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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

Thornton Wilder

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Topic

Conflict in marriage Marriage

Speaker

Mrs. Molloy

Author

Thornton Wilder

Source

The Matchmaker

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1954 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wilder, Thornton. The Matchmaker. 4 Nov. 1954, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 2.

Current Citation

Wilder, Thornton. "The Matchmaker." Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2020, act 2.

A dragon lives forever,
But not so, little boys
Painted wings and giants' rings
Make way for other toys.

Peter, Paul and Mary

Puff, The Magic Dragon

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Topic

Loss of innocence Growing up

Speaker

Peter, Paul and Mary

Source

Puff, The Magic Dragon

Medium

Song

Genre

Folk music Pop music

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Yarrow, Peter and Leonard Lipton. "Puff, The Magic Dragon." Performed by Peter, Paul and Mary. Moving. Warner Records, 1963.

All good things must come to an end.

Henry M. Field

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Topic

Endings

Author

Henry M. Field

Language

English

Time

1859 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Field, Henry M. Summer Pictures: From Copenhagen to Venice. Sheldon and Company, 1859, ch. 1.

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true, than in that of the press. It has accordingly been decided by the practice of the States, that it is better to leave a few of its noxious branches to their luxuriant growth, than by pruning them away, to injure the vigor of those yielding the proper fruits.

James Madison

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Topic

Freedom of the press

Author

James Madison

Language

English

Time

1800 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Madison, James. Report of 1800. Philadelphia, Jan. 1800.

Current Citation

Madison, James. "Report on the Alien and Sedition Acts, January 7, 1800." James Madison: Writings, edited by Jack Rakove. Library of America, 1999.

What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind

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Topic

Decline of civilization

Author

Margaret Mitchell

Source

Gone with the Wind

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Macmillan Publishers, 1936, pt. 2, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Scribner, 2007, pt. 2, ch. 9.

For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that's sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our world gone? We say farewell. Is a new world coming? We welcome it, and we will bend it to the hopes of man.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Second Inaugural Address of Lyndon Baines Johnson

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Topic

American frontier American character

Speaker

Lyndon B. Johnson

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Johnson, Lyndon B. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1965, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Ernest Hemingway

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Topic

Meaninglessness

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Source

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." Scribner's Magazine, Mar. 1933.

Current Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. Scribner, 1998.

Our whole duty, for the present, at any rate, is summed up in this motto, "America first."

Woodrow Wilson

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Topic

American foreign policy Isolationism

Speaker

Woodrow Wilson

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wilson, Woodrow. "America First." Associated Press Luncheon. 20 Apr. 1915, New York City, NY, USA. Address.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

Ralph Lauren

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Topic

Clothing Fashion

Speaker

Ralph Lauren

Language

English

Time

1986 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lauren, Ralph. Quoted in "New Fashion Ads: The Provocative Sells." Written by Michael Gross. The New York Times, 19 Apr. 1986.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Topic

Citizen and state American politics

Speaker

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Speech accepting renomination as president. Democratic National Convention. 27 June 1936, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

I worry about if and when I'll ever find the right man, if I'll ever be able to exhale. The more I try not to think about it, the more I think about it.

Terry McMillan

Waiting to Exhale

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Topic

Finding someone

Author

Terry McMillan

Source

Waiting to Exhale

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

McMillan, Terry. Waiting to Exhale. The Viking Press, 1992.

John F. Kennedy. Remember him? He fucked Marilyn Monroe. Matter of fact, him and his brother Bobby fucked Marilyn Monroe. And history doesn’t talk about that much. You know why history doesn’t talk about that much? Because those two pages in history are stuck together.

Dave Chappelle

Killin' Them Softly

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Topic

History

Speaker

Dave Chappelle

Source

Killin' Them Softly

Medium

Comedy special

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Statement Type

Joke

Language

English

Time

2000 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Chappelle, Dave. Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly. HBO, 26 July 2000.

When the moon is in the seventh house,
And Jupiter aligns with Mars,
Then peace will guide the planets,
And love will steer the stars;
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius.

The 5th Dimension

Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In

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Topic

Astrology

Speaker

The 5th Dimension

Source

Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In

Medium

Song

Genre

Pop music

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rado, James and Gerome Ragni. "Medley: Aquarius / Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)." Performed by The 5th Dimension. The Age of Aquarius. Soul City Records, 1969.

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.

Clare Harner

Immortality

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Topic

Immortality The afterlife

Author

Clare Harner

Source

Immortality

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1934 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Harner, Clare. "Immortality." The Gypsy, Dec. 1934.

Send lawyers, guns, and money
The shit has hit the fan.

Warren Zevon

Lawyers, Guns and Money

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Topic

Disaster

Speaker

Warren Zevon

Source

Lawyers, Guns and Money

Medium

Song

Genre

Rock music

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Zevon, Warren. "Lawyers, Guns and Money." Excitable Boy. Asylum Records, 1978.

If civilization had been left in female hands, we would still be living in grass huts.

Camille Paglia

Sexual Personae

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Topic

Progress

Author

Camille Paglia

Source

Sexual Personae

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson. Yale University Press, 1990, ch. 1.

There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there–good for you! But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

Elizabeth Warren

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Topic

Success in business Success American politics

Speaker

Elizabeth Warren

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Warren, Elizabeth. Remarks on campaign trail. Aug. 2011, Andover, MA, USA.

Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be that an act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void.

John Marshall

Marbury v. Madison

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Topic

Constitutional theory

Author

John Marshall

Source

Marbury v. Madison

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1803 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Marshall, John. United States, Supreme Court. Marbury v. Madison. United States Reports, vol. 5, 24 Feb. 1803, pp. 137-180. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/5/137/.

Warfare... Is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

Margaret Mead

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Topic

War

Author

Margaret Mead

Source

Warfare is Only an Invention—Not a Biological Necessity

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mead, Margaret. "Warfare is Only an Invention--Not a Biological Necessity." Asia, Aug. 1940.

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Topic

Applying the law Rule of law

Speaker

Theodore Roosevelt

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "Third Annual Message to Congress." Joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives. 7 Dec. 1903, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.