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We haven't found any smoking guns.

Hans Blix

Regarding inspections for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

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Topic

Weapons of mass destruction Iraq War

Author

Hans Blix

Source

Newsweek

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Blix, Hans. "Blix: No 'Smoking Guns' in Iraq." The Guardian, 9 Jan 2003. Originally a news conference. 9 Jan. 2003, United Nations Headquarters, New York City, NY, USA.

I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.

Claes Oldenburg

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Topic

Purpose of art Art

Author

Claes Oldenburg

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Oldenburg, Claes. Statement for exhibition catalogue called Environments, Situations, Spaces. c. 1961, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York City, NY, USA.

The treatment of the Negro is America's greatest and most conspicuous scandal.

Gunnar Myrdal

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Topic

Race relations

Author

Gunnar Myrdal

Source

An American Dilemma

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Myrdal, Gunnar. An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. Vol. 2, Harper & Brothers, 1944, ch. 45, sect. 9.

The erotic or the sexual is the root of "art"; its first impulse.

Claes Oldenburg

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Topic

Sex Art

Speaker

Claes Oldenburg

Language

English

Time

20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Oldenburg, Claes and Germano Celant. Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology. Guggenheim Museum Publications, 1995, p. 13.