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I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers...coax us, "Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just give us a bit more time and we’ll produce it; trust us; we're wiser than you." For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now-and we're going to try our hands at it.

Sinclair Lewis

Main Street

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Political progress Progress

Speaker

Carol Milford Kennicott

Author

Sinclair Lewis

Source

Main Street

Medium

Novel

Genre

Satire

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

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Lewis, Sinclair. Main Street. Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920, ch. 16.

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Lewis, Sinclair. "Main Street." Sinclair Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt, edited by John Hersey. Library of America, 1992, ch. 16.

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You never had a rope around your neck. Well, I'm going to tell you something. When that rope starts to pull tight, you can feel the devil bite your ass!

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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Hanging Fear of death Facing death Death

Speaker

Tuco

Actor

Eli Wallach

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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Film

Genre

Western (film) Western

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English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly [Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo]. Directed by Sergio Leone, Produzioni Europee Associati/Constantin Film, 1966.

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You wanna hurt me? Go right ahead if it makes you feel any better. I'm an easy target. Yeah, you're right. I talk too much. I also listen too much. I could be a cold-hearted cynic like you, but I don't like to hurt people's feelings. Well, you think what you want about me. I'm not changing. I like me. My wife likes me. My customers like me. 'Cause I'm the real article. What you see is what you get.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

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Being oneself Authenticity

Speaker

Del Griffith

Actor

John Candy

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles

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Film

Genre

Road movie Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Directed by John Hughes, Hughes Entertainment, 1987.

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When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A.A. Milne

The House at Pooh Corner

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Vulnerability Inner life

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A.A. Milne

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The House at Pooh Corner

Medium

Children's book

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Milne, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. Methuen, 1928, ch. 6.

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Milne, A. A. The House at Pooh Corner. Dutton Books for Young Readers, 2018, ch. 6.

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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

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Forces of history Progress

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Samuel Butler (Novelist)

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Personal journal

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English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

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Samuel Butler. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones. A. C. Fifield, 1912, ch. 1.

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No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.

Sir John Vanbrugh

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The Relapse

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Infidelity Relationship challenges

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Berinthia

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Sir John Vanbrugh

Source

The Relapse

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Play

Genre

Comedy (play) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1696 1690s 17th century

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Vanbrugh, John, Sir. The Relapse. Performed by Colley Cibber, Mary Kent, John Verbruggen, and Jane Rogers. Patent Company, 1696, Drury Lane, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

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Vanbrugh, John, Sir. "The Relapse." The Relapse and Other Plays. Oxford University Press, 2009, act 3, sc. 2.

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But you know the thing about romance is people only get together right at the very end.

Love Actually

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Love stories Love

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Sam

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Thomas Brodie-Sangster

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Love Actually

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Film

Genre

Christmas (film) Romantic comedy (film) Christmas Romantic comedy

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Love Actually. Directed by Richard Curtis, Working Title Films/StudioCanal/DNA Films, 2003.

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I will make it felony to drink small beer.

William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 2

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Beer Alcohol Drinking alcohol

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Cade

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William Shakespeare

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Henry VI, Part 2

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Play

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History (play)

Language

English

Time

1594 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. Henry VI, Part 2. London: Thomas Millington, 1594, act 4, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Second Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 2.

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Were the happinesse of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

Sir Thomas Browne

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The afterlife Heaven Life

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Sir Thomas Browne

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Hydriotaphia

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English

Time

1658 1650s 17th century

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk." Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial, or, a Discourse of the Sepulchral Urns lately found in Norfolk Together with the Garden of Cyrus. London: Henry Brome, 1658, ch. 4.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Hydriotaphia or Urne Buriall (1658)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, ch. 4.

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Love is not just a feeling; it's a practice, something you practice whether you feel like it or not.

Wendell Berry

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Love as action Nature of love Love

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Wendell Berry

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The Kentucky Review

Medium

Interview Academic journal

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Berry, Wendell. Quoted in "Interview with Wendell Berry." Interviewed by Vince Pennington. The Kentucky Review, Spring 1996.

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There is a Chinese curse which says "May he live in interesting times." Like it or not, we live in interesting times. They are times of danger and uncertainty; but they are also the most creative of any time in the history of mankind.

Robert F. Kennedy

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The 60s

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Robert F. Kennedy

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Day of Affirmation Address

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

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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.

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The American axe! It has made more real and lasting conquests than the sword of any warlike people that ever lived; but they have been conquests that have left civilization in their train instead of havoc and desolation... A brief quarter of a century has seen these wonderful changes wrought; and at the bottom of them all lies this beautiful, well-prized, ready, and efficient implement, the American axe!

James Fenimore Cooper

The Chainbearer

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American expansion America

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James Fenimore Cooper

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The Chainbearer

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English

Time

1845 1840s 19th century

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Cooper, James Fenimore. The Chainbearer; or The Littlepage Manuscripts. New York: Burgess, Stringer and Company, 1845, ch. 6.

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Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.

Alain (Emile Chartier)

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Fanaticism Narrow-mindedness Intolerance Power of ideas

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Alain (Emile Chartier)

Source

Propos sur la religion

Language

French

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

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Chartier, Émile [published as Alain]. Propos sur le Religion no. 74. Editions Rieder, 1938.

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You may depend upon it, that a slight contrast of character is very material to happiness in marriage.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Happiness in marriage Marriage

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Table Talk

Language

English

Time

1834 1830s 19th century

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Parental Control of Marriage - Marriage of Cousins - Difference of Character, June 10, 1824." Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. London: John Murray, 1852.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge (2nd ed 1836)." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 14: Table Talk, edited by Kathleen Coburn and Bart Winer. Princeton University Press, 2019.

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Language and our thought-grooves are inextricably interwoven, are, in a sense, one and the same.

Edward Sapir

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Language and thought Language

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Edward Sapir

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English

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

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Sapir, Edward. Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921, ch. 10.

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The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.

Bertrand Russell

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Religious persecution

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Bertrand Russell

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An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish Unpopular Essays

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

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Russell, Bertrand. "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish." Unpopular Essays. George Allen & Unwin, 1950.

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Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

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Herbert Hoover

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Letter

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English

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1928 1920s 20th century

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Hoover, Herbert. Letter to Senator W. H. Borah. 23 Feb. 1928.

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Oh yeah. Lotta pressure. You gotta rise above it. You gotta harness in the good energy, block out the bad. Harness. Energy. Block. Bad. Feel the flow Happy. Feel it. It's circular. It's like a carousel. You pay the quarter, you get on the horse, it goes up and down, and around. It's circular. Circle, with the music, the flow. All good things.

Happy Gilmore

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Pressure New age

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Potter

Actor

Kevin Nealon

Source

Happy Gilmore

Medium

Film

Genre

Sports comedy (film) Comedy (film) Sports comedy Comedy

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Happy Gilmore. Directed by Dennis Dugan, Brillstein-Grey Entertainment/Robert Simonds Productions, 1996.

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The theory of probabilities is at bottom only common sense reduced to calculus.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

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Probability Statistics Mathematics

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Pierre-Simon Laplace

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Theorie Analytique des Probabilites

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Scientific literature

Language

French

Time

1814 1810s 19th century

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Laplace, Pierre-Simon. Theorie Analytique des Probabilities [Analytic Theory of Probability]. Paris: Madame Va Courcier, 1812.

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Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

Dean Acheson

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Quoted in The Guardian

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United Kingdom British empire Post-war Europe Imperialism

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Dean Acheson

Source

The Guardian

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Acheson, Dean. "Special Relationship." 6 Dec. 1962, West Point, NY, USA.

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