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With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves.

Milton Friedman

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Big business Business Hypocrisy Crony capitalism

Author

Milton Friedman

Source

The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1983 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Friedman, Milton. "The Suicidal Impulse of the Business Community." Hoover Pacific Coast Seminar Dinner. 25 Oct. 1983, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

And crawling on the planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in time, and lost in space and meaning.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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Topic

The human condition

Speaker

The Criminologist

Actor

Charles Gray

Source

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Medium

Film

Genre

Musical comedy (film) Musical (film) Musical comedy Musical

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

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Citation

The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Directed by Jim Sharman, Michael White Productions, 1975.

For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required.

Jesus

Luke 12:48

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Topic

Expectations

Speaker

Jesus

Source

Gospel of Luke The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

61 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Luke 12:48).

What with excellent browsing and sluicing and cheery conversation and what-not, the afternoon passed quite happily.

P.G. Wodehouse

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Topic

Good conversation Killing time

Author

P.G. Wodehouse

Source

My Man Jeeves

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Wodehouse, P. G. "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest." Carry On, Jeeves. Herbert Jenkins, 1925. Originally published in Saturday Evening Post, 9 Dec. 1916.

A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.

James VI and I

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Smoking

Author

James VI and I

Source

A Counterblaste to Tobacco

Medium

Treatise

Language

English

Time

1604 1600s 17th century

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Citation

James VI, King and James I, King. A Counterblast to Tobacco. London: Robert Barker, 1604.

When things are very very bad, a drink is the only magic cheap thing left to give you the dream, to make you feel good for a moment.

Charles Bukowski

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Topic

Coping Alcohol

Speaker

Charles Bukowski

Source

Cultural Weekly

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1981 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Bukowski, Charles. Interviewed by Elisa Leonelli. 1981.

I have been in three different prisons, Montgomery. Three different countries. And you know what I learned? I learned prison is a bad place to be.

25th Hour

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Topic

Prison

Speaker

Uncle Nikolai

Actor

Levani

Source

25th Hour

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

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Citation

25th Hour. Directed by Spike Lee. Touchstone Pictures/25th Hour Productions/40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks/Gamut Films/Industry Entertainment, 2002.

I don't paint out of responsibility. I paint out of need.

Jim Dine

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Topic

Artistic expression Self-expression Vocation Painting Art

Speaker

Jim Dine

Source

Artnet

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2010 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Dine, Jim. "Lone Wolf: An Interview with Jim Dine." Interviewed by Ilka Scobie. Artnet, 28 June 2010.

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then when you have the chance to do it better refuse to go near it.

Václav Havel

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Topic

Political progress Political courage Progress Courage Politics

Author

Václav Havel

Source

To the Castle and Back

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

Czech

Time

2007 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Havel, Václav. To the Castle and Back. Vintage, 2007.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

Brooks Stevens

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Topic

Consumerism

Speaker

Brooks Stevens

Medium

Treatise

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Stevens, Brooks. Quoted in The Waste Makers, by Vance Packard. Simon & Schuster, 1960, ch. 6.

Diplomacy is to do and say
The nastiest thing in the nicest way.

Isaac Goldberg

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Topic

Diplomacy Foreign policy International politics

Author

Isaac Goldberg

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Goldberg, Isaac. The Reflex. Oct. 1927.

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... That the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.

Tom Wolfe

The Bonfire of the Vanities

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Topic

Fathers and sons Fatherhood

Author

Tom Wolfe

Source

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Wolfe, Tom. The Bonfire of the Vanities. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987.

Freedom in economic arrangements is itself a component of freedom broadly understood, so economic freedom is an end in itself...economic freedom is also an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom.

Milton Friedman

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Topic

Nature of freedom Freedom Political theory

Author

Milton Friedman

Source

Capitalism and Freedom

Genre

Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Friedman, Milton. Capitalism and Freedom. University of Chicago Press, 1962, ch. 1.

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.

John 1:14

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Topic

Jesus

Source

Gospel of John The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

90 90s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (John 1:14).

Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend,
What trusty treasure in the world can countervail a friend?

Nicholas Grimald

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Topic

Value of friendship Friendship Friends

Author

Nicholas Grimald

Source

Of Friendship

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1557 1550s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Grimald, Nicholas. Of Friendship. c. 1557.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.

Carrie Chapman Catt

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Topic

Custom and convention Law and culture Law

Speaker

Carrie Chapman Catt

Source

Why We Ask for the Submission of an Amendment

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1900 1900s 19th century

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Citation

Catt, Carrie Chapman. "Why We Ask for the Submission of an Amendment." U.S. Senate Committee meeting. 13 Feb. 1900, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom, and under what circumstances we say it.

Václav Havel

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Topic

Nature of truth Truth

Speaker

Fistula

Author

Václav Havel

Source

Temptation

Medium

Play

Language

Czech

Time

1985 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Havel, Václav. Pokoušení [Temptation]. 22 May 1986, Burgtheater, Vienna, Austria.

Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.

Jesus

John 4:48

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Topic

Miracles Doubt and skepticism Faith

Speaker

Jesus

Source

Gospel of John The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

90 90s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (John 4:48).

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view) consists of its attitudes towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Topic

Man and animals

Author

Milan Kundera

Source

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Medium

Novel

Language

Czech

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

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Original Citation

Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

Current Citation

Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

Truth must of necessity be stranger than fiction...For fiction is the creation of the human mind, and therefore is congenial to it.

G.K. Chesterton

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Topic

Nature of truth Truth vs. fiction Truth

Speaker

Basil Grant

Author

G.K. Chesterton

Source

The Singular Speculation of the House-Agent The Club of Queer Trades

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1905 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Chesterton, G.K. "The Club of Queer Trades." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 6, Ignatius Press, 1991. Originally published by Harper & Brothers, 1905.