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Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too truly to be fearful of the night.

Sarah Williams

The Old Astronomer

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Topic

Fear of death Death

Author

Sarah Williams

Source

The Old Astronomer

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1868 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Williams, Sarah. "The Old Astronomer." Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse. Strahan and Co., 1868, I. 15.

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.

Al Gore

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Topic

The internet

Speaker

Al Gore

Source

CNN

Medium

Interview

Statement Type

Political gaffe

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Gore, Al. Interviewed by Wolf Blitzer. CNN, 9 Mar. 1999.

There is no such thing as justice-in or out of court.

Clarence Darrow

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Topic

Elusiveness of justice Justice

Speaker

Clarence Darrow

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Darrow, Clarence. Interview in Chicago. Apr. 1936.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Topic

Nature of life Life

Speaker

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1911 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "The Class of '61." Fiftieth Anniversary of Graduation of the Harvard Class of 1861. 28 June 1911, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "The Class of '61." The Essential Holmes, edited by Richard A. Posner. University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Every tool carries with it the spirit by which it has been created.

Werner Heisenberg

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Topic

Tools

Author

Werner Heisenberg

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Heisenberg, Werner. "An Old and a New Tradition." Gifford Lectures. Winter term 1955-1956, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, UK.

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

Edward Young

Night Thoughts

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Topic

Stars

Author

Edward Young

Source

Night Thoughts

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1745 1740s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Young, Edward. The Complaint: or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. London: R. Dodsley, 1742-1745, Night 8, I. 215.

Current Citation

Young, Edward. Edward Young: Night Thoughts, edited by Stephen Cornford. Cambridge University Press, 2008, Night 8, I. 215.

This is the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

Tom Brokaw

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Topic

Greatest generation

Speaker

Tom Brokaw

Source

Meet the Press

Medium

TV broadcast TV program

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Brokaw, Tom. "Meet the Press." NBC, Normandy, France, 6 June 1994.

This is a free country.

James Flint

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Topic

America

Author

James Flint

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1819 1810s 19th century

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Citation

Flint, James. Letter home. 28 June 1819.

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

John Milton

Areopagitica

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Topic

Tests of character Virtue Character

Author

John Milton

Source

Areopagitica

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1644 1640s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Milton, John. Areopagitca; a speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England. London, 1644.

Current Citation

Milton, John. "Areopagitica." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Americans traditionally love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.

Patton

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Topic

American character Americans War World War II

Speaker

General George S. Patton

Actor

George C. Scott

Source

Patton

Medium

Film

Genre

Biography (film) War (film) Biography War

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Patton. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. 20th Century Fox, 1969.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty-never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Winston Churchill

Speech at Harrow School, October 29, 1941

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Topic

Never giving up Persistence

Speaker

Winston Churchill

Source

Speech at Harrow School, October 29, 1941

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Never Give In." 29 Oct. 1941, Harrow School, Harrow, England, UK. Speech.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston. "'Never give in!', 29 October 1941, Harrow School." Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches. A&C Black, 2013.

And he that strives to touch the stars,
Oft stumbles at a straw.

Edmund Spenser

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Topic

Going for it

Author

Edmund Spenser

Source

The Shepheardes Calender

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1579 1570s 16th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Spenser, Edmund. "Julye." The Shepheardes Calender. London, 1579.

Current Citation

Spenser, Edmund. "The Shepheardes Calender." The Shorter Poems, edited by Richard A. Mccabe. Penguin Classics, 2000.

All's fair in love and war.

Frank E. Smedley

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Topic

Love and war

Speaker

Peter Barnett

Author

Frank E. Smedley

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

Language

English

Time

1850 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Smedley, Francis Edward. Frank Fairlegh; or, Scenes from the life of a private pupil. London: A. Hall, Virtue, & Co., 1850, ch. 50.

The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night-she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-"Is this all?"

Betty Friedan

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Topic

Middle class life Feminism Ennui

Author

Betty Friedan

Source

The Feminine Mystique

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Friedan, Betty. The Feminine Mystique. W. W. Norton & Company, 1963, ch. 1.

The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a willful stranger;
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic

Adventure The open road

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Youth and Love." Songs of Travel. London: Chatto & Windus, 1896, st. 3.

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise, they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a. M. Of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

Joan Didion

On Keeping a Notebook

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Topic

Personal growth

Author

Joan Didion

Source

On Keeping a Notebook Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Didion, Joan. "On Keeping a Notebook." Holiday, 1966.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

Mignon McLaughlin

The Neurotic's Notebook

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Topic

Hope Definition

Author

Mignon McLaughlin

Source

The Neurotic's Notebook

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

McLaughlin, Mignon. The Neurotic's Notebook. ‎The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1963, ch. 5.

I think the main thing a musician would like to do is to give a picture to the listener of the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe. That's what music is to me-it's just another way of saying this is a big, beautiful universe we live in, that's been given to us, and here's an example of just how magnificent and encompassing it is. That’s what I would like to do. I think that’s one of the greatest things you can do in life, and we all try to do it in some way. The musician’s is through his music.

John Coltrane

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Topic

Power of music Music The universe

Speaker

John Coltrane

Source

DownBeat

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Original Citation

Coltrane, John. "John Coltrane and Eric Dolphy Answer the Jazz Critics." Interviewed by Don DeMichael. DownBeat, 12 Apr. 1962.

Current Citation

Coltrane, John. Quoted in Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties, written by Scott Saul. Harvard University Press, 2003.

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Chambered Nautilus

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Topic

Self-improvement Formation of character

Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Source

The Chambered Nautilus The Atlantic

Medium

Poem Magazine

Language

English

Time

1858 1850s 19th century

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Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. "The Chambered Nautilus." The Atlantic Monthly. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, Feb. 1858, st. 5.

Who knows what true loneliness is—not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad.

Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes

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Topic

Existential solitude Loneliness

Author

Joseph Conrad

Source

Under Western Eyes

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1911 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Harper & Brothers/Methuen Publishing, 1911, pt. 1, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Dover Publications, 2003, pt. 1, ch. 2.