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It's not pining, it's passed on. This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.

John Cleese

Monty Python's Flying Circus

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Topic

Death

Speaker

Mr Praline

Actor

John Cleese

Source

Full Frontal Nudity Monty Python's Flying Circus

Medium

TV show

Genre

Comedy (TV)

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Citation

"Full Frontal Nudity." Monty Python's Flying Circus, written by Graham Chapman and John Cleese and Eric Idle, directed by Ian MacNaughton, season 1, episode 8, BBC, 1969.

How about a positive LSD story, that would be newsworthy, don’t you think? Anybody think that? Just once to hear a positive LSD story; “Today a young man on acid…realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves…Here’s Tom with the weather.

Bill Hicks

Relentless

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Topic

Drugs

Speaker

Bill Hicks

Source

Relentless

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Hicks, Bill. Relentless. July 1991, Centaur Theatre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

A purpose is the eternal condition of success. Nothing will take its place. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is a proverb... Education will not; the country is full of unsuccessful educated men... There is no road to success but through a clear, strong purpose.

Theodore T. Munger

On the Threshold

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Topic

How to succeed Success

Author

Theodore T. Munger

Source

On the Threshold

Language

English

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Munger, Theodore T. On the Threshold. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881, ch. 1.

Whether, to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material, taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interest.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Establishing the American legal standard for obscenity, which does not receive First Amendment protection.

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Obscenity Freedom of speech and expression First Amendment

Author

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Medium

Supreme Court opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Brennan, William J, Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Roth v. United States. United States Reports, vol. 354, 24 June 1957, pp. 476-514. supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/354/476/.

Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill,
Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

Rupert Brooke

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Topic

Experiencing nature

Author

Rupert Brooke

Source

The Hill

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Brooke, Rupert. "The Hill." Collected Poems. John Lane, 1916, I. 1.

Current Citation

Brooke, Rupert. "The Hill." The Poems of Rupert Brooke. Dover Publications, 2020, I. 1.

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

Sir Edward Grey

Remark just before the beginning of World War I.

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Topic

World War I

Speaker

Sir Edward Grey

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1914 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Grey, Edward. Twenty-Five Years, 1892-1916. Vo1. 2, Frederick A. Stokes, 1925, ch. 18.

You've got to be taught
Before it's too late
Before you are six, or seven, or eight
To hate all the people your relatives hate
You've got to be carefully taught.

Rodgers and Hammerstein

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Topic

Hate Prejudice and bias

Author

Rodgers and Hammerstein

Source

You've Got to Be Carefully Taught South Pacific

Medium

Song Musical

Genre

Great American songbook

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Hammerstein, Oscar, II. "You've Got to Be Carefully Taught." South Pacific. Composted by Richard Rodgers. 1949, Majestic Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and shame the devil.

Walter Lippmann

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Topic

Journalism

Author

Walter Lippmann

Genre

Political literature

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Lippmann, Walter. "Journalism and the Higher Law." Liberty and the News. Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920.

All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance—unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion—have the full protection of the guaranties... But implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance... We hold that obscenity is not within the area of constitutionally protected speech or press.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

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Topic

Obscenity Freedom of speech and expression First Amendment

Author

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Medium

Supreme Court opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Brennan, William J, Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Roth v. United States. United States Reports, vol. 354, 24 June 1957, pp. 476-514. supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/354/476/.

I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.
A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
I have wasted my life.

James Arlington Wright

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Topic

Regrets Nature scene

Author

James Arlington Wright

Source

Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Wright, James. "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota." The Paris Review, 1961.

It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away.

John Williams (novelist)

Butcher's Crossing

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Topic

Animal cruelty Man and animals Interconnectedness of all things

Author

John Williams (novelist)

Source

Butcher's Crossing

Medium

Novel

Genre

Western fiction Western

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Williams, John. Butcher's Crossing. Macmillan, 1960, pt. 2, ch. 5.

That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.

Richard Henry Lee

Lee Resolution

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Topic

American Revolution

Author

Richard Henry Lee

Source

Lee Resolution

Language

English

Time

1776 1770s 18th century

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Citation

Lee, Richard Henry. Lee Resolution. 2 July 1776.

The best evidence we have that time travel is not possible, and never will be, is that we have not been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.

Stephen Hawking

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Topic

Time travel

Speaker

Stephen Hawking

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Hawking, Stephen. "The Future of the Universe." Jan. 1991, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, UK. Lecture.

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound. A dimension of sight. A dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into... The Twilight Zone.

Rod Serling

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Topic

The mysterious The unknown

Speaker

Rod Serling

Source

The Twilight Zone

Medium

TV program

Genre

Science fiction (TV) Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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Citation

"A Thing About Machines." The Twilight Zone, directed by David Orrick McDearmon, written by Rod Serling, season 2, episode 4, Cayuga Productions/CBS Productions, 1960.

There is no doubt that, if there were a super-Supreme Court, a substantial proportion of our reversals of state courts would also be reversed. We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.

Robert H. Jackson

Brown v. Allen

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Topic

Judicial supremacy Constitutional theory

Author

Robert H. Jackson

Source

Brown v. Allen

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Jackson, Robert H. United States, Supreme Court. Brown v. Allen. United States Reports, vol. 344, 9 Feb. 1953, pp. 443. Justia, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/344/443/.

There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. These are periods when... To dare is the highest wisdom.

William Ellery Channing

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Topic

Seasons of life Inflection points

Speaker

William Ellery Channing

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1829 1820s 19th century

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Citation

Channing, William Ellery. "The Union." May 1829, Boston, MA, USA. Speech.

I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air.

Alan Seeger

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Topic

Rhythm of life Facing death

Author

Alan Seeger

Source

I Have a Rendezvous with Death

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Seeger, Alan. "I Have a Rendezvous with Death." Poems. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916.

We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look into the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But, the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but it's in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

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Topic

Constitutional interpretation US Constitution Constitutional theory

Speaker

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1985 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Brennan, William J, Jr. "The Constitution of the United States: Contemporary Ratification." Text and Teaching Symposium. 12 Oct. 1985, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. Speech.

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.

T. E. Lawrence

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

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Topic

Dreamers Going for it

Author

T. E. Lawrence

Source

The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Lawrence, T. E. The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. 1926, introductory chapter.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Man and Superman

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Topic

Nature of progress

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Maxims for Revolutionists: Reason Man and Superman

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play)

Language

English

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "Man and Superman: Maxims for Revolutionists." Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021. Originally published by Archibald and Constable Co., Ltd., 1903.