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You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination. Next stop, the Twilight Zone!

The Twilight Zone

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Topic

Adventure

Speaker

Narrator (Twilight Zone)

Actor

Rod Serling

Source

The Twilight Zone

Medium

TV program

Genre

Science fiction (TV) Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"The Man in the Bottle." The Twilight Zone, written by Rod Serling, directed by Don Medford, season 2, episode 2, Cayuga Productions and CBS Television Network, 1960.

Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.

Jeremy Bentham

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

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Topic

Pleasure and pain

Author

Jeremy Bentham

Source

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1789 1780s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Bentham, Jeremy. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. London: T. Payne, 1789, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Bentham, Jeremy. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Dover Publications, 2007, ch. 1.

Died some, pro patria,
Non 'dulce' non 'et decor'…
Walked eye-deep in hell
Believing in old men's lies, then unbelieving
Came home, home to a lie.

Ezra Pound

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Topic

Horrors of war World War I

Author

Ezra Pound

Source

Hugh Selwyn Mauberley

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Pound, Ezra. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley. The Ovid Press, 1920, pt. 1, poem 4.

Think big, think positive, never show any sign of weakness. Always go for the throat. Buy low, sell high. Fear? That's the other guy's problem. Nothing you have ever experienced will prepare you for the unbridled carnage you are about to witness. Superbowl, The World Series—they don't know what pressure is. In this building, it's either kill or be killed. You make no friends in the pits and you take no prisoners. One minute you're up half a million in soybeans and the next, boom, your kids don't go to college and they've repossessed your Bentley. Are you with me?

Trading Places

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Finance Capitalism Pressure

Speaker

Louis Winthorpe III

Actor

Dan Aykroyd

Source

Trading Places

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1983 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Trading Places. Directed by John Landis, Paramount Pictures Studios/Cinema Group Ventures, 1983.

When I go home people'll ask me, "Hey Hoot, why do you do it man? Why, you some kinda war junkie?" I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand that it's about the man next to you, and that's it. That's all it is.

Black Hawk Down

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Topic

Brothers in war War

Speaker

Hoot

Actor

Eric Bana

Source

Black Hawk Down

Medium

Film

Genre

War (film) War

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Black Hawk Down. Directed by Ridley Scott, Scott Free Productions/Revolution Studios/Columbia Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 2001.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Charles Caleb Colton

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Topic

Small town life Cities Rural vs. urban

Author

Charles Caleb Colton

Source

Lacon

Language

English

Time

1820 1820s 19th century

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Citation

Colton, Charles Caleb. Lacon: Or Many Things In Few Words Addressed To Those Who Think. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820.

Nothing haunts like the things we don't say.

Mitch Albom

Have a Little Faith

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Topic

Regrets The road not taken

Author

Mitch Albom

Source

Have a Little Faith

Language

English

Time

2009 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Albom, Mitch. Have a Little Faith: A True Story. Hachette Books/Hyperion, 2009.

There may be dark days ahead, and war can no longer be confined to the battlefield, but we can only do the right as we see the right, and reverently commit our cause to God. If one and all, we keep resolutely faithful to it, then, with God's help, we shall prevail.

The King's Speech

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Topic

World War II

Speaker

King George VI

Actor

Colin Firth

Source

The King's Speech

Medium

Film

Genre

Historical drama (film) Drama (film) Historical drama Drama

Language

English

Time

2010 2010s 21st century

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Citation

The King's Speech. Directed by Tom Hooper, UK Film Council/Momentum Pictures/Aegis Film Fund Molinare, London/FilmNation Entertainment/See-Saw Films/Bedlam Productions, 2010.

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

Glenn Gould

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Purpose of art Art

Speaker

Glenn Gould

Source

1982 York University commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Gould, Glenn. Commencement address. Commencement ceremony. 6 Nov. 1982, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.

William Bradford

Of Plymouth Plantation

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Topic

Small beginnings

Author

William Bradford

Source

Of Plymouth Plantation

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1630 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Bradford, William. Journal entry. 2 Aug. 1630.

Current Citation

Bradford, William. Of Plymouth Plantation: 1620-1647. Random House, 1981, ch. 21.

Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born.

Robert Ardrey

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Topic

Human origins Evolution Science and religion

Author

Robert Ardrey

Source

African Genesis

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Ardrey, Robert. African Genesis: A Personal Investigation into the Animal Origins and Nature of Man. Atheneum, 1961.

In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.

Felix Frankfurter

Baker v. Carr

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Topic

Political progress Theory of progress Democracy

Author

Felix Frankfurter

Source

Baker v. Carr

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Frankfurter, Felix. Dissenting Opinion. Baker v. Carr. United States Reports, vol. 369, 26 Mar. 1962, pp. 266-349. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/369/186/.

The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss.

John Nance Garner

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Topic

Vice Presidency American politics

Speaker

John Nance Garner

Language

English

Time

20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Garner, John Nance. Comment to Lyndon B. Johnson on the vice presidency. c. 1964.

The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason.

Bertrand Russell

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Topic

Questioning one's beliefs Critical thinking Philosophy

Author

Bertrand Russell

Source

The Problems of Philosophy

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1912 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Russell, Bertrand. The Problems of Philosophy. Henry Holt and Company/Williams and Norgate, 1912, ch. 15.

We live in time—it holds us and molds us—but I've never felt I understood it very well. And I'm not referring to theories about how it bends and doubles back, or may exist elsewhere in parallel versions. No, I mean ordinary, everyday time, which clocks and watches assure us passes regularly: tick-tock, click-clock. Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing—until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return.

Julian Barnes

The Sense of an Ending

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Topic

Nature of time Time

Author

Julian Barnes

Source

The Sense of an Ending

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Barnes, Julian. The Sense of an Ending. Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 1.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your senses for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.

Jim Morrison

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Topic

Living inauthentically Authenticity

Speaker

Jim Morrison

Source

Creem Magazine

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1981 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Morrison, Jim. Interview. PBS Studios, 1969.

We have to be people who set each other free.

Harry Hay

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Topic

Interconnectedness of all people Liberation

Speaker

Harry Hay

Source

The Progressive

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Hay, Harry, Jr. "Meet Pioneer of Gay Rights, Harry Hay." Interviewed by Anne-Marie Cusac. The Progressive, Sept. 1998.

A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, and sick.

John Steinbeck

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Topic

Excess

Author

John Steinbeck

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Steinbeck, John. Letter to Adlai Stevenson. 5 Nov. 1959.

A good idea, he thought, to sleep off to death. It was like taking an anaesthetic. Freezing was not so bad as people thought. There were lots worse ways to die... Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known.

Jack London

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Topic

Moment of death Facing death Death

Author

Jack London

Source

To Build a Fire

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." The Youth's Companion, 29 May 1902.

Current Citation

London, Jack. "To Build a Fire." The Call of the Wild and Selected Stories. Signet, 2009.

I pray you to believe what I have said about Buchenwald. I have reported what I saw and heard, but only part of it. For most of it I have no words.

Edward R. Murrow

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Topic

The Holocaust Limits of language

Speaker

Edward R. Murrow

Medium

Radio broadcast

Language

English

Time

1945 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Murrow, Edward R. Broadcast report on Buchenwald concentration camp. 15 Apr. 1945, London, England, UK. Radio broadcast.