Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee!

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Topic

Boxing

Speaker

Muhammad Ali

Source

CBS

Medium

Interview

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Boxer Athlete

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Ali, Muhammad. Interviewed by Bob Halloran, CBS, c. 25 Feb. 1964.

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I ain’t got no quarrel with those Vietcong.

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Topic
Vietnam War
Speaker
Muhammad Ali
Medium
Press conference
Language
English
Time
1967 1960s 20th century
Authentication Score 2
Citation

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Our noise for some seconds passed beyond excitement into a kind of immense open anguish, a wailing, a cry to be saved. But immortality is nontransferable. The papers said that the others players, and even the umpires on the field, begged him to come out and acknowledge us in some way, but he refused. Gods do not answer letters.

John Updike

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Topic
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Speaker
On Ted Williams's final game at Fenway Park.

Author

John Updike
Source
Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu The New Yorker
Medium
Magazine
Language
English
Time
1960 1960s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Updike, John. "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu." New Yorker, 22 Oct. 1960.

Current Citation

Updike, John. Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu. Library of America, 2010.

Another quote of the following type Metaphor, analogy and simile

If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

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Topic
Activism Political progress Social progress Progress
Speaker
Frederick Douglass
Source
West India Emancipation
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
English
Time
1857 1850s 19th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Douglass, Frederick. "West India Emancipation." 3 Aug. 1857, Canandaigua, NY, USA.