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Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night.
God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

Alexander Pope

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Topic

Scientific progress

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

Epitaph: Intended for Sir Isaac Newton

Medium

Epitaph

Language

English

Time

1730 1730s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Pope, Alexander. Epitaph: Intended for Sir Isaac Newton. c. 1730.

Current Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Epitaph Intended for Sir Isaac Newton." Alexander Pope: The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Alexander Pope

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Topic

Learning from mistakes Personal growth

Author

Alexander Pope

Source

Thoughts on Various Subjects

Language

English

Time

1727 1720s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Citation

Pope, Alexander. "Thoughts on Various Subjects." Swifts's Miscellanies. London, 1727, no. 11.

What Sculpture is to a Block of Marble, Education is to a Human Soul.

Joseph Addison

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Topic

Education

Author

Joseph Addison

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1711 1710s 18th century

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Citation

Addison, Joseph. "Tuesday, November 6, 1711." The Spectator, 1711, no. 215.

People come up to me all the time and say "you should be a model," or, "you look just like a model," or "maybe you should try to be a man who models." And I always have to laugh because I'm so good looking. Of course I'm a model.

Derek Zoolander

Zoolander

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Topic

Modeling

Speaker

Derek Zoolander

Actor

Ben Stiller

Source

Zoolander

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Zoolander. Directed by Ben Stiller, Village Roadshow Productions/VH1 Films/NPV Entertinment/Red Hour Productions/Scott Rudin Productions, 2001.

You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?

Independence Day

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Topic

Government spending

Speaker

Julius Levinson

Actor

Judd Hirsch

Source

Independence Day

Medium

Film

Genre

Science fiction (film) Action (film) Science fiction Action

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Independence Day. Directed by Roland Emmerich, Centropolis Entertainment, 1996.

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

Joseph Pulitzer

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Topic

Freedom of the press Media

Author

Joseph Pulitzer

Language

English

Time

1904 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Pulitzer, Joseph. "The College of Journalism.” The North American Review, May 1904.

We are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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Topic

American Civil War Military strategy

Author

William Tecumseh Sherman

Source

Letter to Henry W. Halleck

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Sherman, William Tecumsch. Letter to Henry W. Halleck. 24 Dec. 1864.

Current Citation

Sherman, William Tecumsch. Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman. Vol. 2, Penguin Classics, 2000, ch. 21.

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full human being and one's existence as a sexual being.

Susan Sontag

The Pornographic Imagination

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Topic

Pornography

Author

Susan Sontag

Source

The Pornographic Imagination Partisan Review

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Sontag, Susan. "The Pornographic Imagination." Partisan Review, Spring 1967.

Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should.

Jurassic Park

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Topic

Technological progress Downsides of progress

Speaker

Malcolm

Actor

Jeff Goldblum

Source

Jurassic Park

Medium

Film

Genre

Science fiction (film) Action (film) Science fiction Action

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Jurassic Park. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment, 1993.

All of my friends at school grew up and settled down
And they mortgaged up their life
One thing's not said too much, but I think it's true
They just get married cause there's nothing else to do.

The Rolling Stones

Sittin' on a Fence

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Settling Marriage

Speaker

The Rolling Stones

Source

Sittin' on a Fence

Medium

Song

Genre

Rock music

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Richards, Keith and Mick Jagger. Sittin' on a Fence. Performed by Twice as Much. Immediate Records, 1966.

The book says we might be through with the past, but the past is not through with us!

Magnolia

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Topic

Effects of the past The past

Speaker

Jimmy Gator

Actor

Philip Baker Hall

Source

Magnolia

Medium

Film

Genre

Psychological drama (film) Drama (film) Psychological drama Drama

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Magnolia. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, Ghoulardi Film Company/JoAnne Sellar Productions, 1999.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Barbara W. Tuchman

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Topic

Books

Author

Barbara W. Tuchman

Source

The Washington Post

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Tuchman, Barbara. "Papyrus to Paperbacks: The World that Books Made." The Washington Post, 30 Dec. 1979.

I woke up in a great mood. I don’t know what happened.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

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Topic

Good mood Optimism

Speaker

Mike Damone

Actor

Robert Romanus

Source

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Medium

Film

Genre

Coming of age (film) Comedy (drama) Coming of age Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Directed by Amy Heckerling,Refugee Films, 1982.

Science is whatever we want it to be.

30 Rock

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Topic

Nature of science Science

Speaker

Dr. Spaceman

Actor

Chris Parnell

Source

30 Rock

Medium

TV program

Genre

Comedy (TV) Comedy

Language

English

Time

2007 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"Fireworks." 30 Rock, written by Tina Fey and Dave Finkel, directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller, season 1, episode 18, Broadway Video and Little Stranger, 2007.

You cannot conquer America.

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

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Topic

America

Speaker

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1777 1770s 18th century

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Citation

Pitt, William. Speech responding to a speech by Henry Howard who spoke in favour of the war against the American colonists. House of Lords meeting. 18 Nov. 1777, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.

Hannah Arendt

On Violence

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Topic

Power Violence Opposites Political theory Politics

Author

Hannah Arendt

Source

On Violence

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Arendt, Hannah. "On Violence." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972, ch. 2. Originally published as "A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence." by The New York Review, 27 Feb. 1969.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan-spoiled.

Israel Zangwill

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Topic

Christianity Paganism

Speaker

Sidney

Author

Israel Zangwill

Source

Children of the Ghetto

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1892 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Zangwill, Israel. Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People. The Jewish Publication Society, 1892, bk. 2, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Zangwill, Israel. Children of the Ghetto. Wayne State University Press, 1998, bk. 2, ch. 6.

Praising all alike, is praising none.

John Gay

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Topic

Praising others

Author

John Gay

Source

A Letter to a Lady

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1714 1710s 18th century

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Gay, John. A Poem: in a Letter to a Lady: Occasion'd by the Arrival of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. Dublin: Daniel Tompson, 1714, I. 120.

Current Citation

Gay, John. A Letter to a Lady. The British Library, 2011, I. 120.

Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.

Bruce Oldfield

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Fashion

Author

Bruce Oldfield

Source

Independent

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Oldfield, Bruce. The Independent. 9 Sept. 1989.

Wherever a knave is not punished, an honest man is laughed at.

George Savile, Lord Halifax

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Topic

Rule of law Criminal law Law Political theory Politics

Author

George Savile, Lord Halifax

Source

A Character of King Charles II

Language

English

Time

1750 1750s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Citation

Savile, George. "Of Punishment." A Character of King Charles The Second and Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections. London: J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750.