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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar

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Topic

Courage Cowardice Death

Speaker

Caesar

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Julius Caesar

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play) Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1599 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, 1599, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2 sc. 2.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Julius Caesar." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 2.

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.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Marble Faun

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Topic

Passage of time Effects of time Time

Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Source

The Marble Faun

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1860 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni. Vol. 2, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860, ch. 24.

Current Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun, edited by Susan Manning. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 24.

If he had lost Walter Cronkite he had lost Mr. Average Citizen.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Topic

Vietnam War Media American politics

Speaker

Lyndon B. Johnson

Language

English

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Johnson, Lyndon B. Comment to his press secretary George Christian. 27 Feb. 1968, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Johnson, Lyndon B. Quoted in The Powers That Be, by David Halberstam. University of Illinois Press, 2000, pt. 3.

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.

Talk or dance, but, don't do both things at the same time.

Gilda

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Topic

Dancing

Speaker

Gilda

Actor

Rita Hayworth

Source

Gilda

Medium

Film

Genre

Film noir Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Gilda. Directed by Charles Vidor, Columbia Pictures, 1946.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita

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Author

Vladimir Nabokov

Source

Lolita

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Opening lines Assonance

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita. Olympia Press, 1955, ch. 1.

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

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Topic

Limits of language

Author

Victor Hugo

Source

William Shakespeare

Language

French

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hugo, Victor. William Shakespeare. Paris: Lacroix & Verboeckhoven & Cie, 1864, pt. 1, bk. 2, ch. 4.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Molly Bawn

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Topic

Preferences Beauty Relativism

Speaker

Marcia

Author

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Source

Molly Bawn

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1878 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Hungerford, Margaret Wolfe. Molly Bawn. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz/Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1878.

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Jesus

Matthew 26:26-28

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Topic

Communion The Lord's Supper

Speaker

Jesus

Source

Gospel of Matthew The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

60 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 26:26-28).

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

Dead Poets Society

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Topic

Making a difference Changing the world

Speaker

John Keating

Actor

Robin Williams

Source

Dead Poets Society

Medium

Film

Genre

Teen (film) Drama (film) Teen Drama

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Dead Poets Society. Directed by Peter Weir, Touchstone Pictures/Silver Screen Partners IV, 1989.

There are no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic

Travel

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

The Silverado Squatters

Genre

Autobiography and memoir Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Silverado Squatters. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883, pt. 2, ch. 3.

Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Tennyson

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Topic

Lost love Broken heart Love

Author

Alfred Tennyson

Source

In Memoriam A.H.H.

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1850 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. In Memoriam A.H.H. London: Edward Moxon, 1850, pt. 27, st. 4.

Current Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "In Memoriam A.H.H." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 27, st. 4.

For I am the Lord, I change not.

Malachi 3:6

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Topic

Nature of God God

Source

Malachi The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

424 BC 420s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Malachi 3:6).

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Winston Churchill

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Topic

Cold War Soviet Union

Speaker

Winston Churchill

Source

Sinews of Peace

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Sinews of Peace." 5 Mar. 1946, Westminster College, Fulton, MO, USA. Speech.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston. "The Soviet Danger: The Iron Curtain." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.

This right of privacy...is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

Byron White

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Topic

Abortion Right to privacy Constitutional law

Author

Byron White

Medium

Supreme Court opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

White, Byron. United States, Supreme Court. Roe v. Wade. United States Reports, vol. 410, 22 Jan. 1973, pp. 113-. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/410/113/.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Franz Kafka

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Topic

Self-discovery Power of literature Books

Author

Franz Kafka

Source

Letters of Franz Kafka

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

German

Time

1904 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kafka, Franz. Letter to Oskar Pollak. 27 Jan. 1904.

Current Citation

Kafka, Franz. Franz Kafka: Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors, translated by Richard and Clara Winston. Schocken, 1990.

I see dead people.

The Sixth Sense

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Topic

Ghosts

Speaker

Cole Sear

Actor

Haley Joel Osment

Source

The Sixth Sense

Medium

Film

Genre

Psychological thriller (film) Thriller (film) Psychological thriller Thriller

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Sixth Sense. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Hollywood Pictures/The Kennedy/Marshall Company/Spyglass Entertainment/Barry Mendel Productions, 1999.

E.T. Phone home.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

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Topic

Home

Speaker

E.T.

Actor

Pat Welsh

Source

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Medium

Film

Genre

Science fiction (film) Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment, 1982.

I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

Apocalypse Now

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Topic

Vietnam War Napalm War

Speaker

Bill Killgore

Actor

Robert Duvall

Source

Apocalypse Now

Medium

Film

Genre

Psychological drama (film) War (film) Psychological drama War

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Apocolypse Now. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Omni Zoetrope, 1979.