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Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind... But we won't break.

Fred Rogers

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Topic

Resilience Support from others Support Relationships

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. 94.

Now, you're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

Donald Rumsfeld

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Topic

Europe Iraq War American politics

Speaker

Donald Rumsfeld

Medium

Press conference

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Rumsfeld, Donald. News conference. 22 Jan. 2003.

Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up.

Studs Terkel

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Topic

Hope Political progress Politics

Author

Studs Terkel

Source

Hope Dies Last

Genre

Historical literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Terkel, Studs. Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Difficult Times. New Press, 2003.

When I go home people'll ask me, "Hey Hoot, why do you do it man? Why, you some kinda war junkie?" I won't say a goddamn word. Why? They won't understand. They won't understand why we do it. They won't understand that it's about the man next to you, and that's it. That's all it is.

Black Hawk Down

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Topic

Brothers in war War

Speaker

Hoot

Actor

Eric Bana

Source

Black Hawk Down

Medium

Film

Genre

War (film) War

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Black Hawk Down. Directed by Ridley Scott, Scott Free Productions/Revolution Studios/Columbia Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 2001.

Nothing haunts like the things we don't say.

Mitch Albom

Have a Little Faith

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Topic

Regrets The road not taken

Author

Mitch Albom

Source

Have a Little Faith

Language

English

Time

2009 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Albom, Mitch. Have a Little Faith: A True Story. Hachette Books/Hyperion, 2009.

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

David Foster Wallace

2005 Kenyon College commencement address

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Topic

Nature of God Worship Atheism

Speaker

David Foster Wallace

Source

2005 Kenyon College commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wallace, David Foster. Commencement address at Kenyon College. Commencement. 21 May 2005, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, USA.

Current Citation

Wallace, David Foster. This is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion about Living a Compassionate Life. Little, Brown and Company, 2009.

Not everyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.

Ratatouille

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Topic

Artists

Speaker

Anton Ego

Actor

Peter O'Toole

Source

Ratatouille

Medium

Film

Genre

Animation (film) Comedy (film) Animation Comedy

Language

English

Time

2007 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Ratatouille. Directed by Brad Bird, Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures, 2007.

And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight—isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you're less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn't it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you've experienced before? You see things more clearly and you know that you're seeing them more clearly. And it comes to you that this is what it means to love life, this is all anybody who talks seriously about God is ever talking about. Moments like this.

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

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Topic

Inflection points

Author

Jonathan Franzen

Source

The Corrections

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Franzen, Jonathan. The Corrections. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

I have to believe in a world outside my own mind. I have to believe that my actions still have meaning, even if I can't remember them. I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. Do I believe the world's still there? Is it still out there? Yeah. We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are. I'm no different.

Memento

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Topic

The mind

Speaker

Leonard

Actor

Guy Pearce

Source

Memento

Medium

Film

Genre

Neo-noir Thriller (film) Thriller

Language

English

Time

2000 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Memento. Directed by Christopher Nolan, Summit Entertainment/Team Todd, 2000.

I thought you were incredibly brave. And I mean that in strictly the most clinical and professional sense possible, with no emotional, intimate, sexual, or any other undertones that you could possibly infer.

Step Brothers

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Topic

Courage Setting boundaries

Speaker

Denise

Actor

Andrea Savage

Source

Step Brothers

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

2008 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Step Brothers. Directed by Adam McKay, Columbia Pictures/Relativity Media/The Apatow Company/Mosaic Media Group/Gary Sanchez Productions, 2008.

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Topic

Memory

Author

Chuck Palahniuk

Source

Diary: A Novel

Medium

Novel

Genre

Horror Satire

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Palahniuk, Chuck. Diary. Doubleday, 2003.

Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle he does not lose himself.

Friday Night Lights

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Topic

Adversity Character Being a man

Speaker

Eric Taylor

Actor

Kyle Chandler

Source

Friday Night Lights

Medium

Speech TV program

Language

English

Time

2006 2000s 21st century

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Citation

"State." Friday Night Lights, written by Jason Katims and Patrick Massett and John Zinman, directed by Jeffrey Reiner, season 1, episode 22, Universal Television and Imagine Television, 2007.

Instead of looking at things, look between things.

John Baldessari

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Topic

Thinking outside the box Artistic development Art

Speaker

John Baldessari

Source

Art in America

Medium

Interview Magazine

Statement Type

Zen koan Advice

Language

English

Time

2009 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Baldessari, John. Interviewed by Karen Wright. Art in America, Oct. 2009.

You seek a great fortune, you three who are now in chains. You will find a fortune, though it will not be the fortune you seek. But first...first you must travel a long and difficult road, a road fraught with peril. Mm-hmm. You shall see thangs, wonderful to tell. You shall see a... a cow...on the roof of a cotton house, ha. And, oh, so many startlements. I cannot tell ya how long this road shall be, but fear not the obstacles in your path, for fate has vouchsafed your reward. Though the road may wind, yea, your hearts grow weary, still shall ye follow them, even unto your salvation.

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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Topic

Quest

Speaker

Blind Seer

Actor

Lee Weaver

Source

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy drama (film) Comedy drama

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

2000 2000s 21st century

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Citation

O Brother, Where Art Thou? Directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Touchstone Pictures/Universal Pictures/StudioCanal/Working Title Films/Blind Bard Pictures, 2000.

Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person... Think of the ripple effect that can be created when we nourish someone. One kind empathetic word has a wonderful way of turning into many.

Fred Rogers

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Topic

Supporting others Kindness Butterfly effect Interconnectedness of all people Support

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. 185.

Let me tell you something about these tattoos, okay. That is Buddhist, that is Nordic, that is Hindu, that's just gibberish. They are completely conflicting ideologies, and that does not make you a citizen of the world, it makes you full of shit!

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

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Topic

Tattoos

Speaker

Sarah Marshall

Actor

Kristen Bell

Source

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

2008 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Directed by Nick Stoller, Apatow Productions, 2008.

I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility, and murder.

Grizzly Man

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Topic

Nature of the universe The universe Cruel world

Speaker

Werner Herzog

Source

Grizzly Man

Medium

Film

Genre

Documentary (film)

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Grizzly Man. Directed by Werner Herzog, Discovery Docs/Real Big Production, 2005.

I have several walls in several rooms of my house covered with the snowstorm of rejections, but they didn't realize what a strong person I was, I persevered and wrote a thousand more dreadful short stories, which were rejected in turn.

Ray Bradbury

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Topic

Rejection Writing Perseverance

Author

Ray Bradbury

Source

Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life

Statement Type

Irony Joke

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bradbury, Ray. Quoted in Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life, edited by Barnaby Conrad and Monte Schultz. Writer's Digest Books, 2002.

The problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Danger of a Single Story

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Topic

Stereotypes

Speaker

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Source

The Danger of a Single Story

Medium

Speech

Genre

TED Talk

Language

English

Time

2009 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. “The Danger of a Single Story.” TED, July 2009, https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story/transcript?language=en.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

Naomi Klein

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Nature abhors a vacuum Demagoguery Populism Politics

Author

Naomi Klein

Source

The Guardian

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Klein, Naomi. "From Pots to Politics." The Guardian, 11 May 2003, www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/12/argentina.comment