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A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces,
An airline ticket to romantic places;
And still my heart has wings
These foolish things
Remind me of you.

Holt Marvell

These Foolish Things Remind Me of You

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Topic

Being in love Memories

Speaker

Holt Marvell

Source

These Foolish Things Remind Me of You

Medium

Song

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Maschwitz, Eric (published as Holt Marvell). "These Foolish Things Remind Me of You." Composed by Jack Strachey. Boosey & Hawkes, 1935.

The part of our moral theory... That covers how we affect future generations... Is the most important part of our moral theory, since the next few centuries will be the most important in human history.

Derek Parfit

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Topic

Moral theory Moral progress The future

Author

Derek Parfit

Source

Reasons and Persons

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Parfit, Derek. Reasons and Persons. Oxford University Press, 1984.

This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final Note stating that unless we heard from them by 11 0'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.

Neville Chamberlain

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Topic

World War II

Speaker

Neville Chamberlain

Medium

Radio broadcast Speech

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Chamberlain, Neville. Radio address. 3 Sept. 1939, Cabinet Room, 10 Downing Street, London, England, UK.

The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin

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Topic

Winning

Speaker

Baron Pierre de Coubertin

Medium

Speech

Language

French

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

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Citation

De Coubertin, Pierre. Banquet given by the British Government. 24 July 1908, Grafton Galleries, London, England, UK.

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

Joseph Chamberlain

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Topic

Imperialism

Speaker

Joseph Chamberlain

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1904 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Chamberlain, Joseph. Quoted in The Times. 13 May 1904. Originally spoken during a speech on 12 May 1904, Birmingham, England, UK.

Taxation and representation are inseparable... Whatever is a man's own, is absolutely his own; no man hath a right to take it from him withough his consent either expressed by himself or representative; whoever attempts to do it, attempts an injury; whoever does it, commits a robbery; he throws down and destroys the distinction between liberty and slavery.

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

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Topic

Taxation without representation Taxes

Speaker

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

Source

On the Declaratory Bill of the Sovereignty of Great-Britain over the Colonies.

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1766 1760s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Lord Camden. "On the Declatory Bill of the Sovereignty of Great-Britain over the Colonies." House of Lords, 10 Feb. 1766, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra just for you.

Philip Larkin

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Topic

Parents and children Trauma Childhood

Author

Philip Larkin

Source

This Be the Verse High Windows

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Larkin, Philip. "This Be the Verse." High Windows. Faber & Faber Limited, 1974. Originally published in New Humanist, Aug. 1971.

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building hath three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

Henry Wotton

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Topic

Architecture

Author

Henry Wotton

Source

Elements of Architecture

Medium

Treatise

Language

English

Time

1624 1620s 17th century

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Citation

Wotton, Henry. Elements of Architecture. London: John Bill, 1624, pt. 1.

War is hell, and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time.

Ian Hay

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Topic

War and peace War

Speaker

Captain Wagstaffe

Author

Ian Hay

Source

The First Hundred Thousand

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Hay, Ian. "The First Hundred Thousand." Blackwood's Magazine, 1915.

It never ceases to puzzle me, that, while men's and women's bodies fit jigsaw-tight in an altogether miraculous way their minds remain wretchedly unaligned.

Beryl Bainbridge

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Topic

Men and women

Author

Beryl Bainbridge

Source

The Birthday Boys

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Bainbridge, Beryl. The Birthday Boys. Gerald Duckworth and Company, 1991.

Even the act of peeling a potato can be a work of art if it is a conscious act.

Joseph Beuys

Quoted in Artforum

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Topic

Nature of art Housework and homemaking Art

Speaker

Joseph Beuys

Source

Artforum

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Beuys, Joseph. "An Interview with Joseph Beuys." Interviewed by Willoughby Sharp. Artforum, Dec. 1969.

Distribution should undo excess
And each man have enough.

William Shakespeare

King Lear

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Topic

Redistribution of resources Socialism

Speaker

Gloucester

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

King Lear

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1606 1600s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. King Lear. King's Men, 26 Dec. 1606, Palace of Whitehall, Westminster, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Tragedy of King Lear." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 1.

There's an experienced rebel, Time,
And in his squadrons Poverty;
There's Age that brings along with him
A terrible artillery:
And if against all these thou keep'st thy crown,
Th'usurper Death will make thee lay it down.

Thomas Flatman

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Topic

Challenges of life Time Poverty Aging Death

Author

Thomas Flatman

Source

The Defiance

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1682 1680s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Flatman, Thomas. "The Defiance." Poems and Songs. London: Benjamin Tooke, 1674.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility.

Thomas De Quincey

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Topic

Escalation

Author

Thomas De Quincey

Source

Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1839 1830s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

De Quincey, Thomas. "On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts." Blackwood's Magazine, 1827.

Current Citation

De Quincey, Thomas. On Murder, edited by Robert Morrison. Oxford University Press, 2009.

As for others and the world around him he never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavor to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm, for the love of his neighbor was as deeply in him as the hatred of himself, and so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbor is not possible without love of one's self, and that self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair.

Hermann Hesse

Steppenwolf

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Topic

Loving one's neighbor Self-hatred Loving oneself Love

Author

Hermann Hesse

Source

Steppenwolf

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hesse, Herman. Der Steppenwolf [The Steppenwolf]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1927.

Current Citation

Hesse, Herman. Steppenwolf, translated by Basil Creighton. Picador, 2002.

Were I to... Take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, "In your lifetime, have you known peace?" wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in turn into his father, I would never hear the word "yes" if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years.

Rebecca West

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Topic

Nature of war War and peace Peace War

Author

Rebecca West

Source

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

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Citation

West, Rebecca. Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia. Vol. 1, The Viking Press, 1941.

You can't get at the truth by writing history; only the novelist can do that.

Gerald Brenan

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Topic

Nature of truth Truth History Power of literature Novels

Author

Gerald Brenan

Source

Times Literary Supplement

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1986 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Brenan, Gerald. Times Literary Supplement. 28 Nov. 1986.

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

W. Somerset Maugham

Cakes and Ale

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Topic

Old vs. young Wisdom

Author

W. Somerset Maugham

Source

Cakes and Ale

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

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Original Citation

Maugham, William Somerset. Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard. William Heinemann/Garden City Publishing Co., 1930.

Current Citation

Maugham, William Somerset. Cakes and Ale. Vintage, 2000.

We can only pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

John Buchan

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Topic

Paying it forward

Author

John Buchan

Source

Address to Boy Scouts

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Buchan, John. Address to the people of Canada on the coronation of George VI. 12 May 1937, Canada.

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Gerald Priestland

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Topic

Journalism

Speaker

Gerald Priestland

Source

Observer

Language

English

Time

1988 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Priestland, Gerald. Radio broadcast in London. 19 May 1988, London, England, UK.