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I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living.

Harvey Milk

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Topic

Hope

Speaker

Harvey Milk

Source

The Times of Harvey Milk

Medium

Film

Genre

Documentary

Language

English

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

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Citation

The Times of Harvey Milk. Directed by Rob Epstein, Pacific Arts/Black Sand Productions, 1984.

From religion comes a man's purpose; from science his power to achieve it.

William Henry Bragg

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Topic

Science and religion Purpose of religion Religion Purpose of science Science

Author

William Henry Bragg

Source

The World of Sound

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bragg, William Henry. "Sound in War." c. Christmas 1919, The Royal Institution, Westminster, London, England, UK. Lecture.

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone!

The Twilight Zone

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Topic

Adventure

Speaker

Narrator (Twilight Zone)

Actor

Rod Serling

Source

The Twilight Zone

Medium

TV program

Genre

Science fiction (TV) Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"The Man in the Bottle." The Twilight Zone, written by Rod Serling, directed by Don Medford, season 2, episode 2, Cayuga Productions and CBS Television Network, 1960.

Died some, pro patria,
Non 'dulce' non 'et decor'…
Walked eye-deep in hell
Believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving
Came home, home to a lie.

Ezra Pound

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Topic

Horrors of war World War I

Author

Ezra Pound

Source

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Pound, Ezra. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. The Ovid Press, 1920, pt. 1, poem 4.

Think big, think positive, never show any sign of weakness. Always go for the throat. Buy low, sell high. Fear? That's the other guy's problem. Nothing you have ever experienced will prepare you for the unbridled carnage you are about to witness. Superbowl, The World Series—they don't know what pressure is. In this building, it's either kill or be killed. You make no friends in the pits and you take no prisoners. One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley. Are you with me?

Trading Places

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Topic

Finance Capitalism Pressure

Speaker

Louis Winthorpe III

Actor

Dan Aykroyd

Source

Trading Places

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1983 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Trading Places. Directed by John Landis, Paramount Pictures Studios/Cinema Group Ventures, 1983.

Work liberates.

Anonymous

Words inscribed on the gates of Dachau concentration camp, 1933, and subsequently on those of Auschwitz.

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Topic

Work

Author

Anonymous

Medium

Inscription

Language

German

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Inscription. Appears over the entrance of various Nazi Germany concentration camps. c. 1940.

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

Glenn Gould

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Topic

Purpose of art Art

Speaker

Glenn Gould

Source

1982 York University commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Gould, Glenn. Commencement address. Commencement ceremony. 6 Nov. 1982, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born.

Robert Ardrey

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Topic

Human origins Evolution Science and religion

Author

Robert Ardrey

Source

African Genesis

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Ardrey, Robert. African Genesis: A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man. Atheneum, 1961.

In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.

Felix Frankfurter

Baker v. Carr

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Topic

Political progress Theory of progress Democracy

Author

Felix Frankfurter

Source

Baker v. Carr

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Frankfurter, Felix. Dissenting Opinion. Baker v. Carr. United States Reports, vol. 369, 26 Mar. 1962, pp. 266-349. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/369/186/.

The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss.

John Nance Garner

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Topic

Vice Presidency American politics

Speaker

John Nance Garner

Language

English

Time

20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Garner, John Nance. Comment to Lyndon B. Johnson on the vice presidency. c. 1964.

The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason.

Bertrand Russell

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Topic

Questioning one's beliefs Critical thinking Philosophy

Author

Bertrand Russell

Source

The Problems of Philosophy

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1912 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Russell, Bertrand. The Problems of Philosophy. Henry Holt and Company/Williams and Norgate, 1912, ch. 15.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your senses for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.

Jim Morrison

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Topic

Living inauthentically Authenticity

Speaker

Jim Morrison

Source

Creem Magazine

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1981 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Morrison, Jim. Interview. PBS Studios, 1969.

We have to be people who set each other free.

Harry Hay

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Topic

Interconnectedness of all people Liberation

Speaker

Harry Hay

Source

The Progressive

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hay, Harry, Jr. "Meet Pioneer of Gay Rights, Harry Hay." Interviewed by Anne-Marie Cusac. The Progressive, Sept. 1998.

A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, and sick.

John Steinbeck

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Topic

Excess

Author

John Steinbeck

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Steinbeck, John. Letter to Adlai Stevenson. 5 Nov. 1959.

A good idea, he thought, to sleep off to death. It was like taking an anaesthetic. Freezing was not so bad as people thought. There were lots worse ways to die... Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known.

Jack London

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Topic

Moment of death Facing death Death

Author

Jack London

Source

To Build a Fire

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." The Youth's Companion, 29 May 1902.

Current Citation

London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories. Signet, 2009.

I pray you to believe what I have said about Buchenwald. I have reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it I have no words.

Edward R. Murrow

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Topic

The Holocaust Limits of language

Speaker

Edward R. Murrow

Medium

Radio broadcast

Language

English

Time

1945 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Murrow, Edward R. Broadcast report on Buchenwald concentration camp. 15 Apr. 1945, London, England, UK. Radio broadcast.

Luck, if you will, is something you work for, and the harder you work the more luck you have.

Esther Eberstadt Brooke

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Topic

Luck Hard work

Author

Esther Eberstadt Brooke

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Brooke, Esther Eberstadt. Career Clinic: The Answer to Your Job Problem. Farrar & Rinehart, 1940, pt. 3, ch. 2.

There is no easy walk-over to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow again and again before we reach the mountain-tops of our desire.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Topic

Fighting for freedom

Author

Jawaharlal Nehru

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Nehru, Jawaharlal. "From Lucknow to Tripuri." The Unity of India: Collected Writings, 1937-1940. Lindsay Drummond, 1941.

We are now brought face to face with a tyranny which holds out the threat of becoming, thanks to "the conquest of nature" and in particular of human nature, what no earlier tyranny ever became: perpetual and universal.

Leo Strauss

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Topic

Soviet Union Cold War Totalitarianism

Author

Leo Strauss

Source

On Tyranny

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Strauss, Leo. On Tyranny: An Interpretation of Xenophon's Hiero. The Free Press, 1948.

These be
Three silent things:
The falling snow... The hour
Before the dawn... The mouth of one
Just dead.

Adelaide Crapsey

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Topic

Silence

Author

Adelaide Crapsey

Source

Triad

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Crapsey, Adelaide. "Triad." Verse. Manas Press, 1915.

Current Citation

Crapsey, Adelaide. "Triad." Complete Poems and Collected Letters of Adelaide Crapsey, edited by Susan S. Smith. State University of New York Press, 2016.