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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Counterfactual history

Speaker

Clarence

Actor

Henry Travers

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

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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.

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Time
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Citation

The Third Man. Directed by Carol Reed, London Films, 1949.

Another quote from 1946

Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

Politics and the English Language

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Politics and lies Propaganda Politics

Author

George Orwell
Source
Politics and the English Language
Medium
Essay
Genre
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Language
English
Time
1946 1940s 20th century
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Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." Horizon, Apr. 1946, vol. 13, issue 76, pp. 252-265.

Current Citation

Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 4: In Front of Your Nose 1945-1950, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 1999, no. 38.

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Hello. My name's Forrest, Forrest Gump.

Forrest Gump

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Forrest Gump
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Tom Hanks
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Forrest Gump
Medium
Film
Genre
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Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
1994 1990s 20th century
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Forrest Gump. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, The Tisch Company, 1994.