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There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go-if there are no doors or windows-he walks through a wall.

Bernard Malamud

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Topic

Inflection points

Author

Bernard Malamud

Source

Man in the Drawer

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Malamud, Bernard. "Man in the Drawer." Rembrandt's Hat. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1973.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Henry S. Haskins

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Topic

Inner strength

Author

Henry S. Haskins

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Haskins, Henry S [published anonymously]. "Metapsychics." Meditations in Wall Street. William Morrow & Company, 1940.

Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent.

Gary Shilling

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Topic

Financial panics and publics Financial markets

Speaker

Gary Shilling

Language

English

Time

1986 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Shilling, Gary. Quoted in The Advertiser. 1986.

Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, while there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Eugene Debs

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Topic

Underdogs Outsiders and outcasts

Author

Eugene Debs

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Federal Court. US v. Eugene V. Debs. RG 21, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Criminal Case Files, 1912–1977, Criminal Case #4057. 9. NYT, 18 Sept. 1918.

Our noise for some seconds passed beyond excitement into a kind of immense open anguish, a wailing, a cry to be saved. But immortality is nontransferable. The papers said that the others players, and even the umpires on the field, begged him to come out and acknowledge us in some way, but he refused. Gods do not answer letters.

John Updike

Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu

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Topic

Athletes Heroes

Speaker

On Ted Williams's final game at Fenway Park.

Author

John Updike

Source

Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu The New Yorker

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Updike, John. "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu." New Yorker, 22 Oct. 1960.

Current Citation

Updike, John. Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu. Library of America, 2010.

We will all go together when we go,
All suffused with an incandescent glow.

Tom Lehrer

We Will All Go Together When We Go

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Topic

Nuclear holocaust Cold War

Speaker

Tom Lehrer

Source

We Will All Go Together When We Go

Medium

Song

Genre

Protest music Folk music

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lehrer, Tom. "We Will All Go Together When We Go." An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer. Lehrer Records/Reprise Records/Warner Records, 1959.

We have two lives...The life we learn with and the life we live with after that.

Bernard Malamud

The Natural

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Topic

Life lessons

Speaker

Iris Lemon

Author

Bernard Malamud

Source

The Natural

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Malamud, Bernard. The Natural. Harcourt Brace and Company, 1952.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Grover Norquist

Quoted in The Nation

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Topic

Government spending Limited government Political theory

Speaker

Grover Norquist

Source

The Nation

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Norquist, Grover. Quoted in "Grover Norquist: ‘Field Marshal’ of the Bush Plan." Written by Bob Dreyfuss. The Nation, 26 Apr. 2001.

You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Max Ehrmann

Desiderata

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Topic

Man and the universe

Author

Max Ehrmann

Source

Desiderata

Language

English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Ehrmann, Max. Desiderata. Michigan Tradesman, 5 Apr. 1933.

You live all your life on lies, and then maybe when you're ready to die, it comes to you-that there's nothing, nothing but yourself and what you could have done.

John Williams (novelist)

Butcher's Crossing

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Topic

Living inauthentically Lying to oneself Regrets

Speaker

J.D. McDonald

Author

John Williams (novelist)

Source

Butcher's Crossing

Medium

Novel

Genre

Western fiction Western

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Williams, John. Butcher's Crossing. Macmillan, 1960, pt. 3, ch. 1.

To be a Negro is to participate in a culture of poverty and fear that goes far deeper than any law for or against discrimination... After the racist statues are all struck down, after legal equality has been achieved in the schools and in the courts, there remains the profound institutionalized and abiding wrong that white America has worked on the Negro for so long.

Michael Harrington

The Other America

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Topic

Effects of racism Black experience

Author

Michael Harrington

Source

The Other America

Genre

Sociology Political literature

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Harrington, Michael. The Other America: Poverty in the United States. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1962, ch. 4.

What the Mediterranean Sea was to the Greeks, breaking the bond of custom, offering new experiences, calling out new institutions and activities, that, and more, the ever retreating frontier has been to the United States directly, and to the nations of Europe more remotely. And now, four centuries from the discovery of America, at the end of a hundred years of life under the Constitution, the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

Frederick Jackson Turner

The Significance of the Frontier in American History

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Topic

American frontier

Author

Frederick Jackson Turner

Source

The Significance of the Frontier in American History

Medium

Essay

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Turner, Frederick Jackson. "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." American Historical Association meeting. 1893, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL, USA.

The last time I see Paris will be on the day I die. The city was inexhaustible, and so is its memory.

Elliot Paul

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Topic

Paris

Author

Elliot Paul

Source

The Last Time I Saw Paris

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Paul, Elliot. The Last Time I Saw Paris. ‎Random House, 1942, pt. 2, ch. 23.

For the middle class, the police protect property, give directions, and help old ladies. For the urban poor, the police are those who arrest you. In almost any slum there is a vast conspiracy against the forces of law and order.

Michael Harrington

The Other America

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Topic

Police

Author

Michael Harrington

Source

The Other America

Genre

Sociology Political literature

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Harrington, Michael. The Other America: Poverty in the United States. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1962, ch. 1.

Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Lewis Allan

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Topic

Lynching Black experience

Author

Lewis Allan

Source

Strange Fruit

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Allan, Lewis. "Strange Fruit." Performed by Billie Holiday. Commodore Records, 1939.

Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity... Patriarchy has a still more tenacious or powerful hold through its successful habit of passing itself off as nature.

Kate Millett

Sexual Politics

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Topic

Patriarchy

Author

Kate Millett

Source

Sexual Politics

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Millett, Kate. Sexual Politics. Doubleday, 1970, ch. 2.

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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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.

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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Topic

Trees

Author

Jack Handey

Statement Type

Joke

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

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

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

Authentication Score 1

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

Authentication Score 3

Citation

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