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My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
Chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

Robert Burns

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Topic

Scottish highlands Scotland Countries

Author

Robert Burns

Source

My Heart's in the Highlands

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1789 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Burns, Robert. My Heart's in the Highlands. 1789.

Current Citation

Burns, Robert. "Farewell to the Highlands (My Heart's in the Highlands)." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994.

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.

H.L. Mencken

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Topic

Solving problems

Author

H.L. Mencken

Source

The Divine Afflatus New York Evening Mail

Medium

Essay Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mencken, Henry Louis. "The Divine Afflatus." H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010. Originally published by New York Evening Mail, 16 Nov. 1917.

Off we go into the wild blue yonder,
Climbing high into the sun.

Robert MacArthur Crawford

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Topic

Flying

Author

Robert MacArthur Crawford

Source

The Air Force Song

Medium

Song

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Crawford, Robert. The U.S. Air Force. 1947.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

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Topic

Friendship

Author

Henry Adams

Source

The Education of Henry Adams

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 20.

Current Citation

Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 20.

If there's one thing the history of evolution has taught us, it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories, and crashes through barriers painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh, well, there it is.

Jurassic Park

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Topic

Evolution

Speaker

Malcolm

Actor

Jeff Goldblum

Source

Jurassic Park

Medium

Film

Genre

Science fiction (film) Action (film) Science fiction Action

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Jurassic Park. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment, 1993.

Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten?

George Saunders

Lincoln in the Bardo

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Topic

Wasted life

Author

George Saunders

Source

Lincoln in the Bardo

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2017 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Saunders, George. Lincoln in the Bardo. Random House, 2017.

Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.

Superman

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Topic

Reading Perception

Speaker

Lex Luthor

Actor

Gene Hackman

Source

Superman

Medium

Film

Genre

Superhero (film) Superhero

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Superman: The Movie. Directed by Richard Donner, Dovemead Films, 1978.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Robert Frost

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Topic

God and man Forgiveness

Author

Robert Frost

Source

Cluster of Faith In the Clearing

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Frost, Robert. "Cluster of Faith." In the Clearing. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962, poem 5.

All kings, and all their favourites,
All glory of honours, beauties, wits,
The sun itself, which makes times as they pass,
Is elder by a year, now, than it was
When thou and I first one another saw.
All other things to their destruction draw;
Only our love hath no decay;
This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday;
Running it never runs from us away,
But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

John Donne

Songs and Sonnets

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Topic

Undying love

Author

John Donne

Source

The Anniversary Songs and Sonnets

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1631 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Donne, John. "The Anniversary." Songs and Sonnets. London, 1633, st. 1, I. 1.

Current Citation

Donne, John. "The Anniversary." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, st. 1, I. 1.

Listen, punk. To me you're nothin' but dogshit, you understand? And a lot of things can happen to dogshit. It can be scraped up with a shovel off the ground. It can dry up and blow away in the wind. Or it can be stepped on and squashed. So take my advice and be careful with a dog shits ya!

Sudden Impact

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Speaker

Harry Callahan

Actor

Clint Eastwood

Source

Sudden Impact

Medium

Film

Genre

Action (film) Thriller (film) Action Thriller

Statement Type

Threat

Language

English

Time

1983 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Sudden Impact. Directed by Clint Eastwood, Warner Bros., 1983.

On all plausible theories, everyone’s well-being consists at least in part in being happy, and avoiding suffering.

Derek Parfit

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Topic

Moral theory Happiness Suffering

Author

Derek Parfit

Source

On What Matters

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Parfit, Derek. Reasons and Persons. Oxford University Press, 1984.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

William Hazlitt

On Prejudice

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Topic

Overthinking

Author

William Hazlitt

Source

On Prejudice

Language

English

Time

1839 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Hazlitt, William. "On Prejudice." Sketches and Essays. London: John Templeman, 1839.

There seems to be a general overall pattern in most lives, that nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then all of a sudden everything happens.

Fay Weldon

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Topic

Inflection points

Author

Fay Weldon

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo, 2002.

The "one" that I am is composed of narratives that overlap, run parallel to, and often contradict each other.

Glenn Ligon

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Topic

Personal identity Contradiction

Author

Glenn Ligon

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Ligon, Glenn. Yourself in the World: Selected Writings and Interviews, edited by Scott Rothkopf. Yale University Press, 2011.

Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure-wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.

Sinclair Lewis

Main Street

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Topic

Man and nature The human condition

Speaker

Guy Pollock

Author

Sinclair Lewis

Source

Main Street

Medium

Novel

Genre

Satire

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Main Street. Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920, ch. 13.

Current Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. "Main Street." Sinclair Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt, edited by John Hersey. Library of America, 1992, ch. 13.

The season of ships is here,
The west wind and the swallows;
Flowers in the fields appear,
And the ocean of hills and hollows
Has calmed its waves and is clear.
Free that anchor and chain!
Set your full canvas flying,
O men in the harbor lane:
It is I, Pirapus crying.
Sail out on your trades again!

Leonidas of Tarentum

Spring on the Coast

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Topic

Spring Seasons

Author

Leonidas of Tarentum

Source

Spring on the Coast

Medium

Poem

Language

Greek

Time

200 BC 200s BC 3rd century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Leonidas of Tarentum. Spring on the Coast. 3rd century BC.

Current Citation

Leonidas of Tarentum. "Spring on the Coast." The Greek Anthology, translated by Clive Sansom, edited by Peter Jay. Penguin Classics, 1973.

If the British went out by water, to show two lanterns in the North Church steeple; and if by land, one as a signal, for we were apprehensive it would be difficult to cross the Charles River or get over Boston Neck.

Paul Revere

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Topic

American Revolution

Speaker

Paul Revere

Language

English

Time

1775 1770s 18th century

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Citation

Revere, Paul. Signal code arranged with Colonel Conant. 16 Apr. 1775, Boston, MA, USA.

People have already had to rethink so many concepts of motion, and they will also gradually come to realize that what we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic

Fate

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Source

Letters to a Young Poet

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Franz Kappus. 12 Aug. 1904.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters to a Young Poet, translated by Charlie Louth. Penguin Classics, 2014.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Peter De Vries

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Topic

Gluttony Food Coping mechanisms

Speaker

Mrs. Thicknesse

Author

Peter De Vries

Source

Comfort Me With Apples

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Citation

De Vries, Peter. Comfort Me with Apples. Little, Brown & Company, 1956.

The beautiful implies a combination of many different qualities. Strength alone, without elegance, etc., is not beauty. In a single word, the broadest definition would be harmony.

Eugène Delacroix

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Topic

Nature of beauty Beauty

Author

Eugène Delacroix

Source

Journals of Eugene Delacroix

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

1854 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Delacroix, Eugène. Undated journal entry. c. 1854.

Current Citation

Delacroix, Eugène. The Journal of Eugène Delacroix: A Selection, translated by Lucy Norton, edited by Hubert Wellington. Phaidon, 1995.