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I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

John Masefield

Sea-Fever

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Sailing Ocean and sea

Author

John Masefield

Source

Sea-Fever

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Masefield, John. "Sea-Fever." Salt-Water Ballads. London: Grant Richards, 1902, I. 1.

Current Citation

Masefield, John. "Sea-Fever." Sea Fever: Selected Poems of John Masefield, edited by Philip W. Errington. Carcanet Press, 2005, I. 1.

I like a escalator because a escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. You would never see a "Escalator temporarily out of order" sign, just "Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. We apologize for the fact that you can still get up there."

Mitch Hedberg

Strategic Grill Locations

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Mitch Hedberg

Source

Strategic Grill Locations

Medium

Comedy album

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Statement Type

Joke

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Hedberg, Mitch. Strategic Grill Locations. 7 Sept. 1999, The Laff Stop Comedy Club, Houston, Texas, USA.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Jack Handey

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Trees

Author

Jack Handey

Statement Type

Joke

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Saturday Night Live, created by Lorne Michaels, season 17, episode 3, NBC, 12 Oct. 1991.

Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

Konrad Lorenz

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Topic

Man and animals

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Konrad Lorenz

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Lorenz, Konrad. Quoted in New York Times Magazine. 11 Apr. 1965.

The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

Edwin Edwards

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Topic

Political campaigns Political scandals

Speaker

Edwin Edwards

Medium

Speech

Statement Type

Political joke Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1983 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Edwards, Edwin. Spoken while campaigning for governor of Louisiana. 1983, LA, USA.

If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture you would be pretty much left with "Let's Make a Deal."

Fran Lebowitz

The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community

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Topic

American culture

Author

Fran Lebowitz

Source

The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community The New York Times

Medium

Essay Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Lebowitz, Fran. "The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community." The New York Times, 13 Sept. 1987.

On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing. But in those brevities just before dawn and a little after dark-times neither day nor night-the old roads return to the sky some of its color. Then, in truth, they cast a mysterious shadow of blue, and it's that time when the pull of the blue highway is strongest, when the open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.

William Least Heat-Moon

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The open road Adventure

Author

William Least Heat-Moon

Source

Blue Highways

Genre

Travel writing Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Heat-Moon, William Least. Blue Highways. Fawcett Crest, 1982, preface.

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

Mike Godwin

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Topic

The internet

Author

Mike Godwin

Source

Wired Magazine

Medium

Magazine

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Godwin, Mike. "Meme, Counter-Meme." Wired, 1 Oct. 1994.

If the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Eisentadt v. Baird

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Topic

Right to privacy Contraception

Author

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Source

Eisentadt v. Baird

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1972 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Brennan, William J, Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Eisentadt v. Baird. United States Reports, vol. 405, 22 Mar. 1972, pp. 438-472. supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/405/438/.

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

John Updike

Self-Consciousness

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Topic

War

Author

John Updike

Source

Self-Consciousness

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Updike, John. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs. Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, ch. 4.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

Jacques Barzun

The House of Intellect

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Topic

Feeling alive Nature of life Life

Author

Jacques Barzun

Source

The House of Intellect

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Barzun, Jacques. The House of Intellect. Harper & Brothers, 1959, ch. 6.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Topic

Political leadership Leadership

Author

John Kenneth Galbraith

Source

The Age of Uncertainty

Genre

Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Age of Uncertainty. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1977, ch. 12.

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea... All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba the Greek

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Topic

The little things Happiness

Author

Nikos Kazantzakis

Source

Zorba the Greek

Medium

Novel

Language

Greek

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kazantzakis, Nikos. Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Life and State of Alexis Zorba]. Athens: Dimitrakou, 1946, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek, translated by Peter Bien. Simon & Schuster, 2014, ch. 7.

And were an epitaph to be my story
I'd have a short one ready for my own.
I would have written of me on my stone:
I have a lovers quarrel with the world.

Robert Frost

The Lesson for Today

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Topic

Man and the world

Author

Robert Frost

Source

The Lesson for Today

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Frost, Robert. Reading of The Lesson for Today at Harvard University. 20 June 1941, Phi Beta Kappa Society meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

Calvin Coolidge

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Equality Political progress Political theory American founding

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Calvin Coolidge

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Coolidge, Calvin. Speech on the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. 5 July 1926, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have no winced nor cried aloud;
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

William Ernest Henley

Invictus

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Topic

Perseverance Overcoming adversity

Author

William Ernest Henley

Source

Invictus

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1888 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Henley, William Ernest. Book of Verses. London: David Nutt, 1888.

Current Citation

Henley, William Ernest. "Invictus." A Selection of Poems. White Press, 2015, st. 1.

But, as the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from the womb and the long gestation of progressive history, so the American Constitution is, so far as I can see, the most wonderful work ever struck off a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

William E. Gladstone

Kin Beyond Sea

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US Constitution

Author

William E. Gladstone

Source

Kin Beyond Sea North American Review

Language

English

Time

1878 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Gladstone, William E. "Kin Beyond Sea." North American Review, Sept. 1878 - Oct. 1878.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is stuck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

William Hazlitt

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Topic

Laughter Crying The human condition

Author

William Hazlitt

Language

English

Time

1818 1810s 19th century

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Citation

Hazlitt, William. "On Wit and Humour." Lectures on the English Comic Writers. c. 1818, Surrey Institution, London, England, UK.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern-why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

William Hazlitt

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Topic

Fear of death

Author

William Hazlitt

Language

English

Time

1822 1820s 19th century

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Original Citation

Hazlitt, William. "On the Fear of Death." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 2, London: H. Colburn.

Current Citation

Hazlitt, William. "On the Fear of Death." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt, edited by Duncan Wu. Vol. 6, Routledge, 2020.

A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion... A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.

Samuel Eliot Morison

On Americans, specifically "Yankees".

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Topic

American character Americans

Author

Samuel Eliot Morison

Source

Maritime History of Massachusetts

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Maritime History of Massachusetts 1783-1860. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921, ch. 2.