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So this was GM chairman Roger Smith. And he appeared to have a brilliant plan: First, close 11 factories in the U. S., then open 11 in Mexico where you pay the workers 70 cents an hour. Then, use the money you've saved by building cars in Mexico to take over other companies, preferably high-tech firms and weapons manufacturers. Next, tell the union you're broke and they happily agree to give back a couple billion dollars in wage cuts. You then take that money from the workers, and eliminate their jobs by building more foreign factories. Roger Smith was a true genius.

Roger and Me

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Deindustrialization Business strategy

Speaker

Michael Moore

Actor

Michael Moore

Source

Roger and Me

Genre

Documentary (film)

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Roger and Me. Directed by Michael Moore, Dog Eat Dog Films, 1989.

Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

Iris Murdoch

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Love Vulnerability

Author

Iris Murdoch

Source

Chicago Review

Medium

Magazine

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Murdoch, Iris. "The Sublime and the Good." Chicago Review, vol. 13, no. 3, autumn 1959.

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

William Whewell

The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences

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Scientific theory

Author

William Whewell

Source

The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1840 1840s 19th century

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Whewell, William. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History. Vol. 1, London: John W. Parker, 1840.

Current Citation

Whewell, William. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Art allows you to imbue the truth with a sort of magic, so it can infiltrate the psyches of more people, including those who don't believe the same things as you.

Wangechi Mutu

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Nature of art Art

Speaker

Wangechi Mutu

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

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Mutu, Wangechi. Quoted in 33 Artists in 3 Acts, written by Sarah Thornton. W. W. Norton & Company, 2014, p. 59. Originally an interview with Sarah Thornton, c. 2013.

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Tennyson

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Fresh start Progress New Year

Author

Alfred Tennyson

Source

In Memoriam A.H.H.

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1850 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. In Memoriam A.H.H. London: Edward Moxon, 1850, pt. 106, st. 1.

Current Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "In Memoriam A.H.H." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009 pt. 106, st. 1.

It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another.

Gordon Gekko

Wall Street

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Zero sum games Finance

Speaker

Gordon Gekko

Actor

Michael Douglas

Source

Wall Street

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Wall Street. Directed by Oliver Stone, American Entertainment Partners/American Films, 1987.

Every man hath a good and bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.

Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy

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Duality of man

Author

Robert Burton

Source

The Anatomy of Melancholy

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1621 1620s 17th century

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Original Citation

Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1621, pt. 1.

Current Citation

Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by Holbrook Jackson. New York Review Books, 2001, pt. 1.

Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Immigration Assimilation

Author

Maxine Hong Kingston

Source

The Woman Warrior

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Kingston, Maxine Hong. "No Name Woman." The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.

Mathematics takes us still further from what is human, into the region of absolute necessity, to which only the actual world, but every possible world, must conform.

Bertrand Russell

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Mathematics Laws of physics

Author

Bertrand Russell

Source

The Study of Mathematics The New Quarterly

Medium

Essay Magazine

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Russell, Bertrand. "The Study of Mathematics." The New Quarterly, Nov. 1907.

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love... If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

Carl Sagan

Cosmos

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Empathy Interconnectedness of all people History

Speaker

Carl Sagan

Source

Cosmos

Medium

TV program

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Sagan, Carl. Cosmos. Random House, 1980.

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, and infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

Molly Haskell

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Single women Single life Patriarchy

Author

Molly Haskell

Source

Love and Other Infectious Diseases

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Haskell, Molly. Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir. William Morrow, 1990.

The saying is true: “The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.”

William Shakespeare

Henry V

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Talking too much

Speaker

Boy

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Henry V

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play)

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1599 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. Henry V. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1599, The Curtain, Shoreditch, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 4.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Henry the Fifth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 4.

Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

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Creativity Innovation The individual Committees

Speaker

Alfred Whitney Griswold

Source

Address at Yale University

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Griswold, Alfred Whitney. Address at Yale University. 9 Jun. 1957, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

Warren G. Harding

Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding

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Natural inequality Poverty Economic inequality

Speaker

Warren G. Harding

Source

Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

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Harding, William G. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1921, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

There was a moment, when I used to blame everything and everyone for all the pain and suffering and vile things that happened to me, that I saw happen to my people. Blame everybody. Blamed white people, blamed society, blamed God. I didn't get no answers 'cause I was asking the wrong questions. You have to ask the right questions.

American History X

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Blaming others

Speaker

Sweeney

Actor

Avery Brooks

Source

American History X

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime (film) Drama (film) Crime Drama

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

American History X. Directed by Tony Kaye, New Line Cinemas/The Turman-Morrissey Company, 1998.

Well, Pa, a woman can change better'n a man. A man lives sorta—well, in jerks. Baby's born or somebody dies, and that's a jerk. He gets a farm or loses it, and that's a jerk. With a woman, it's all in one flow, like a stream—little eddies and waterfalls—but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it thata way.

Ma Joad

The Grapes of Wrath

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Nature of men Nature of women Men and women

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Ma Joad

Actor

Jane Darwell

Source

The Grapes of Wrath

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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The Grapes of Wrath. Directed by John Ford. 20th Century Fox, 1940.

Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

Anthony Powell

A Dance to the Music of Time

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Aging

Speaker

Umfraville

Author

Anthony Powell

Source

A Dance to the Music of Time

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Powell, Anthony. A Dance to the Music of Time: Temporary Kings. Vol. 11, London: Heinemann, 1973, ch. 1.

All I'm saying is that if I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life, remind me to kill myself.

Dazed and Confused

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Topic

High school Adolescence Looking back Youth

Speaker

Randall 'Pink' Floyd

Actor

Jason London

Source

Dazed and Confused

Medium

Film

Genre

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

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Dazed and Confused. Directed by Richard Linklater, Detour Filmproduction/Alphaville Films, 1993.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

Eric Hoffer

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Seeking happiness Happiness Unhappiness Seeking

Author

Eric Hoffer

Source

The Passionate State of Mind and Other Aphorisms

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Hoffer, Eric. The Passionate State of Mind, and Other Aphorisms. Harper & Row, 1955, no. 280.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

Charles Mackay

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

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Groupthink The mob Human nature

Author

Charles Mackay

Source

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Language

English

Time

1841 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Mackay, Charles. "National Delusions." Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. Vol. 1, London: Richard Bentley, 1841.