You’ve been given a great gift, George, a chance to see what the world would be like without you.

It's a Wonderful Life

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Topic

Counterfactual history

Speaker

Clarence

Actor

Henry Travers

Source

It's a Wonderful Life

Medium

Film

Genre

Christmas (film) Drama (film) Christmas Drama

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

It's a Wonderful Life. Directed by Frank Capra, Liberty Films, 1946.

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I can't prove you are a Communist. But when I see a bird that quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, has feathers and webbed feet and associates with ducks-I'm certainly going to assume that he is a duck.

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Emil Mazey
Language
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Time
1946 1940s 20th century
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Citation

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Source
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Medium
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Language
Greek
Time
1946 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Kazantzakis, Nikos. Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Life and State of Alexis Zorba]. Athens: Dimitrakou, 1946, ch. 7.

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Medium
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Genre
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"Lessons." The Wire, written by David Simon and Ed Burns, directed by Gloria Muzio, season 1, episode 8, Blown Deadline Productions and Home Box Office, 2002.