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I left my heart in San Francisco
High on a hill it calls to me.
To be where little cable cars climb half-way to
the stars,
The morning fog may chill the air-
I don't care!

Tony Bennett

I Left My Heart in San Francisco

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Topic

San Francisco

Speaker

Tony Bennett

Source

I Left My Heart in San Francisco

Medium

Song

Genre

Great American songbook

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Cross, Douglass. "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." I Left My Heart in San Francisco. Performed by Tony Bennett. Columbia Records, 1962.

Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue of law and order.

Spiro T. Agnew

Speech at Illinois Republican Meeting, September 10, 1970

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Topic

Liberalism

Speaker

Spiro T. Agnew

Source

Speech at Illinois Republican Meeting, September 10, 1970

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Agnew, Spiro. Speech in Illionis. Republican meeting. 10 Sept. 1970, Springfield, IL, USA.

All dwellers in cities must live with the stubborn fact of annihilation... Of all targets, New York has a certain clear priority. In the mind of whatever perverted dreamer might loose the lightning, New York must hold a steady, irresistible charm.

E.B. White

Here is New York

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Topic

New York City Nuclear holocaust

Author

E.B. White

Source

Here is New York

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Citation

White, E. B and Roger Angell. Here is New York. Harper & Brothers, 1949.

Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.

Hermann Hesse

Gertrude

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Topic

Special moments The human condition

Author

Hermann Hesse

Source

Gertrude

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hesse, Herman. Getrud [Gertrude]. Albert Langen, 1910.

Current Citation

Hesse, Herman. Gertrude, translated by Hilda Rosner. Picador, 2005.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Buckminster Fuller

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Topic

Man and nature

Author

Buckminster Fuller

Source

Minneapolis Tribune

Medium

Interview Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Fuller, Richard Buckminster. "Bucky Fuller Gives Us 8 Years." Interviewed by Larry Batson. Minneapolis Tribune, 30 Apr. 1978.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum.

Arthur Eddington

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Topic

Man and animals Probability Randomness

Author

Arthur Eddington

Source

The Nature of the Physical World

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Eddington, Arthur. "The Nature Of The Physical World." Gifford lecture. January – March 1927, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests has said, "Thus far and no farther. We set the limits to thought." The Greeks said, "All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set to thought."

Edith Hamilton

The Greek Way

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Topic

Athens and Jerusalem

Author

Edith Hamilton

Source

The Greek Way

Language

English

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hamilton, Edith. The Greek Way. W. W. Norton & Company, 1930, ch. 2.

I gave my life for freedom-This I know:
For those who bade me fight had told me so.

William Norman Ewer

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Topic

Abuses of patriotism Dying for one's country World War I War

Author

William Norman Ewer

Source

Five Souls

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1914 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Ewer, William Norman. "Five Souls." British Nation, 3 Oct. 1914, I. 5.

Love must not entreat... Or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

Hermann Hesse

Demian

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Topic

Secure love Love

Speaker

Frau Eva

Author

Hermann Hesse

Source

Demian

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

German

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

Current Citation

Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

In one important sense, Marxism is a religion. To the believer it presents, first, a system of ultimate ends that embody the meaning of life and are absolute standards by which to judge events and actions; and, secondly, a guide to those ends which implies a plan of salvation and the indication of the evil from which mankind, or a chosen section of mankind, is to be saved.

Joseph Schumpeter

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Topic

Marxism

Author

Joseph Schumpeter

Genre

Economic literature Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Schumpeter, Joseph. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. Harper & Brothers, 1942, pt. 1, ch. 1.

We were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American System of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines-doctrines of paternalism and static socialism.

Herbert Hoover

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Topic

America and Europe

Speaker

Herbert Hoover

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Hoover, Herbert. Campaign speech about the principles and ideals of the United States Government. 22 Oct. 1928, New York City, NY, USA.

Future shock... The shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

Alvin Toffler

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Topic

Resistance to change Change

Author

Alvin Toffler

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Toffler, Alvin. Future Shock. Random House, 1970, introduction.

It is not that the Englishman can't feel—it is that he is afraid to feel. He has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks—his pipe might fall out if he did.

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)

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Topic

Stiff upper lip Emotion English people

Author

E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster)

Source

Notes on the English Character Atlantic Monthly

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Forster, E.M. "Notes on the English Character." Abinger Harvest. Edward Arnold & Co., 1936. Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, 1920.

Don't sell the steak; sell the sizzle. It is the sizzle that sells the steak and not the cow, although the cow is, of course, mighty important.

Elmer Wheeler

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Topic

Advertising and marketing

Author

Elmer Wheeler

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wheeler, Elmer. "Wheelerpoint #1." Tested Sentences that Sell. Prentice-Hall, 1937.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Rebecca West

Read Mr. Chesterton in Hysterics at marxists.org

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Topic

Feminism Patriarchy

Author

Rebecca West

Source

The Clarion

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

West, Rebecca. "Mr. Chesterton in Hysterics." The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17. Indiana University Press, 1989. Originally published in The Clarion, 14 Nov. 1913.

Georgia, Georgia, no peace I find,
Just an old sweet song keeps Georgia on my mind.

Ray Charles

Georgia on my Mind

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Topic

Georgia American states

Speaker

Ray Charles

Source

Georgia on my Mind

Medium

Song

Genre

Great American songbook Soul music

Language

English

Time

1960 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Gorrell, Stuart. "Georgia on My Mind." Composed by Hoagy Carmichael. Performed by Ray Charles. The Genius Hits the Road. ABC Records, 1960.

Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm... An arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Saul Bellow

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Topic

Power of art Art

Speaker

Saul Bellow

Source

Writers at Work

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Bellow, Saul. Quoted in Writers at Work by George Blimpton. Third series. Penguin Books, 1977.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

Karl Popper

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

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Topic

Scientific theory Nature of science

Author

Karl Popper

Source

The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Genre

Scientific literature

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

Language

German

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Popper, Karl. Logik der Forschung [The Logic of Research]. Julius Springer, 1934, pt. 1, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Popper, Karl. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Routledge, 2002, pt. 1, ch. 1.

Great is thy faithfulness! Great is thy faithfulness!
Morning by morning new mercies I see;
All I have needed thy hand hath provided.
Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me.

Thomas O. Chisholm

Great is Thy Faithfulness

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Topic

God's love God and man

Author

Thomas O. Chisholm

Source

Great is Thy Faithfulness

Medium

Hymn Song

Language

English

Time

1923 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Chisholm, Thomas. Great is thy Faithfullness. Hope Publishing, 1923.

We're gonna be in college soon. You know who's gonna be in college, right?...Women. College women. Women with no curfew, women on the pill, and women...women, bro. We're staring into the future here and the future is women.

Can't Hardly Wait

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Topic

Pursuing women College women

Speaker

Mike Dexter

Actor

Peter Facinelli

Source

Can't Hardly Wait

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic comedy (film) Teen (film) Romantic comedy Teen

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Can't Hardly Wait. Directed by Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, Columbia Pictures/Tall Trees Productions, 1998.