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What is hell?
Hell is oneself,
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

T.S. Eliot

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Topic

Hell

Speaker

Edward

Author

T.S. Eliot

Source

The Cocktail Party

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Eliot, T. S. The Cocktail Party. 1949, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 1, sc. 5.

We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it.

Joe Namath

Predicting a Jets Super Bowl victory.

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Topic

Football

Speaker

Joe Namath

Statement Type

Promises and vows

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Original Citation

Namath, Joe. Namath's guarantee to win Superbowl III. Awards dinner. 9 Jan. 1969, Miami Touchdown Club, Miami, FL, USA.

Current Citation

Namath, Joe. All the Way: My Life in Four Quarters. Little, Brown and Company, 2019.

Who order'd, that their longing's fire
Should be, as soon as kindled, cool'd?
Who renders vain their deep desire?
A God, a God their severance rul'd!
And bade betwixt their shores to be
The unplumb'd, salt, estranging sea.

Matthew Arnold

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Topic

Lost love

Author

Matthew Arnold

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1852 1850s 19th century

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Citation

Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "To Marguerite." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, st. 4.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Elizabeth Appell

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Topic

Facing one's fears Personal growth

Author

Elizabeth Appell

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Appell, Elizabeth. “Risk.” John F Kennedy University Newsletter, Jan. 1979.

The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers... Of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good... They were absolutely one soul as they looked at the problem. This, according to Plato, is the only real friendship, the only real common good. It is here that the contact people so desperately seek is to be found.

Allan Bloom

The Closing of the American Mind

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Topic

Community Connecting with others Seeking the truth

Author

Allan Bloom

Source

The Closing of the American Mind

Genre

Political literature Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. Simon & Schuster, 1987, conclusion.

I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.

Muriel Strode

Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers

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Topic

Taking a different path

Author

Muriel Strode

Source

Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Strode, Muriel. "Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers." The Open Court, 1903.

Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.

William Bradford

Of Plymouth Plantation

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Topic

Early America

Author

William Bradford

Source

Of Plymouth Plantation

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1620 1620s 17th century

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Original Citation

Bradford, William. Journal entry. 6 Sept. 1620.

Current Citation

Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation: 1620-1647. Random House, 1981, ch. 9.

Come on down to my apartment-I want to show you some remarkably fine etchings I just bought.

Dorothy Parker

Quoted in The New Yorker

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Dorothy Parker

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Magazine

Statement Type

Sexual innuendo Invitation

Language

English

Time

1931 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Parker, Dorothy. New Yorker. c. 25 July 1931.

Burke said there were three estates in parliament; but, in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

Thomas Carlyle

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic

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Topic

Media Journalism

Author

Thomas Carlyle

Source

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic

Language

English

Time

1840 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "The Hero as Man of Letters." 19 May 1840, London, England, UK. Lecture.

Alcohol is like love...The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

Raymond Chandler

The Long Goodbye

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Topic

Alcoholism Alcohol Drinking

Speaker

Terry Lennox

Author

Raymond Chandler

Source

The Long Goodbye

Medium

Novel

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1953 1950s 29th century

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Citation

Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton/Houghton Mifflin, 1953, ch. 4.

To remember everything is a condition of madness.

Brian Friel

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Topic

Memory

Speaker

Hugh

Author

Brian Friel

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Friel, Brian. Translations, dir. Art O'Briain. 23 Sept. 1980,Guildhall, Derry, Northern Ireland, UK, act 3.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

C. Northcote Parkinson

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Topic

Delay

Author

C. Northcote Parkinson

Source

The Law of Delay

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Parkinson, C. Northcote. The Law of Delay: Interviews and Outerviews. John Murray, 1970, ch. 13.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Yann Martel

Life of Pi (novel)

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Topic

Doubt and skepticism

Author

Yann Martel

Source

Life of Pi (novel)

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Martel, Yann. Life of Pi. Knopf Canada, 2001, ch. 7.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections

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Topic

Absence Missing someone

Author

François de La Rochefoucauld

Source

Reflections

Medium

Epigram

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

French

Time

1678 1670s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

Current Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Hello babies. Welcome to earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies- "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

Kurt Vonnegut

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Topic

Kindness How to behave

Speaker

Eliot Rosewater

Author

Kurt Vonnegut

Source

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965, ch. 7.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

William Hazlitt

On Going on a Journey

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Topic

Purpose of travel Travel

Author

William Hazlitt

Source

On Going on a Journey Table Talk (Hazlitt)

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1822 1820s 19th century

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Original Citation

Hazlitt, William. "On Going a Journey." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 2, London: H. Colburn.

Current Citation

Hazlitt, William. "On Going a Journey." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt, edited by Duncan Wu. Vol. 6, Routledge, 2020.

Not a "gay science," I should say, like some we have heard of; no, a dreary, desolate, and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one: what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science.

Thomas Carlyle

On the discipline of economics.

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Topic

Economics

Author

Thomas Carlyle

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

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Original Citation

Carlyle, Thomas [published anonymously]. "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question." Fraser's Magazine, Dec. 1849.

Current Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "The Nigger Question." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 29, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Oh, the comfort-the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person-having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

Dinah Craik

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Topic

Connecting with others Value of friendship

Author

Dinah Craik

Source

A Life for a Life

Language

English

Time

1859 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Craik, Dinah Mulock. A Life for a Life. B. Tauchnitz, 1859, ch. 16.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Buckminster Fuller

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Topic

Man and nature Government

Author

Buckminster Fuller

Source

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Fuller, Richard Buckminster. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth. Simon and Schuster, 1969, ch. 4.

We got a dead man walking, here! Dead man walking! We got a dead man walking…

The Green Mile

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Topic

Inevitability of death Facing death Death

Speaker

Percy Wetmore

Actor

Doug Hutchison

Source

The Green Mile

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Citation

The Green Mile. Directed by Frank Darabont, Castle Rock Entertainment/Darkwoods Productions, 1999.