21st century

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I want to make work so people can be moved by a sense of the possible.

Zhang Huan

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Topic

Purpose of art Artist and audience Art

Speaker

Zhang Huan

Medium

Interview

Language

Chinese

Time

2000 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Huan, Zheng. "Interview with Zhang Huan." Interviewed by Roselee Goldberg. Pilgrimage to Santiago, 2000.

Can I do something in my lifetime that can help change the way we are.... Can I help in a little tiny fraction, make it better here?

Maya Lin

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Topic

Changing the world Progress

Speaker

Maya Lin

Source

NEA Arts Magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Lin, Maya. Interviewed by Rebecca Gross. NEA Arts Magazine, no. 4, 2011, www.arts.gov/stories/magazine/2011/4/what-innovation/maya-lin

We have to begin to have a conversation that incorporates a vision of love with a vision of outrage.

Ruby Sales

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Topic

Anger in politics Anger Politics

Speaker

Ruby Sales

Source

On Being

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2016 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Sales, Ruby. "Where Does It Hurt?" Interviewed by Krista Tippett. On Being. WNYC, 15 Sept 2016.

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.

Stephen King

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Topic

Books

Speaker

Stephen King

Source

Entertainment Weekly

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

2007 2000s 21st century

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Citation

King, Steven. "Steven King'd Most Memorable Books of 2007." Entertainment Weekly, 21 Dec. 2007.

Statements, indictments, bills are circulated, shuffled between judges, prosecutors, the Attorney General, the Lord Chancellor’s office; each step in the process clear, logical, and designed to create corpses by due process of law.

Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies

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Topic

Legal system Law

Author

Hilary Mantel

Source

Bring Up the Bodies

Medium

Novel

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

2012 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies. Fourth Estate/Henry Holt and Co., 2012.

We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all.

Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

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Topic

Mortality Loss The human condition

Author

Joan Didion

Source

The Year of Magical Thinking

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Didion, Joan. The Year of Magical Thinking. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005, ch. 17.

If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what "good" parenting means. It's part of being human to fall short of that total acceptance—and often far short. But one of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness.

Fred Rogers

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Topic

Self-acceptance Accepting others Acceptance Parenting

Author

Fred Rogers

Source

The World According to Mister Rogers

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 56.

It's worth remembering this: freedom of expression sustains all the other freedoms we enjoy.

Ian McEwan

Read this speech at dickinson.edu

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Topic

Freedom of speech and expression Political theory Politics Freedom

Speaker

Ian McEwan

Source

2015 Dickson College commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Language

English

Time

2015 2010s 21st century

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Citation

McEwan, Ian. Commencement address. Commencement ceremony. 17 May 2015, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, USA.

Things get passed around so easily on the internet. And fact becomes fiction and fiction becomes fact, without anyone stepping in to arbitrate and say, what are your sources?

Hilary Mantel

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Topic

Fake news The internet Truth vs. fiction Truth

Speaker

Hilary Mantel

Source

Art of Fiction interview Paris Review

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

2015 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Mantel, Hilary. Quoted in "The Art of Fiction No. 226." Interviewed by Mona Simpson. Paris Review, no. 212, Spring 2015, www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6360/art-of-fiction-no-226-hilary-mantel.

Mother Nature always bats last and she always bats 1000.

Rob Watson

Quoted in The New York Times

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Topic

Environmental destruction Nature

Speaker

Rob Watson

Source

The New York Times

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

2010 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Watson, Rob. Quoted in "We're Gonna Be Sorry." Written by Thomas L. Friedman. The New York Times, 24 July 2010.

Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a "cowardly" attack on "civilization" or "liberty" or "humanity" or "the free world" but an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions?

Susan Sontag

On the 9/11 attacks.

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Topic

September 11th Terrorism International politics Politics

Author

Susan Sontag

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Sontag, Susan. "The Talk of the Town: Tuesday, and After." The New Yorker, 24 Sept. 2001. www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/09/24/tuesday-and-after-talk-of-the-town

Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.

John Paul Stevens

Bush v. Gore

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Topic

Rule of law 2000 Presidential election American politics Politics

Author

John Paul Stevens

Source

Bush v. Gore

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Dissenting opinion Legal writing

Language

English

Time

2000 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Stevens, John. Dissenting Opinion. Bush, et al. v. Gore, et al. United States Reports, vol. 531, 12 Dec. 2000, pp. 123-129. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/531/98/.

In reality there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

David Foster Wallace

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Topic

Civic duty Voting Politics

Author

David Foster Wallace

Source

David Foster Wallace on John McCain: 'The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

2000 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Wallace, David Foster. "David Foster Wallace on John McCain: 'The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub.'" Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2000.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

Douglas Adams

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Topic

Downsides of technology Technology

Author

Douglas Adams

Source

Little Dongly Things The Salmon of Doubt

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Adams, Douglas. "Little Dongly Things." The Salmon of Doubt. William Heinemann/Pocket Books, 2002.

I worry that patriotism run amok will trample the very values that the country seeks to defend.

Dan Rather

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Topic

Downsides of patriotism Patriotism

Speaker

Dan Rather

Source

BBC

Medium

TV program

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Rather, Dan. "The Problem with Patriotism." Bring 'Em On: Media and Politics in the Iraq War. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004.

I love you... That is what they were all saying down their phones, from the hijacked planes and the burning towers. There is only love, and then oblivion. Love was all they had to set against the hatred of their murderers.

Ian McEwan

On the last messages received from those trapped in the Twin Towers on 9/11.

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Topic

September 11th Terrorism

Author

Ian McEwan

Source

The Guardian

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Citation

McEwan, Ian. "Love and then Oblivion. Love was all they had against their murderers." The Guardian, 15 Sept. 2001.

This will be a campaign unlike any other in history. A campaign characterized by shock, by surprise, by flexibility, by the employment of precise munitions on a scale never before seen, and by the application of overwhelming force.

Tommy Franks

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Topic

Iraq War

Speaker

Tommy Franks

Medium

Press conference

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Franks, Tommy. Briefing in Qatar. 22 Mar. 2003, Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar.

Learning that color is a fiction of light is one of the primary shocks of growing up: that this hitherto deeply physical thing is just a reflection and that nothing can keep its color under the cover of darkness, are monstrous things to understand, even for my adult mind.

Tacita Dean

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Topic

Light and color Light Color Illusions Perception

Speaker

Tacita Dean

Source

Colour: Documents of Contemporary Art

Language

English

Time

21st century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Dean, Tacita. Colour: Documents of Contemporary Art, edited by David Batchelor. MIT Press, 2008, p. 235.