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There are no warlike peoples-just warlike leaders.

Ralph J. Bunche

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Topic

War

Speaker

Ralph J. Bunche

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bunche, Ralph J. Address to United Nations. c. 1971, New York City, NY, USA.

I like to be in America!
Ok by me in America!
Everything free in America
For a small fee in America!

Stephen Sondheim

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Topic

America

Speaker

Anita

Author

Stephen Sondheim

Source

America West Side Story

Medium

Song Musical

Genre

Great American songbook

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Sondheim, Stephen. "America." West Side Story. Composed by Leonard Bernstein. 26 Sept. 1957, Winter Garden Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.

There ain't any answer, there ain't going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.

Gertrude Stein

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Topic

Meaning of life

Author

Gertrude Stein

Source

Brewsie and Willie

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Stein, Gertrude. Brewsie and Willie. Random House, 1946, ch. 5.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

Norman Maclean

A River Runs Through It

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Topic

Interconnectedness of all things Rivers

Author

Norman Maclean

Source

A River Runs Through It

Medium

Novella

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Maclean, Norman. "A River Runs Through it." A River Runs Through It and Other Stories. University of Chicago Press, 1976.

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

Thurgood Marshall

Stanley v. Georgia

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Topic

First Amendment Constitutional law

Author

Thurgood Marshall

Source

Stanley v. Georgia

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Marshall, Thurgood. United States, Supreme Court. Stanley v. Georgia. United States Reports, vol. 394, 7 Apr. 1969, pp. 557-572. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/394/557/.

Oh, what a beautiful mornin'
Oh, what a beautiful day.
I got a beautiful feelin'
Everything's going my way.

Rodgers and Hammerstein

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Topic

Optimism

Author

Rodgers and Hammerstein

Source

Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' Oklahoma!

Medium

Song Musical

Genre

Great American songbook

Language

English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hammerstein, Oscar, II. "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'." Oklahoma! Composed by Richard Rodgers. 1943, St. James Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.

What did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?

Robert Hayden

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Topic

Love

Author

Robert Hayden

Source

Those Winter Sundays

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hayden, Robert. "Those Winter Sundays." A Ballad of Remembrance. Paul Breman, 1962, I. 13.

You got to know when to hold 'em,
Know when to fold 'em,
Know when to walk away,
and know when to run.

Kenny Rogers

The Gambler

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Topic

Judgment

Speaker

Kenny Rogers

Source

The Gambler

Medium

Song

Genre

Country music

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Schlitz, Don. "The Gambler." Performed by Kenny Rogers. The Gambler. United Artists Group, 1978.

Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so fast. When you're a teenager, you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?" Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You'll call it a procedure, but it's a surgery. Your sixties you'll have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn't matter because you can't hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two o'clock in the afternoon, you have lunch around ten, breakfast the night before, you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate soft yogurt and muttering, "how come the kids don't call? How come the kids don't call?" The eighties, you'll have a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand but who you call mama. Any questions?

City Slickers

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Topic

Stages of life Aging Old age

Speaker

Mitch Robbins

Actor

Billy Crystal

Source

City Slickers

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Western (film) Comedy Western

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

City Slickers. Directed by Ron Underwood, Castle Rock Entertainment/Face Productions/Nelson Entertainment, 1991.

If you could say it in words, there'd be no reason to paint.

Edward Hopper

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Topic

Purpose of art Limits of language

Author

Edward Hopper

Source

Time

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hopper, Edward. "Art: The Silent Witness.” Time Magazine, 24 Dec. 1956.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice.

George Jackson

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Topic

Fighting injustice

Author

George Jackson

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jackson, George. Letter to Mother and Father. 2 May 1965.

The chief business of the American people is business.

Calvin Coolidge

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Topic

American character Americans Business

Speaker

Calvin Coolidge

Source

The Press Under a Free Government (Speech)

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Coolidge, Calvin. "The Press Under a Free Government." American Society of Newspaper Editors meeting. 17 Jan. 1925, Washington, DC, USA.

The last mass trials were a great success. There are going to be fewer but better Russians.

Greta Garbo

Ninotchka

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Topic

Show trials Russian communism

Speaker

Ninotchka

Actor

Greta Garbo

Source

Ninotchka

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic comedy (film) Romantic comedy

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Ninotchka. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.

Zora Neale Hurston

Dust Tracks on a Road

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Topic

Experiencing things

Author

Zora Neale Hurston

Source

Dust Tracks on a Road

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hurston, Zora Neale. Dust Tracks on a Road. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942, ch. 16.

Like everybody who is not in love, he imagined that one chose the person whom one loved after endless deliberations and on the strength of various qualities and advantages.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Topic

Nature of love

Author

Marcel Proust

Source

Sodom and Gomorrah In Search of Lost Time

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

French

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Sodom and Gomorrah. Paris: Grasset/Gallimard, 1921-1922.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. Sodom and Gomorrah, translated by John Sturrock. Penguin Classics, 2005.

I am an invisible man... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids-and I might even be said to posses a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Ralph Ellison

Invisible Man

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Topic

Black experience

Author

Ralph Ellison

Source

Invisible Man

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Ellison, Ralph Waldo. Invisible Man. Random House, 1952, prologue.

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

Chinatown

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Topic

Meaninglessness

Speaker

Lawrence Walsh

Actor

Joe Mantell

Source

Chinatown

Medium

Film

Genre

Neo-noir Mystery (film) Mystery

Language

English

Time

1974 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Chinatown. Directed by Roman Polanski, Long Road Productions/Robert Evans Company, 1974.

I've seen a human pyramid before. It was very unnecessary.

Mitch Hedberg

Strategic Grill Locations

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Topic

Meaninglessness

Speaker

Mitch Hedberg

Source

Strategic Grill Locations

Medium

Comedy album

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Statement Type

Joke

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

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

We don't need no education.
We don't need no thought control.
No dark sarcasm in the classroom.
Teacher, leave them kids alone.
Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone!

Pink Floyd

Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2

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Topic

The man Resisting authority

Speaker

Pink Floyd

Source

Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 The Wall

Medium

Song Album

Genre

Rock music

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Waters, Roger. "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2." Performed by Pink Floyd. The Wall. Harvest Records/Columbia Records, 1979.

We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

Winston Churchill

Speech to the Canadian Parliament, December 30, 1941

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Topic

The British people World War II

Speaker

Winston Churchill

Source

Speech to the Canadian Parliament, December 30, 1941

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Some Chicken! Some Neck!" Joint session of Canadian Parliament. 30 Dec. 1941, Ottawa, Canada. Address.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Some chicken! Some neck!', 30 December 1941, Parliament, Ottawa." Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches. A&C Black, 2013.