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It's such a perfect day
I'm glad I spent it with you
Oh, such a perfect day
You just keep me hanging on.

Lou Reed

Perfect Day

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Topic

Contentment

Speaker

Lou Reed

Source

Perfect Day Transformer

Medium

Song

Genre

Pop music

Language

English

Time

1972 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Reed, Lou. "Perfect Day." Transformer. RCA Records, 1972.

What little girls learn is not the desire for the other, but the desire to be desired.

Naomi Wolf

The Beauty Myth

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Topic

Patriarchy

Author

Naomi Wolf

Source

The Beauty Myth

Genre

Sociology

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women. Chatto & Windus, 1990.

To recognise that the soul of a man is unknowable, is the ultimate achievement of wisdom. The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

Oscar Wilde

De Profundis

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Topic

Inner life The mysterious

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

De Profundis

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wilde, Oscar. Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas. Jan.-Mar. 1897.

People are not always what they seem.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Nathan the Wise

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Topic

Appearance vs. reality

Speaker

Daya

Author

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Source

Nathan the Wise

Medium

Play

Language

German

Time

1783 1780s 18th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. Nathan der Weise [Nathan the Wise]. 14 Apr. 1783, Dobbelinsches Theatre, Berlin, Germany, act 1, sc. 6.

Current Citation

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. Nathan the Wise, translated by William Taylor. Dover Publications, 2015, act 1, sc. 6.

If we should ever get to Heaven, we shall find nobody to reproach us for being black, or being slaves.

Jupiter Hammon

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Topic

Black experience

Speaker

Jupiter Hammon

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1786 1780s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hammon, Jupiter. "An Address to the Negroes in the State of New York." 24 Sept. 1786, New York, NY, USA.

There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventure of the Naval Treaty

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Topic

Flowers Beauty of nature Nature of God

Speaker

Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

The Adventure of the Naval Treaty

Medium

Short story Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty." The Strand Magazine. London, 1893.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Naval Treaty." The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2023.

I could have danced all night
And still have begged for more.
I could have spread my wings
And done a thousand things
I've never done before.

Eliza Doolittle

I Could Have Danced All Night

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Topic

Being in love

Speaker

Eliza Doolittle

Source

I Could Have Danced All Night My Fair Lady

Medium

Song Musical

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lerner, Alan Jay. "I Could Have Danced All Night." My Fair Lady. Composed by Frederick Loewe. 15 Mar. 1956, Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.

The sons of torture-victims make good terrorists.

Andre Malraux

Man's Fate

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Topic

Torture Terrorism Cycle of violence

Speaker

Suan

Author

Andre Malraux

Source

Man's Fate

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Malraux, Andre. La Condition humaine [The Human Condition]. Librairie Gallimard, 1933, pt. 4.

Current Citation

Malraux, Andre. Man's Fate. Penguin Books, 2009, pt. 4.

A lie keeps growing and growing, until it's as plain as the nose on your face.

Pinocchio

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Topic

Lies

Speaker

The Blue Fairy

Actor

Evelyn Venable

Source

Pinocchio

Medium

Film

Genre

Animation (film) Musical (film) Animation Musical

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Pinocchio. Directed by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton Luske, Walt Disney Productions, 1940.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

John A. Shedd

Salt from My Attic

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Topic

Taking risks

Author

John A. Shedd

Source

Salt from My Attic

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Shedd, John A. Salt from My Attic. Mosher Press, 1928.

You will laugh when you learn that I thought nothing of deceiving idiots, scoundrels and fools when I needed to do so. As for my deceptions of women, these are not of the sort to be tallied, since when love has a hand in things, each party usually dupes the other.

Giacomo Casanova

Histoire de Ma Vie

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Topic

Men and women Deception

Author

Giacomo Casanova

Source

Histoire de Ma Vie

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

French

Time

1791 1790s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Casanova, Giacomo. Aus den Memoiren des Venetianers Jacob Casanova de Seingalt [From the Memoirs of the Venetian Jacob Casanova de Seingalt]. Vol. 1, Leipzig: Brodhaus, 1822, preface.

Current Citation

Casanova, Giacomo. History of My Life, vols. 1-2, translated by Willard R. Trask. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

Italo Calvino

Invisible Cities

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Topic

Cities

Author

Italo Calvino

Source

Invisible Cities

Medium

Novel

Language

Italian

Time

1972 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Calvino, Italo. Le citta invisibili [Invisible Cities]. Giulio Einaudi, 1972.

Of all sexual aberrations perhaps the most curious is chastity.

Remy de Gourmont

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Topic

Chastity

Author

Remy de Gourmont

Source

The Natural Philosophy of Love

Language

French

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

De Gourmont, Remy. Physique de l'Amor: Essai Sur l'Instinct Sexuel [Physics of Love - Essay on Sexual Instinct]. Mercure de France, 1903, ch. 18.

Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. And why wouldn't they be? They know best two positions. Somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.

Florynce Kennedy

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Topic

Consequences of oppression Oppressor and oppressed

Author

Florynce Kennedy

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Kennedy, Florynce. "Institutionalized Oppression vs. the Female." Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings From The Women’s Liberation Movement, edited by Robin Morgan. Vintage Books, 1970.

A service beyond all recompense
Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense.

Pierre Corneille

Surena

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Topic

Favors

Speaker

Orode

Author

Pierre Corneille

Source

Surena

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play) Tragedy

Language

French

Time

1674 1670s 17th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Corneille, Pierre. Surena. 1674, act 3, sc. 2.

I saw soda pop for $1.20 a six pack, and that price fucks with your head, because then you start to think that you're gonna sell pop.

Mitch Hedberg

Strategic Grill Locations

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Topic

Entrepreneurship

Speaker

Mitch Hedberg

Source

Strategic Grill Locations

Medium

Comedy album

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hedberg, Mitch. Strategic Grill Locations. 7 Sept. 1999, The Laff Stop Comedy Club, Houston, Texas, USA.

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Walter Benjamin

One Way Street

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Topic

Self-knowledge Happiness

Author

Walter Benjamin

Source

One Way Street

Language

German

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Benjamin, Walter. Einbahnstraße [One Way Street]. Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, 1928.

Current Citation

Benjamin, Walter. One-Way Street, translated by Edmund Jephcott, edited by Michael W. Jennings. Belknap Press, 2016.

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and all are precious in God's sight. America is not like a blanket, one piece of unbroken cloth-the same color, the same texture, the same size. It is more like a quilt-many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.

Jesse Jackson

Address to Democratic National Convention, 1988

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Topic

American diversity America

Speaker

Jesse Jackson

Source

Address to Democratic National Convention, 1988

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jackson, Jesse. Address in San Francisco. Democratic National Convention. 17 July 1984, San Francisco, CA, USA.

God bless America,
Land that I love,
Stand beside her and guide her
Through the night with a light from above.

From the mountains to the prairies,
To the oceans white with foam,
God bless America,
My home sweet home.

Irving Berlin

God Bless America

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Topic

America

Author

Irving Berlin

Source

God Bless America

Medium

Song

Genre

Great American songbook

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Berlin, Irving. God Bless America. Irving Berlin Inc., 1939.

Winning isn’t everything...It’s the only thing.

Henry R. "Red" Sanders

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Topic

Winning

Speaker

Henry R. "Red" Sanders

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Sanders, Henry R. Quoted in L.A. Times. 18 Oct. 1950. Originally spoken to the Quarterback Club. Luncheon. 1948, Tutwiler Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.