Just old age. It's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, you don't look forward to being cured of.

Citizen Kane

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Old age Fear of death Death

Speaker

Mr. Bernstein

Actor

Everett Sloane

Source

Citizen Kane

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Citizen Kane. Directed by Orson Welles. RKO Radio Pictures/Mercury Productions, 1941.

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This war did not bear the characteristics of the previous conflicts among the European nations to which we were accustomed. To an ever increasing degree it began to be generally realized that the reasons for this conflict were no longer to be sought in the usual interests even if plausible of the various nations, but that in reality it was one of those elementary struggles which shaking the foundations of the world but once in a thousand years, introduce a new millennium.

Adolf Hitler

Speech to the Reichstag, April 26, 1942

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Speech to the Reichstag, April 26, 1942
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Speech
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Time
1942 1940s 20th century
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Hitler, Adolf. Speech to the Reichstag. 26 Apr. 1942, Kroll Opera House, Berlin, Germany.

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I'm too old for this shit!

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Medium
Film
Genre
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Language
English
Time
1987 1980s 20th century
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Lethal Weapon. Directed by Richard Donner, Warner Bros. Pictures/Silver Pictures, 1987.

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anaïs Nin

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Topic
Courage Living life to the fullest Life

Author

Anaïs Nin
Source
Journals of Anaïs Nin
Medium
Personal journal
Language
English
Time
1941 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Nin, Anaïs. "June, 1941." The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 3, 1939-1944, edited by Gunther Stuhlmann. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1969.

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Man, money ain’t got no owners. Only spenders.

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Omar Little
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Michael Kenneth Williams
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The Wire
Medium
TV program
Genre
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Time
2006 2000s 21st century
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"Refugees." The Wire, written by David Simon and Dennis Lehane and Ed Burns, directed by Jim McKay, season 4, episode 4, Blown Deadline Productions and Home Box Office, 2006.