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No, not again. I...why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam? I swear to God, one of these days, I just kick this piece of shit out the window!

Office Space

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Downsides of technology Technology

Speaker

Samir

Actor

Ajay Naidu

Source

Office Space

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Office Space. Directed by Mike Judge, Judgemental Films, 1999.

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Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

Stephen Jay Gould

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Randomness Life

Author

Stephen Jay Gould

Source

Wonderful Life

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Gould, Stephen Jay. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. W. W. Norton & Co., 1989, ch. 1.

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My son-and what's a son? A thing begot
Within a pair of minutes, thereabout,
A lump bred up in darkness.

Thomas Kyd

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Parents and children

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Don Hieronimo

Author

Thomas Kyd

Source

The Spanish Tragedy

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1592 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish Tragedy. 1592, The Rose, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 11.

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Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish Tragedy, edited by Michael Neill. W. W. Norton & Company, 2013, act 3, sc. 11.

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She was the People's Princess, and that is how she will stay... In our hearts and in our memories forever.

Tony Blair

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Princess Diana The Royal Family

Speaker

Tony Blair

Source

Associated Press

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

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Blair, Tony. Press Release. Associated Press, 31 Aug. 1997.

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Keep violence in the mind
Where it belongs.

Brian Aldiss

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Barefoot in the Head

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Violent fantasies Violence

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Brian Aldiss

Source

Barefoot in the Head

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Aldiss, Brian. Barefoot in the Head. Faber & Faber, 1969.

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How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

Edward Coke

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Custom and convention Reason Law

Author

Edward Coke

Source

Institutes of the Lawes of England

Medium

Treatise

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1628 1620s 17th century

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Coke, Edward. The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England. Or, a Commentarie upon Littleton, Not the Name of a Lawyer Onely, but of the Law it selfe. London: Societe of Stationers, 1628, bk. 1, ch. 10, sect. 80.

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Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.

Charlotte Whitton

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Patriarchy Women

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Charlotte Whitton

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Magazine

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Whitton, Charlotte. Canada Month. June 1963.

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We are not the masters. The people are the masters. We are the servants of the people... What the electorate gives, the electorate can take away.

Tony Blair

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Elections Democracy Political theory Politics

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Tony Blair

Source

Speeches of Tony Blair

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

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English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

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Blair, Tony. Addressing Labour MPs on the first day of the new Parliment. 7 May 1977, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

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O Caledonia, stern and wild,
Meet nurse for a poetic child!
Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,
Land of the mountain and the flood.

Sir Walter Scott

The Lady of Minstrel

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Scotland

Author

Sir Walter Scott

Source

The Lady of Minstrel

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1805 1800s 19th century

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Scott, Walter, Sir. The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: Longman, Hurst,
Rees, and Orme, 1805, canto 6, st. 2.

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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?

Alan Greenspan

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Financial panics and bubbles The stock market Investing

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Alan Greenspan

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The Challenge of Central Banking in a Democratic Society

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Speech

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English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Greenspan, Alan. "The Challenge of Central Banking in a Democratic Society." The Annual Dinner and Francis Boyer Lecture of The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. 5 Dec. 1996, Washington, DC, USA.

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The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them.

Mark Rothko

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Artist and audience Art and religion Art

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Mark Rothko

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Conversations with Artists: 35 American Painters, Sculptors and Architects Discuss Their Work and One Another with Selden Rodman

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

20th century

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Rothko, Mark. Conversations with Artists: 35 American Painters, Sculptors, and Architects Discuss Their Work and One Another with Selden Rodman. Capricorn Books, 1961. Originally stated in an interview with Selden Rodman in 1957.

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Insurrection-by means of guerrilla bands-is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke.

Giuseppe Mazzini

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Anti-imperialism Rebellion Political theory

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Giuseppe Mazzini

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Italian

Time

1833 1830s 19th century

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Mazzani, Giuseppe. General Instructions for the Members of Young Italy. 1831, sect. 4.

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Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?

Henry James

North American Review

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Carpe diem Living life to the fullest Life

Speaker

Lewis Lambert Strether

Author

Henry James

Source

The Ambassadors North American Review

Medium

Novel Magazine

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

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James, Henry. "The Ambassadors." North American Review, 1903.

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James, Henry. The Ambassadors, edited by Christopher Butler. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 5.

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This Nation--this generation--in this hour, has man's first chance to build the Great Society--a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Social democracy Role of government American politics

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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Johnson, Lyndon B. Address accepting the presidential nomination. Democratic National Convention. 27 Aug. 1964, Atlantic City, NJ, USA.

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To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius, and to mend the heart;
To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold,
Live o'er each scene, and be what they behold:
For this the tragic Muse first trod the stage.

Alexander Pope

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Purpose of art Power of art Art

Author

Alexander Pope

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Prologue to Addison's Tragedy of Cato Cato

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1713 1710s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Pope, Alexander. "Prologue to Addison's Cato." Cato, written by Joseph Addison. 14 Apr. 1713, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, UK, I. 1-5.

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Pope, Alexander. "Prologue to Mr. Addison's Tragedy of Cato." Pope: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series). Everyman's Library, 2018, I. 1-5.

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Now and then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine ran on, visitors or no visitors. It was like some horrible crime committed in a dungeon, all unseen and unheeded, buried out of sight and of memory.

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle

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Animal cruelty Man and animals

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Upton Sinclair

Source

The Jungle

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1905 1900s 20th century

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Sinclair, Upton. "The Jungle." Appeal to Reason, 25 Feb. 1905-4 Nov. 1905.

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Sinclaire, Upton. The Jungle. Dover Publications, 2001, ch. 3.

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Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Christopher Fry

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Poetry

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Christopher Fry

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Time Magazine

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

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Fry, Christopher. Time Magazine. 3 Apr. 1950.

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I put forward as a general definition of civilization, that a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of Truth, Beauty, Adventure, Art, Peace.

Alfred North Whitehead

Adventures of Ideas

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Civilization

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Alfred North Whitehead

Source

Adventures of Ideas

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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Whitehead, Alfred North. Adventures of Ideas. The Macmillan Company/Simon and Schuster, 1933, ch. 19, sec. 1.

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I'm a little bit, you know, seat of my pants, I try to be alert and available... For life to happen to you. We're living this life, we’re in this life, and if you’re not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it... But if you’re available, then life gets huge... You're really living it.

Bill Murray

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Being present Living life to the fullest Life

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Bill Murray

Source

Charlie Rose

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

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Murray, Bill. Interviewed by Charlie Rose. Charlie Rose, PBS, 10 Feb. 2014.

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It is a terrible shame for me-I came back, still alive, without having won the war.

Shoichi Yokoi

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On returning to Japan after surviving for 28 years in the jungles of Guam before surrendering to the Americans in 1972.

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World War II Shame

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Shoichi Yokoi

Source

Independent

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

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Yokoi, Shoichi. Quoted in "Obituary: Shoichi Yokoi." Written by James Kirkup. The Independent, 25 Sept. 1997.

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