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Because violence can only breed more violence and suffering, our struggle must remain nonviolent and free of hatred. We are trying to end the suffering of our people, not to inflict suffering on others.

Dalai Lama

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Reducing suffering Cycle of violence

Speaker

Dalai Lama

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Lama, Dalai. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. Nobel Peace Prize ceremony. 10 Dec. 1989, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Well, when I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Tira

I'm No Angel

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Tira

Actor

Mae West

Source

I'm No Angel

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic comedy (film) Romantic comedy

Statement Type

Innuendo

Language

English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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Citation

I'm No Angel. Directed by Wesley Ruggles, Paramount Pictures, 1933.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Edmund Burke

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Topic

Ambition

Author

Edmund Burke

Source

Letters of Edmund Burke

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1797 1790s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Burke, Edmund. A Third Letter to a Member of the Present Parliament, on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France. London: F. and C. Rivington, 1797.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. Letters on a Regicide Peace." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, letter 3.

Don't be afraid to just sit and watch.

Anthony Bourdain

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Stillness Observation

Author

Anthony Bourdain

Source

All the Things You're Doing Wrong When You Travel Money.com

Medium

Interview

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

2018 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Bourdain, Anthony. "All the Things You're Doing Wrong When You Travel, According to Anthony Bourdain." Interviewed by Megan Leonhardt. Money.com, 12 Mar. 2018, money.com/anthony-bourdain-advice-great-travel/.

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

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Topic

Self-improvement Personal growth Character

Speaker

Albert Einstein

Source

The Death of a Genius Life Magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Einstein, Albert. "The Death of a Genius." Interviewed by William Miller. Life Magazine, 2 May 1955.

I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

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Jonathan Swift

Source

Gulliver's Travels

Genre

Travel writing Satire

Statement Type

Insult

Language

English

Time

1726 1720s 18th century

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Original Citation

Swift, Jonathan. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships. London: Benjamin Motte, 1726, pt. 2, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels, edited by Albert J. Rivero. W. W. Norton & Company, 2001, pt. 2, ch. 6.

Anybody that goes to see a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined!

Archie Bunker

All in the Family

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Topic

Psychiatry Therapy

Speaker

Archie Bunker

Source

All in the Family

Medium

TV program

Genre

Sitcom Comedy (TV) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1972 1970s 20th century

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Citation

"Edith Flips Her Wig." All in the Family, written by Norman Lear and Sam Locke and Olga Vallance, directed by Hal Cooper, season 3, episode 6, Tandem Productions, 1972.

London is a modern Babylon.

Benjamin Disraeli

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London

Author

Benjamin Disraeli

Source

Tancred: or, The New Crusade

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Disraeli, Benjamin. Tancred: or, The New Crusade. Vol. 3, London: Henry Colburn, 1847, bk. 5, ch. 5.

Whatever you are, try to be a good one.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Self-improvement Personal growth

Speaker

William Makepeace Thackeray

Source

A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Thackeray, William Makepeace. Quoted in A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs, written by Laurence Hutton. London: Harper & Brothers, 1898.

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

Samuel Johnson

Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, by James Boswell

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Curiosity

Speaker

Samuel Johnson

Author

James Boswell

Source

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D

Genre

Biography

Language

English

Time

1784 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, written by James Boswell. Vol. 1, London: Charles Dilly, 1791, "1733," aetat. 24.

Current Citation

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.

They come from the end of the line, most of 'em—small towns you never heard of: Pulaski, Tennessee; Brandon, Mississippi; Pork Bend, Utah; Wampum, Pennsylvania. Two years' high school's about it. Maybe if they're lucky, a job waiting for them back in a factory. But most of 'em got nothing. They're poor. They're the unwanted. Yet they're fighting for our society and our freedom. It's weird, isn't it? At the bottom of the barrel, they know it. Maybe that's why they call themselves "grunts", 'cause a grunt can take it—can take anything.

Platoon

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Soldiers Vietnam War

Speaker

Chris

Actor

Charlie Sheen

Source

Platoon

Medium

Film

Genre

War (film) War

Language

English

Time

1986 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Platoon. Directed by Oliver Stone, Hemdale Film Corporation, 1986.

Who so pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil, is rightwise king born of all England.

Sir Thomas Mallory

Le Morte d'Arthur

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England

Author

Sir Thomas Mallory

Source

Le Morte d'Arthur

Language

English

Time

1485 1480s 15th century

Era

Middle Ages

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Original Citation

Malory, Thomas. Le Morte d'Arthur. London: William Caxton, 1485, bk. 1, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Malory, Thomas. Le Morte D'Arthur. Vol. 1, Penguin Classics, 1970, bk. 1, ch. 5.

He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Samuel Johnson

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Topic

Uncertainty Certainty Wisdom

Author

Samuel Johnson

Source

The Idler

Language

English

Time

1759 1750s 18th century

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Citation

Johnson, Samuel. "Idler." Universal Chronicle, 19 May 1759, no. 57.

Nothing is worse than having an itch you can never scratch!

Blade Runner

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Topic

Powerlessness

Speaker

Leon Kowalski

Actor

Brion James

Source

Blade Runner

Medium

Film

Genre

Dystopian (film) Science fiction (film) Dystopian Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Blade Runner. Directed by Ridley Scott, The Ladd Company/Blade Runner Partnership/Shaw Brothers Studio, 1982.

At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the information age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect Union.

Bill Clinton

Second Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton

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Topic

America and the world

Speaker

Bill Clinton

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Bill Clinton Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Clinton, William J. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1997, West Front, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.

William Wordsworth

To a Butterfly (I've Watched You Now a Full Half-Hour)

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Childhood Nature of time Passage of time

Author

William Wordsworth

Source

To a Butterfly (I've Watched You Now a Full Half-Hour)

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1807 1800s 19th century

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Wordsworth, William. "To a Butterfly." Poems, in Two Volumes. Vol. 2, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 1807, st. 2.

Current Citation

Wordsworth, William. "To a Butterfly ('I've watch you')." William Wordsworth: The Major Works: including The Prelude, edited by Stephen Gill. Oxford University Press, 2008.

It's that every now and again, not often, but occasionally, you get to be a part of justice being done. That really is quite a thrill when that happens.

Philadelphia

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Fighting for justice Justice

Speaker

Andrew Beckett

Actor

Tom Hanks

Source

Philadelphia

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Philadelphia. Directed by Jonathan Demme. Clinica Estetico/TriStar Pictures, 1993.

Lynchings must not be tolerated in a great and civilized country like the United States; courts, not mobs, must execute the penalties of the law.

William McKinley

First Inaugural Address of William McKinley

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Lynching Jim Crow Rule of law

Speaker

William McKinley

Source

First Inaugural Address of William McKinley Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

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Citation

McKinley, William. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1897, Front of original Senate Wing, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age they would say we can become cops or criminals. Today, what I'm saying is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?

The Departed

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Topic

Vocation Decisions and choices

Speaker

Frank Costello

Actor

Jack Nicholson

Source

The Departed

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime (drama) Thriller (film) Crime Thriller

Language

English

Time

2006 2000s 21st century

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Citation

The Departed. Directed by Martin Scorsese, Plan B Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures, Vertigo Entertainment, Media Asia Entertainment Group, Vertigo Films, GK Films, and Media Asia Films, 2006.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

Mark Twain

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Custom and convention Legal theory Law

Author

Mark Twain

Source

The Gorky Incident

Language

English

Time

1906 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Twain, Mark. The Gorky Incident. 1906.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. "The Gorky Incident." Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings, edited by Bernard DeVoto. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004.