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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

Charles Bukowski

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Topic

Adversity

Author

Charles Bukowski

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bukowski, Charles. How Is Your Heart. c. 1994.

We're adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you all know first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado, anybody want to see second prize? Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired.

Alec Baldwin

Glengarry Glen Ross

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Topic

Incentives Capitalism

Speaker

Blake

Actor

Alec Baldwin

Source

Glengarry Glen Ross

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Glengarry Glen Ross. Directed by James Foley, Zupnik Enterprises, 1992.

Value this time in your life kids, because this is the time in your life when you still have your choices, and it goes by so fast. When you're a teenager, you think you can do anything, and you do. Your twenties are a blur. Your thirties, you raise your family, you make a little money and you think to yourself, "What happened to my twenties?" Your forties, you grow a little pot belly you grow another chin. The music starts to get too loud and one of your old girlfriends from high school becomes a grandmother. Your fifties you have a minor surgery. You'll call it a procedure, but it's a surgery. Your sixties you'll have a major surgery, the music is still loud but it doesn't matter because you can't hear it anyway. Seventies, you and the wife retire to Fort Lauderdale, you start eating dinner at two o'clock in the afternoon, you have lunch around ten, breakfast the night before, you spend most of your time wandering around malls looking for the ultimate soft yogurt and muttering, "how come the kids don't call? How come the kids don't call?" The eighties, you'll have a major stroke, and you end up babbling to some Jamaican nurse who your wife can't stand but who you call mama. Any questions?

City Slickers

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Topic

Stages of life Aging Old age

Speaker

Mitch Robbins

Actor

Billy Crystal

Source

City Slickers

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Western (film) Comedy Western

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

City Slickers. Directed by Ron Underwood, Castle Rock Entertainment/Face Productions/Nelson Entertainment, 1991.

I've seen a human pyramid before. It was very unnecessary.

Mitch Hedberg

Strategic Grill Locations

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Topic

Meaninglessness

Speaker

Mitch Hedberg

Source

Strategic Grill Locations

Medium

Comedy album

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Statement Type

Joke

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hedberg, Mitch. Strategic Grill Locations. 7 Sept. 1999, The Laff Stop Comedy Club, Houston, Texas, USA.

My lucky number is 4 billion, that doesn't come in real handy when you're gambling…come on, 4 billion! Fuck, 7. Not even close.

Mitch Hedberg

Strategic Grill Locations

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Topic

Gambling Luck

Speaker

Mitch Hedberg

Source

Strategic Grill Locations

Medium

Comedy album

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Statement Type

Joke

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hedberg, Mitch. Strategic Grill Locations. 7 Sept. 1999, The Laff Stop Comedy Club, Houston, Texas, USA.

We got a dead man walking, here! Dead man walking! We got a dead man walking…

The Green Mile

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Topic

Inevitability of death Facing death Death

Speaker

Percy Wetmore

Actor

Doug Hutchison

Source

The Green Mile

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Green Mile. Directed by Frank Darabont, Castle Rock Entertainment/Darkwoods Productions, 1999.

Longing on a large scale is what makes history.

Don DeLillo

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Topic

Forces of history Desire

Author

Don DeLillo

Source

Underworld

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

DeLillo, Don. Underworld. Scribner, 1997, prologue.

If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker and you were walking down the sidewalk with him and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable.

Mitch Hedberg

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Mitch Hedberg

Source

Strategic Grill Locations

Medium

Comedy album

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hedberg, Mitch. Strategic Grill Locations. 7 Sept. 1999, The Laff Stop Comedy Club, Houston, Texas, USA.

Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them.

Charles J. Sykes

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Topic

Nerds

Author

Charles J. Sykes

Source

San Diego Union-Tribune

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Sykes, Charles J. San Diego Union-Tribune. 19 Sept. 1996.

"Beauty" is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West it is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Naomi Wolf

The Beauty Myth

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Topic

Patriarchy Beauty

Author

Naomi Wolf

Source

The Beauty Myth

Genre

Sociology

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women. Chatto & Windus, 1990.

You know you can't please all the people all the time, and last night all those people were at my show.

Mitch Hedberg

Comedy Central Presents

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Topic

Artist and audience

Speaker

Mitch Hedberg

Source

Comedy Central Presents

Medium

Comedy special

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hedberg, Mitch. Comedy Central Presents. Comedy Central, 5 Jan. 1999.

How about a positive LSD story, that would be newsworthy, don’t you think? Anybody think that? Just once to hear a positive LSD story; “Today a young man on acid…realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves…Here’s Tom with the weather.

Bill Hicks

Relentless

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Topic

Drugs

Speaker

Bill Hicks

Source

Relentless

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hicks, Bill. Relentless. July 1991, Centaur Theatre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

The best evidence we have that time travel is not possible, and never will be, is that we have not been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.

Stephen Hawking

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Topic

Time travel

Speaker

Stephen Hawking

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hawking, Stephen. "The Future of the Universe." Jan. 1991, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, UK. Lecture.

Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.

Jonathan Franzen

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Topic

The human condition Desire

Author

Jonathan Franzen

Source

Harper's Magazine

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Franzen, Jonathan. "Perchance to Dream: In the Age of Images, a Reason to Write Novels." Harper's Magazine, Apr. 1996.

Current Citation

Franzen, Jonathan. "Why Bother?" How to Be Alone. Picador, 2002.

I like a escalator because a escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. You would never see a "Escalator temporarily out of order" sign, just "Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience. We apologize for the fact that you can still get up there."

Mitch Hedberg

Strategic Grill Locations

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Mitch Hedberg

Source

Strategic Grill Locations

Medium

Comedy album

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Statement Type

Joke

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hedberg, Mitch. Strategic Grill Locations. 7 Sept. 1999, The Laff Stop Comedy Club, Houston, Texas, USA.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Jack Handey

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Topic

Trees

Author

Jack Handey

Statement Type

Joke

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Saturday Night Live, created by Lorne Michaels, season 17, episode 3, NBC, 12 Oct. 1991.

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

Mike Godwin

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Topic

The internet

Author

Mike Godwin

Source

Wired Magazine

Medium

Magazine

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Godwin, Mike. "Meme, Counter-Meme." Wired, 1 Oct. 1994.

From the earliest times, human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away. For the time being, our cities still shine through the night, and the fires still spread.

Max Sebald

The Rings of Saturn

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Topic

Civilization

Author

Max Sebald

Source

The Rings of Saturn

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Sebald, Winfried Georg. Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine englische Wallfahrt [The Rings of Saturn: An English Pilgrimage]. Eichborn, 1995, pt. 7.

I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.

Forrest Gump

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Topic

Love

Speaker

Forrest Gump

Actor

Tom Hanks

Source

Forrest Gump

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Forrest Gump. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, The Tisch Company, 1994.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Albus Dumbledore

Quoted in Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone, by J.K. Rowling

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Topic

Courage Friends and enemies

Speaker

Albus Dumbledore

Author

J.K. Rowling

Source

Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Bloomsbury, 1997, ch. 17.