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I'm very much afraid, sir, that your greatest test is yet to come.

The King's Speech

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World War II

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Stanley Baldwin

Actor

Anthony Andrews

Source

The King's Speech

Medium

Film

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Historical drama (film) Drama (film) Historical drama Drama

Language

English

Time

2010 2010s 21st century

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The King's Speech. Directed by Tom Hooper, UK Film Council/Momentum Pictures/Aegis Film Fund Molinare, London/FilmNation Entertainment/See-Saw Films/Bedlam Productions, 2010.

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Between "God exists" and "There is no God" lies a whole enormous field which a true sage has great difficulty in crossing. But a Russian knows only one of these two extremes and the middle between them doesn't interest him, which is why he knows nothing or very little... A good man's indifference is as good as any religion.

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Existence of God God

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Anton Chekhov

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Personal journal

Language

Russian

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

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Chekhov, Anton. Diary entry. c. 1885.

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Chekhov, Anton. The Notebooks of Anton Chekhov and Reminiscences of Chekhov, translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf. University Press of the Pacific, 2002.

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Upon the sacredness of property civilization itself depends-the right of the laborer to his hundred dollars in the savings bank, and equally the legal right of the millionaire to his millions.

Andrew Carnegie

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Property rights Political theory

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Andrew Carnegie

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English

Time

1889 1880s 19th century

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Carnegie, Andrew. "Wealth." North American Review, June 1889.

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Carnegie, Andrew. "The Gospel of Wealth." The Gospel of Wealth Essays and Other Writings. Penguin Classics, 2006.

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By education most have been misled.

John Dryden

The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts

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Downsides of education Education

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John Dryden

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The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts

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Poem

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English

Time

1687 1680s 17th century

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Dryden, John. The Hind and the Panther: A Poem, in Three Parts. London: Jacob Tonson, 1687, pt. 3, I. 388.

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Dryden, John. "The Hind and the Panther." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2002, pt. 3, I. 388.

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There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

Pierre Trudeau

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Right to privacy

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Pierre Trudeau

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English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

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Trudeau, Pierre. Comment in the Canadian House of Commons on the decriminalization of homosexuality. Canadian House of Commons. 22 Dec. 1967, Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada.

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Accurst be he that first invented war.

Christopher Marlowe

Tamburlaine the Great

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Anti-war

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Mycetes

Author

Christopher Marlowe

Source

Tamburlaine the Great

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play) Tragedy

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English

Time

1587 1580s 16th century

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Marlowe, Christopher. Tamburlaine the Great. Admiral's Men, 1587, Rose Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 4.

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Marlowe, Christopher. Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays, edited by Frank Romany and Robert Lindsey. Penguin Classics, 2004, act 2, sc. 4.

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I hope you will not have a building of any kind, not a summer cottage, a hotel or anything else, to mar the wonderful grandeur, sublimity, the great loneliness and beauty of the canyon. Leave it as it is.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Conservation

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Speech

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English

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. Speech at the Grand Canyon. 6 May 1903, The Grand Canyon, AZ, USA.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The Natural Wonder of the Grand Canyon." Great Speeches of the 20th Century, edited by Bob Blaisdell. Dover Publications, 2011.

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Everyone repeats themselves.

Rachel Whiteread

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Originality

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Rachel Whiteread

Source

The Guardian

Medium

Interview Newspaper

Language

English

Time

2012 2010s 21st century

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Whiteread, Rachel. "Rachel Whiteread: 'I Couldn't Say No. It Felt Right to Do This One.'" Interviewed by Rachel Cooke. Guardian, Jul 7, 2012, www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jul/07/rachel-whiteread-whitechapel-art-interviewchapel-art-interview.

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Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal.

Elizabeth Fry

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Theory of punishment Criminal law Legal theory Law

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Elizabeth Fry

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English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

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Fry, Elizabeth. Note found among her papers. c. 1848.

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Fry, Elizabeth. Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry, edited by Katharine Fry and Rachel Elizabeth Cresswell. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2011, ch. 10.

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They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

Hosea, 8:7

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Actions have consequences

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Hosea The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Hebrew

Time

710 BC 710s BC 8th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Hosea 8:7).

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I think that Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

Michael Herr

Dispatches

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Vietnam War

Author

Michael Herr

Source

Dispatches

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

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Herr, Michael. "Colleagues." Dispatches. Alfred A. Knopf, 1977, pt. 3.

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At the stroke of the midnight hour, while the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Said just prior to the moment of India's independence from the British Empire.

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India Post-colonialism Political independence

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Jawaharlal Nehru

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Speech

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English

Time

1947 1940s 20th century

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Nehru, Jawaharlal. "Tryst with Destiny." Indian Constituent Assembly. 14 Aug. 1947, New Delhi, India. Speech.

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There are Six Essentials in painting. The first is called spirit; the second, rhythm; the third, thought; the fourth, scenery; the fifth, the brush; and the last is the ink.

Jing Hao

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Painting Art

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Jing Hao

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Notes on Brushwork

Language

Chinese

Time

925 920s 10th century

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Ching Hao. Pi-fa-chi [Notes on Brushwork]. c. 925.

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Ching Hao. Ching Hao's Pi-fa-chi: A Note on the Art of Brush, translated by Kiyohiko Munakata. Artebus Asiae Publishers, 1974.

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Honoring the identity and the special heritage of each nation in the world, we shall never use our strength to try to impress upon another people our own cherished political and economic institutions.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

First Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Non-intervention American foreign policy

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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First Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1953, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Ours was the first society openly to define itself in terms of both spirituality and human liberty. It is that unique self-definition which has given us an exceptional appeal, but it also imposes on us a special obligation, to take on those moral duties which, when assumed, seem invariably to be in our own best interests.

Jimmy Carter

Inaugural Address of Jimmy Carter

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Jimmy Carter

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Inaugural Address of Jimmy Carter Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Political speech

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English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

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Carter, James E. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1977, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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A good collaboration produces universal thinking.

Robert Rauschenberg

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Cooperation and collaboration Artistic process Art

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Robert Rauschenberg

Source

Rauschenberg

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Rauschenberg, Robert. Quoted in Rauschenberg, by Barbara Rose. Vintage Books/Elizabeth Avedon Editions, 1987, p. 85.

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Under a spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands;
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Knickerbocker

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Small town life

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The Village Blacksmith The Knickerbocker

Medium

Poem Magazine

Language

English

Time

1840 1840s 19th century

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Village Blacksmith." The Knickerbocker. New York City: Lewis Gaylord Clark, Nov. 1840, I. 1.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Village Blacksmith." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems & Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, I. 1.

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I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

Izaak Walton

The Compleat Angler

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Fishing

Speaker

Venator

Author

Izaak Walton

Source

The Compleat Angler

Medium

Treatise

Language

English

Time

1653 1650s 17th century

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1653, pt. 1, ch. 18.

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, edited by Marjorie Swann. Oxford University Press, 2014, pt. 1, ch. 18.

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London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow
At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore
Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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London

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Source

Letter to Maria Gisborne

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1822 1820s 19th century

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Letter to Maria Gisborne." Posthumous Poems. London: John and Henry L. Hunt, 1824, I. 193.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Letter to Maria Gisborne." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 193.

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We are here not because we are law-breakers. We are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

Emmeline Pankhurst

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Protest Political progress Progress Politics

Author

Emmeline Pankhurst

Source

My Own Story

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1914 1910s 20th century

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Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Hearsts's International Library, 1914.

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Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story. Vintage Classics, 2018.

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