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It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.

Douglas Adams

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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Horses Animals Man and animals

Author

Douglas Adams

Source

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Medium

Novel

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Adams, Douglas. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. William Heinemann Ltd./Pocket Books, 1987, ch. 2.

The Lord is a man of war.

Exodus 15:3

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Topic

Nature of God God

Source

Exodus The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Exodus 15:3).

The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success. That-with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success-is our national disease.

William James

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Topic

Success Love of money

Author

William James

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1906 1900s 20th century

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Citation

James, William. Letter to H. G. Wells. 11 Sept. 1906.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which they have delivered to our care: we owe it to our posterity, not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

Junius

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Topic

Debt to the past Preservation of freedom

Author

Junius

Medium

Open letter Letter

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1769 1760s 18th century

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Citation

Junius. Letter to the Printer of the Public Advertiser. 8 Aug. 1769.

Long experience has taught me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.

Anthony Eden

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Topic

Criticism from others Criticism

Speaker

Anthony Eden

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Eden, Anthony. Speech at Lord Mayor's guildhall banquet. Lord Mayor's Guildhall Banquet. c. 1956, London, England, UK.

When we, the Workers, all demand: "What are we fighting for?"…
Then, then we'll end that stupid crime, that Devil's madness-War.

Robert W. Service

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Topic

End of war War

Author

Robert W. Service

Source

Michael

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Service, Robert W. "Michael." Ballads of a Bohemian. Barse & Hopkins/T. Fisher Unwin, 1921, I. 31.

The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.

Paul Tillich

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Topic

Nature of God God

Speaker

Paul Tillich

Source

The Shaking of the Foundations

Medium

Sermon

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Tillich, Paul. "The Depth of Existence." Sunday services sermon. c. 1965, Union Theological Seminary Chapel, New York, NY, USA.

Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is "Who am I going to be today?"

Fay Weldon

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Clothing Identity

Author

Fay Weldon

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Weldon, Fay. Quoted in The New Yorker. 26 June 1995.

We of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who participated in the decisions on Vietnam acted according to what we thought were the priniples and traditions of this nation. We made our decisions in the light of those values. Yet we were wrong, terribbly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why.

Robert McNamara

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Topic

Vietnam War

Author

Robert McNamara

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

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Citation

McNamara, Robert. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. Random House, 1995, preface.

You should feel slightly incompetent at what you're trying to do. The minute you start to feel like an expert, what you really are is a hack.

Michael Cunningham

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Topic

Pushing one's limits Incompetence Expertise

Speaker

Michael Cunningham

Source

The Independent

Medium

Interview Newspaper

Language

English

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Cunningham, Michael. "Michael Cunningham Interview: Shining a Light on Ageing, Love, and Innocence." Interviewed by Hephzibah Anderson. Independent, 23 May 2014.

Ah, this, that we call happiness, how intimate a part of the soul it is, and of what little importance are the outside elements which seem to go to its making!

Andre Gide

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Topic

Happiness

Author

Andre Gide

Source

Strait is the Gate

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gide, Andre. La Porte Etroite [Strait is the Gate]. Mercure de France, 1909, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Gide, Andre. Strait is the Gate. Penguin Books, 2001, ch. 5.

Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relationships with men, in their relationships with women, all men are rapists, and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.

Marilyn French

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Topic

Rape Oppression of women Men and women Women

Speaker

Mira

Author

Marilyn French

Source

The Women's Room

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

French, Marilyn. The Women's Room. Simon & Schuster, 1977, ch. 19.

Relationships should be based on value and fact, on how you get on, on what things you enjoy together. I think romance has caused more unhappiness almost than anything.

Diana Athill

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Topic

Romance Relationships Love Unhappiness

Speaker

Diana Athill

Source

Write, Never Marry, and Other Love Advice from Simone de Beauvoir's Editor Lenny's Letter

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2017 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Athill, Diana. "Write, Never Marry, and Other Love Advice from Simone de Beauvoir's Editor." Written by Anya Raza. Lenny Letter, 21 Apr. 2017.

The arousing from sleep, after a recent misfortune, is a bitter moment; the mind at first habitually recurs to its previous tranquility, but is soon depressed by the thought of the contrast that awaits it.

Alessandro Manzoni

The Betrothed

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Topic

Hard times Waking up Sleep

Author

Alessandro Manzoni

Source

The Betrothed

Medium

Novel

Language

Italian

Time

1842 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Manzoni, Alessandro. I promessi sposi [The Betrothed]. Brusselle: Meline, Cans e Compagnia, 1842, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Manzoni, Alessandro. The Betrothed, translated by Michael F. Moore. Modern Library, 2022, ch. 2.

I’m messed up. I am. You know, on the one hand, I want to forget her. On the other hand, I know that she’s the only person in the entire universe that will make me happy.

(500) Days of Summer

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Topic

Getting over someone Broken relationships Broken heart

Speaker

Tom

Actor

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Source

(500) Days of Summer

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy drama (film) Romantic comedy (film) Comedy drama Romantic comedy

Language

English

Time

2009 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

(500) Days of Summer. Directed by Marc Webb, Searchlight Pictures, Watermark, and RatPac Entertainment, 2009.

It is as wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his name.

Tony Benn

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Topic

Marxism Ideological excess Ideology

Speaker

Tony Benn

Source

The Benn Heresy

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Benn, Tony. Quoted in The Benn Heresy by Alan Freeman. Pluto Press, 1982. Originally stated during a TV interview, c. 1982.

Shall I wasting in despair
Die because a woman's fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with care
'Cause another's rosy are?
Be she fairer than the day,
Or the flow'ry meads in May,
If she be not so to me,
What care I how fair she be?

George Wither

Fair Virtue

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Topic

Women's attractiveness

Author

George Wither

Source

Fair Virtue

Language

English

Time

1622 1620s 17th century

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Citation

Gent, George Wither. Fair Virtue, The Mistress of Phil'arete. London: John Grismand, 1622, sonnet 4, st. 1.

Sometimes that shark he looks right into ya. Right into your eyes. You know, the thing about a shark, he's got...lifeless eyes. Black eyes. Like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be living...until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white and then...ah, then you hear that terrible high-pitched screamin', and the ocean turns red.

Jaws

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Topic

Shark attacks Sharks

Speaker

Quint

Actor

Robert Shaw

Source

Jaws

Medium

Film

Genre

Thriller (film) Thriller

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Jaws. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Zanuck/Brown Company/Universal Pictures, 1975.

Unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone.

William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 1

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Topic

Guests and visitors

Speaker

Bedford

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Henry VI, Part 1

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play)

Language

English

Time

1592 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Henry VI, Part 1. Lord Strange's Men, 1592, Rose Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 3.

Current Citation

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

Right conclusions are more likely to be gathered out of a multitude of tongues, than through any kind of authoritative selection. To many this is, and will always be, folly; but we have staked upon it our all.

Learned Hand

United States v. Associated Press

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Democracy Authoritarianism Political theory Politics

Author

Learned Hand

Source

United States v. Associated Press

Medium

Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hand, Learned. District Court, S. D. New York. United States v. Associated Press. 52 F. Supp. 362 (1943). 6 Oct. 1943, law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/52/362/1755014/.