Everyone has their reasons.

The Rules of the Game

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Topic

Justifications and rationales

Speaker

Octave

Actor

Jean Renoir

Source

The Rules of the Game

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Satire (film) Drama Satire

Language

French

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

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Citation

La règle du jeu [The Rules of the Game.] Directed by Jean Renoir, Nouvelle Édition Française, 1939.

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In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Edith Wharton

A Backward Glance

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Topic
Long life Openness to change Curiosity

Author

Edith Wharton
Source
A Backward Glance
Genre
Autobiography and memoir
Language
English
Time
1934 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Wharton, Edith. "A First Word." A Backward Glance. D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934.

Another quote from 1939

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Winston Churchill

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Topic
Russia International politics
Speaker
Winston Churchill
Source
The First Month of War
Medium
Radio broadcast Speech
Genre
Political speech
Statement Type
Prophecies and predictions
Language
English
Time
1939 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Churchill, Winston. "The First Month of War." 1 Oct. 1939, Broadcasting House, London, UK. Radio Broadcast.

Another quote from the following genre Drama

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles

The Third Man

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Topic
Nature of history
Speaker
Harry Lime
Actor
Orson Welles
Source
The Third Man
Medium
Film
Genre
Film noir Drama (film) Drama
Language
English
Time
1949 1940s 20th century
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The Third Man. Directed by Carol Reed, London Films, 1949.

Another quote originally in French

Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of it than they already possess.

René Descartes

Discourse on Method

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Topic
Common sense

Author

René Descartes
Source
Discourse on Method
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
French
Time
1637 1630s 17th century
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Original Citation

Descartes, René [published anonymously]. Discours de la Méthode: Pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences [Discourse on Method: To Conduct Reason Well, and Seek Truth in the Sciences]. Leiden, 1637, pt. 1.

Current Citation

Descartes, René. Discourse on the Method, translated by Ian Maclean. Oxford University Press, 2008, pt. 1.