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This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final Note stating that unless we heard from them by 11 0'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.

Neville Chamberlain

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Topic

World War II

Speaker

Neville Chamberlain

Medium

Radio broadcast Speech

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Chamberlain, Neville. Radio address. 3 Sept. 1939, Cabinet Room, 10 Downing Street, London, England, UK.

We find it’s always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there’s less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.

Office Space

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Topic

Getting fired Corporate America Days of the week

Speaker

Bob Slydell

Actor

John C. McGinley

Source

Office Space

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Office Space. Directed by Mike Judge, Judgemental Films, 1999.

Everybody I have ever known or read about who was really a great artist has worked until they dropped dead.

Arnold Newman

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Topic

Artistic development Hard work Excellence Art

Speaker

Arnold Newman

Source

American Suburban X

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2009 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Newman, Arnold. Interviewed by Alexis Anne Clements. American Suburb X, 20 Oct. 2009, www.americansuburbx.com/2009/10/interview-interview-with-arnold-newman.html.

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

Joseph Chamberlain

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Topic

Imperialism

Speaker

Joseph Chamberlain

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1904 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Chamberlain, Joseph. Quoted in The Times. 13 May 1904. Originally spoken during a speech on 12 May 1904, Birmingham, England, UK.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming... This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy-deep down. All is well.

Katherine Mansfield

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Topic

Understanding oneself Reaching one's potential

Author

Katherine Mansfield

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Mansfield, Katherine. Diary entry. 17 Oct. 1922.

Current Citation

Mansfield, Katherine. Journal of Katherine Mansfield, edited by J. Middleton Murry. Persephone, 2006.

Taxation and representation are inseparable... Whatever is a man's own, is absolutely his own; no man hath a right to take it from him withough his consent either expressed by himself or representative; whoever attempts to do it, attempts an injury; whoever does it, commits a robbery; he throws down and destroys the distinction between liberty and slavery.

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

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Taxation without representation Taxes

Speaker

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

Source

On the Declaratory Bill of the Sovereignty of Great-Britain over the Colonies.

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1766 1760s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Citation

Lord Camden. "On the Declatory Bill of the Sovereignty of Great-Britain over the Colonies." House of Lords, 10 Feb. 1766, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that in its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Louis Brandeis

Whitney v. California

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Topic

Purpose of government Freedom

Author

Louis Brandeis

Source

Whitney v. California

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Brandeis, Louis. United States, Supreme Court. Whitney v. California. United States Reports, vol. 274, 16 May 1927, pp. 357-379. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/274/357/.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra just for you.

Philip Larkin

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Topic

Parents and children Trauma Childhood

Author

Philip Larkin

Source

This Be the Verse High Windows

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Larkin, Philip. "This Be the Verse." High Windows. Faber & Faber Limited, 1974. Originally published in New Humanist, Aug. 1971.

In this century, which is the century of light and the revelation of mysteries... It is well established that mankind and womankind as parts of composite humanity are coequal and that no difference in estimate is allowable, for all are human.

Abdu'l-Bahá

The Promulgation of Universal Peace

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Topic

Equality Men and women Gender relations Women's rights

Speaker

Abdu'l-Bahá

Source

The Promulgation of Universal Peace

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1912 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Baha, Abdul. Speech at woman's suffrage meeting. 20 May 1912, Metropolitan Temple, New York City, NY, USA.

Current Citation

Baha, Abdul. "May 20, 1912, at Metropolitan Temple, Seventh Avenue and Fourteenth St., New York. Woman's Suffrage Meeting." The Promulgation of Universal Peace. Baha'i Publishing, 2012.

Joel, you wanna know something? Every now and then say, "What the fuck." "What the fuck" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.

Risky Business

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Topic

Questioning authority

Speaker

Miles Dalby

Actor

Curtis Armstrong

Source

Risky Business

Genre

Teen (film) Comedy drama (film) Teen Comedy drama

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1983 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Risky Business. Directed by Paul Brickman, The Geffen Film Company, 1983.

War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.

Saving Private Ryan

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Topic

War

Speaker

Corporal Upham

Actor

Jeremy Davies

Source

Saving Private Ryan

Medium

Film

Genre

Epic (film) War (film) Epic War

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Saving Private Ryan. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks Pictures/Mutual Film Company, 1998.

If we've told lies, you've told half-lies. A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it.

Lawrence of Arabia

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Topic

Lies

Speaker

Mr. Dryden

Actor

Claude Rains

Source

Lawrence of Arabia

Medium

Film

Genre

Epic (film) Epic

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Lawrence of Arabia. Directed by David Lean, Horizon Pictures, 1962.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Schenck v. United States

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Topic

First Amendment Freedom of speech and expression Constitutional law Legal theory Law

Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Source

Schenck v. United States

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Schenck v. United States. United States Reports, vol. 249, 3 Mar. 1919, pp. 47-53. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/249/47/.

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building hath three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

Henry Wotton

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Topic

Architecture

Author

Henry Wotton

Source

Elements of Architecture

Medium

Treatise

Language

English

Time

1624 1620s 17th century

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Citation

Wotton, Henry. Elements of Architecture. London: John Bill, 1624, pt. 1.

War is hell, and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace-time.

Ian Hay

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Topic

War and peace War

Speaker

Captain Wagstaffe

Author

Ian Hay

Source

The First Hundred Thousand

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Hay, Ian. "The First Hundred Thousand." Blackwood's Magazine, 1915.

It never ceases to puzzle me, that, while men's and women's bodies fit jigsaw-tight in an altogether miraculous way their minds remain wretchedly unaligned.

Beryl Bainbridge

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Topic

Men and women

Author

Beryl Bainbridge

Source

The Birthday Boys

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Bainbridge, Beryl. The Birthday Boys. Gerald Duckworth and Company, 1991.

We'll drive. Keep driving. Head out to the middle of nowhere, take that road as far as it takes us. You've never been west of Philly, have ya? This is a beautiful country, Monty. It's beautiful out there, looks like a different world. Mountains, hills, cows, farms, and white churches.

25th Hour

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America

Speaker

James Brogan

Actor

Brian Cox

Source

25th Hour

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

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Citation

25th Hour. Directed by Spike Lee. Touchstone Pictures/25th Hour Productions/40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks/Gamut Films/Industry Entertainment, 2002.

Even the act of peeling a potato can be a work of art if it is a conscious act.

Joseph Beuys

Quoted in Artforum

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Topic

Nature of art Housework and homemaking Art

Speaker

Joseph Beuys

Source

Artforum

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Beuys, Joseph. "An Interview with Joseph Beuys." Interviewed by Willoughby Sharp. Artforum, Dec. 1969.

Distribution should undo excess
And each man have enough.

William Shakespeare

King Lear

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Topic

Redistribution of resources Socialism

Speaker

Gloucester

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

King Lear

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1606 1600s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. King Lear. King's Men, 26 Dec. 1606, Palace of Whitehall, Westminster, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The Tragedy of King Lear." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 1.

Our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination...rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

William J. Brennan, Jr

Frontiero v. Richardson

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Topic

Oppression of women Patriarchy

Author

William J. Brennan, Jr

Source

Frontiero v. Richardson

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Brennan, William J., Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Frontiero v. Richardson. United States Reports, vol. 411, 14 May 1973, pp. 677-692. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/411/677/.