Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

On the Waterfront

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Topic

Dog eat dog world Preemptive war

Speaker

Terry Malloy

Actor

Marlon Brando

Source

On the Waterfront

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime (film) Drama (film) Crime Drama

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1954 1950s 20th century

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Citation

On the Waterfront. Directed by Elia Kazan, Horizon Pictures, 1954.

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Medium
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Genre
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Statement Type
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Language
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Another quote of the following type Advice

If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!

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Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Topic
Charting one's own path

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Advice
Language
German
Time
1883 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1885, pt. 4.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by Robert Pippin, translated by Adrian Del Caro. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pt. 4.