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My feelings are too intense. I hate bitterly, I love too exaltingly, I pity to extravagantly, I hurt too painfully. We American blacks call that "soul."

Chester Himes

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Topic

Black experience

Author

Chester Himes

Source

The Quality of Hurt

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1972 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Himes, Chester. The Quality of Hurt: The Autobiography of Chester Himes. Vol. 1, Doubleday, 1972.

It has often been said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.

G.K. Chesterton

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Topic

Religion

Author

G.K. Chesterton

Source

Charles Dickens: A Critical Study

Language

English

Time

1906 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Chesterton, G.K. Charles Dickens: A Critical Study. Dodd Mead & Company, 1906, ch. 1.

Everybody knows the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows.

Leonard Cohen

Everybody Knows

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Things are getting worse

Speaker

Leonard Cohen

Source

Everybody Knows

Medium

Song

Language

English

Time

1988 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Cohen, Leonard and Sharon Robinson. "Everybody Knows." Performed by Leonard Cohen. I'm Your Man. Columbia Records, 1988.

I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age-unless you're an American, of course.

John Osborne

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Topic

America and the world

Speaker

Jimmy Porter

Author

John Osborne

Source

Look Back in Anger

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger. 1956, Royal Court Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1.

Current Citation

Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger. Faber & Faber, 2015, act 1.

No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you never should trust experts. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require to have their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.

Lord Salisbury

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Topic

Experts

Author

Lord Salisbury

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Lord Salisbury. Letter to Lord Lytton. 15 June 1877.

The only ones who remember when you came in second are your wife and your dog.

Damon Hill

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Topic

Winning and losing Second place Losing

Author

Damon Hill

Source

The Sunday Times

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Hill, Damon. The Sunday Times. 18 Dec. 1994.

I'm using art as a means of changing myself, as a means of breaking out of a category.

Vito Acconci

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Topic

Self-expression Personal growth Art

Speaker

Vito Acconci

Source

Sexuality: Documents of Contemporary Art

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Acconci, Vito. Interviewed by Cindy Nemser. c. 1971.

Current Citation

Acconci, Vito. Sexuality: Documents of Contemporary Art, edited by Amelia Jones. Whitechapel Gallery/The MIT Press, 2014.

The life-history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture, and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.

Ruth Benedict

Patterns of Culture

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Topic

Custom and convention Formation of character

Author

Ruth Benedict

Source

Patterns of Culture

Genre

Anthropology

Language

English

Time

1934 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Benedict, Ruth. Patterns of Culture. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934, ch. 1.

Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

Wendell Willkie

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Topic

Freedom

Author

Wendell Willkie

Source

One World

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Willkie, Wendell Lewis. One World. Simon & Schuster, 1943, ch. 13.

He is risen.

Angel

Mark 16:6

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Topic

Jesus's resurrection

Speaker

Angel

Source

Gospel of Mark The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

60 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Mark 16:6).

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Importance of money Money

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

The Irrational Knot Our Corner

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "The Irrational Knot." Our Corner. 1885-1887, preface. Serial.

Immunities that are valid as against the federal government by force of the specific pledges of particular amendments have been found to be implicit in the concept of ordered liberty, and thus, through the Fourteenth Amendment, become valid as against the states.

Benjamin Cardozo

Palko v. Connecticut

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Topic

Citizen and state Constitutional law

Author

Benjamin Cardozo

Source

Palko v. Connecticut

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan. United States, Supreme Court. Palko v. Connecticut. United States Reports, vol. 302, 6 Dec. 1937, pp. 319-329. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/302/319/.

Throughout the ages, man has conquered tragedy with his ability to create works of art.

Will Barnet

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Topic

Art as therapy Purpose of art Art

Speaker

Will Barnet

Source

22 Famous Painters and Illustrators Tell How They Work

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Barnet, Will. "Interview with Mary Anne Guitar." 22 Famous Painters and Illustrators Tell How They Work. David McKay, 1964, p. 11.

The march of social progress is like a long and straggling parade, with the seers and prophets at its head and a smug minority bringing up the rear.

Pierre Berton

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Topic

Social progress Progress

Author

Pierre Berton

Source

The Smug Minority

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Berton, Pierre. The Smug Minority. McLelland & Stewart, 1968.

Britain will be honoured by historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

David Ormsby Gore

Quoted in The New York Times

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Topic

British imperialism Imperialism

Speaker

David Ormsby Gore

Source

The New York Times

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Ormsby-Gore, David. Quoted in The New York Times. 28 Oct. 1962.

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the "transcendent" and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mamals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you.

Christopher Hitchens

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Topic

How to live

Author

Christopher Hitchens

Source

Letters to a Young Contrarian

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hitchens, Christopher. Letters to a Young Contrarian. Art of Mentoring. Basic Books, 2001, envoi.

Do you ever do this, you think back on all the times you’ve had with someone and you just replay it in your head over and over again.

(500) Days of Summer

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Topic

Looking back Dwelling on the past Broken relationships

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

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Citation

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

Every man, woman, and child alive should see the desert one time before they die. Nothin' at all for miles around. Nothin' but sand and rocks and cactus and blue sky. Not a soul in sight.

25th Hour

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Topic

The desert

Speaker

James Brogan

Actor

Brian Cox

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.

Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of law. Detestation of existing policies is easily transformed into forcible resistance of the authority which puts them in execution, and it would be folly to disregard the causal relation between tire two. Yet to assimilate agitation, legitimate as such, with direct incitement to violent resistance, is to disregard the tolerance of all methods of political agitation which in normal times is a safeguard of free government.

Learned Hand

Masses Pub Co. v. Patten

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Topic

First Amendment US Constitution Freedom of speech and expression

Author

Learned Hand

Source

Masses Pub Co. v. Patten

Medium

Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Hand, Learned. US District Court for the Southern District of New York. Masses Pub. Co. v. Patten, 244 F. 535 (1917).

They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words—"free-love"—as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free. It is the nature of love to bind itself, and the institution of marriage merely paid the average man the compliment of taking him at his word.

G.K. Chesterton

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Topic

Casual sex Sex Commitment (relationships)

Author

G.K. Chesterton

Source

A Defence of Rash Vows The Defendant

Language

English

Time

1901 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Chesterton, G.K. "The Defendant." The Wit, Whimsy and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 6, Coachwhip Publications, 2009. Originally published by R. Brinley Johnson, 1901, introduction.