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Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Topic

Happiness Wealth Achievement Hard work

Speaker

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Source

First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin D. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1933, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin D. "First Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, March 4, 1933." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

No matter how a man alone ain't got no bloody fucking chance.

Ernest Hemingway

To Have and Have Not

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Topic

Man as social animal

Speaker

Harry Morgan

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Source

To Have and Have Not

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. To Have and Have Not. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937, ch. 23.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Albert Einstein

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Topic

Nature of the world Science The world

Author

Albert Einstein

Source

Physics and Reality The Journal of the Franklin Institute

Medium

Academic journal

Genre

Scientific literature

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Einstein, Albert. "Physics and Reality." The Journal of the Franklin Institute, Mar. 1936.

Current Citation

Einstein, Albert. "Physics and Reality." The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works. Penguin, 2008, ch. 13.

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Topic

New Deal American politics

Speaker

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Accepting the Presidential Nomination. The Democratic National Convention. 2 July 1932, Chicago, IL, USA.

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

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Topic

Freedom of thought Freedom

Author

Virginia Woolf

Source

A Room of One's Own

Medium

Essay

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1929 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 4.

Religion is illusion, and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Sigmund Freud

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

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Topic

Religion

Author

Sigmund Freud

Source

New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Freud, Sigmund. New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, translated by James Strachey. W. W. Norton & Company, 1990, lecture 35. Originally published as Neue Folge der Vorlesungen zur Einfuhrung in die Psychoanalyse [New Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis]. Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, 1933, lecture 35.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of every day thinking.

Albert Einstein

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Scientific method Science Common sense

Author

Albert Einstein

Source

Physics and Reality The Journal of the Franklin Institute

Medium

Academic journal

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Einstein, Albert. "Physics and Reality." The Journal of the Franklin Institute, Mar. 1936.

Current Citation

Einstein, Albert. "Physics and Reality." The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works. Penguin, 2008, ch. 13.

I never think of the future—it comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

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The future Being present The present

Speaker

Albert Einstein

Medium

Interview

Language

German

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Einstein, Albert. Quoted in "Clearfield Progress, Would Take Three Days to Make Simple Explanation of Theories, Says Einstein," by David P. Sentner, I. N. S. (International News Service) Correspondent. Quote Page 1, Column 1, Clearfield, Pennsylvania. 12 Dec. 1930.

The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes.

George Orwell

Down and Out in Paris and London

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Stars The night sky

Speaker

Bozo

Author

George Orwell

Source

Down and Out in Paris and London

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Orwell, George. Down and Out in Paris and London. Victor Gollancz, 1933, ch. 30.

Our Constitution is so simple, so practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by changes in emphasis and arrangement without loss of essential form.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Constitutional theory US Constitution American politics

Speaker

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Source

First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin D. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1933, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin D. "First Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, March 4, 1933." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

He loved the People just as much as he feared and detested Persons.

Sinclair Lewis

It Can't Happen Here

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Individual vs. the collective Misanthropy

Author

Sinclair Lewis

Source

It Can't Happen Here

Medium

Novel

Genre

Dystopian fiction

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. It Can't Happen Here. Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1935, ch. 35.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Winston Churchill

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Courage

Author

Winston Churchill

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Unlucky Alfonso." Collier’s, 27 June 1931.

At the still point, there the dance is.

T.S. Eliot

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Topic

Stillness Dancing

Author

T.S. Eliot

Source

Burnt Norton Four Quartets

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Eliot, T. S. “Burnt Norton.” Collected Poems 1909–1935. Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1936, pt. 2.

We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them.

Bilbo Baggins

Quoted in The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Topic

Adventure

Speaker

Bilbo Baggins

Author

J.R.R. Tolkien

Source

The Hobbit

Medium

Novel

Genre

Fantasy

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Tolkiein, J.R.R. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. George Allen & Unwin, 1937, ch. 1.

Yet we have gone on living,
Living and partly living.

T.S. Eliot

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Carrying on Life

Speaker

Chorus

Author

T.S. Eliot

Source

Murder in the Cathedral

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Eliot, T. S. Murder in the Cathedral. 1935, Chapter House, Canterbury Cathedral, pt. 1.

In every land there are always at work forces that drive men apart and forces that draw men together. In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up, or else we all go down, as one people.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Topic

Individualism

Speaker

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1937, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Second Inaugral Address: Washington, DC, January 20, 1937." Great Speeches, edited by John Grafton. Dover, 1999.

Will you marry me? Did he leave you any money? Answer the second question first.

Duck Soup

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Gold diggers

Speaker

Rufus T. Firefly

Actor

Groucho Marx

Source

Duck Soup

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Duck Soup. Directed by Leo McCarey. Paramount Pictures Studio, 1933.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

Tira

I'm No Angel

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Topic

Promiscuity

Speaker

Tira

Actor

Mae West

Source

I'm No Angel

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic comedy (film) Romantic comedy

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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Citation

I'm No Angel. Directed by Wesley Ruggles, Paramount Pictures, 1933.

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.

Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Topic

Dreams The human condition

Author

Zora Neale Hurston

Source

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937, ch. 1.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.

Zora Neale Hurston

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Topic

Nature of God

Author

Zora Neale Hurston

Source

Tell My Horse

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hurston, Zora Neale. Tell My Horse. J.B. Lippincott Co., 1938, ch. 15.