Shield of Achilles

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1952 19502s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Auden, W. H. "The Shield of Achilles." The Shield of Achilles. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1955. Originally published in Poetry, Oct. 1952.

The highest sacrifice is a broken and contrite heart; the highest wisdom is that which is found in the Torah; the noblest of all ornaments is modesty; and the most beautiful thing that man can do, is to forgive a wrong.

Eleazar of Worms

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Topic

Remorse Forgiveness Modesty

Author

Eleazar of Worms

Source

Book of the Perfumer

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

1200 1200s 13th century

Era

Middle Ages

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Eleazar of Worms. Sefer ha rokeah. c. 1200

The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it... If you do manage to use it successfully for social, religious, or other purposes, it is because you make it art first.

Flannery O'Connor

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Topic

Novels

Author

Flannery O'Connor

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Citation

O'Connor, Flannery. Letter to Father John McCown. 9 May 1956.

The only way to be new is constantly to change yourself, and the only way to be original is to increase, enlarge, deepen your own personality.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Topic

Creativity Originality Self-improvement Personal growth

Author

W. Somerset Maugham

Source

Journals of W. Somerset Maugham

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Maugham, William Somerset. A Writer's Notebook. Greenwood Press, 1970.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

E.B. White

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Topic

Nature of democracy Democracy

Author

E.B. White

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Magazine

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

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Citation

White, E. B. "The Meaning of Democracy." The New Yorker, 3 July 1943.

The main thing about money, Bud, is makes you do things you don't want to do.

Wall Street

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Topic

Power of money Money

Speaker

Lou Mannheim

Actor

Hal Holbrook

Source

Wall Street

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Wall Street. Directed by Oliver Stone, American Entertainment Partners/American Films, 1987.

What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!-and you, Garcia Lorca what were you doing down by the watermelons?

Allen Ginsberg

A Supermarket in California

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Topic

Consumerism American life

Author

Allen Ginsberg

Source

A Supermarket in California

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Ginsberg, Allen. "A Supermarket in California." Howl and Other Poems. City Lights Books, 1956.

But you're wrong if you think the joy of life comes principally from human relationships. God's placed it all around us. It's in everything, in anything we can experience. People just need to change the way they look at those things.

Chris McCandless

Into the Wild

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Topic

Happiness

Speaker

Chris McCandless

Actor

Emile Hirsch

Source

Into the Wild

Medium

Film

Genre

Biography (film) Adventure drama (film) Biography Adventure drama

Language

English

Time

2007 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Into the Wild. Directed by Sean Penn, Paramount Vantage/River Road Entertainment/Square One C.I.H./Linson Film, 2007.

Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak.

William Shakespeare

As You Like It

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Topic

Nature of women

Speaker

Rosalind

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

As You Like It

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "As You Like It." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.