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That's the part of it I always liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling.

Dashiell Hammett

Black Mask

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Topic

Adaptability

Speaker

Sam Spade

Author

Dashiell Hammett

Source

The Maltese Falcon Black Mask

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hammett, Dashiell. "The Maltese Falcon." Black Mask, Sept. 1929 - Jan. 1930. Serial.

Current Citation

Hammett, Dashiell. "The Maltese Falcon." The Maltese Falcon, The Thin Man, Red Harvest. Everyman's Library, 2000, ch. 7.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

James Joyce

The Egoist

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Topic

Society and the individual Authenticity Self-expression

Author

James Joyce

Source

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Egoist

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Modernist literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man." The Egoist. 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915. Serial.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch. 5.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Woody Allen

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Topic

Existence of God God

Author

Woody Allen

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Magazine

Statement Type

Joke

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Allen, Woody. "Selections from the Allen Notebooks." New Yorker, 5 Nov. 1973.

Progress may have been all right once, but it went on too long.

Ogden Nash

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Topic

Conservatism Progress

Author

Ogden Nash

Source

Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation is Beater Than Yours. The New Yorker

Medium

Poem Magazine

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Nash, Ogden. "Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation is Beater Than Yours." The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 1959.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

Quoted in Cosmopolitan

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Topic

Ideas Creativity

Speaker

John Steinbeck

Source

Cosmopolitan

Medium

Interview Magazine

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1947 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Steinbeck, John. "Interview with a Best-Selling Author: John Steinbeck." Interviewed by Robert van Gelder. Cosmopolitan, Apr. 1947.

Life is a game... And you keep score with dollars.

Ted Turner

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Topic

Money Nature of life Life

Speaker

Ted Turner

Source

Playboy Magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Turner, Ted. "Playboy Interview: Ted Turner." Interviewed by Peter Ross Range. Playboy Magazine, Aug. 1978.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

Joseph Beuys

Quoted in Artforum

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Topic

Teaching Art

Speaker

Joseph Beuys

Source

Artforum

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

German

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Beuys, Joseph. "An Interview with Joseph Beuys." Interviewed by Willoughby Sharp. Artforum, Dec. 1969.

Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

Iris Murdoch

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Topic

Love Vulnerability

Author

Iris Murdoch

Source

Chicago Review

Medium

Magazine

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Murdoch, Iris. "The Sublime and the Good." Chicago Review, vol. 13, no. 3, autumn 1959.

Mathematics takes us still further from what is human, into the region of absolute necessity, to which only the actual world, but every possible world, must conform.

Bertrand Russell

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Topic

Mathematics Laws of physics

Author

Bertrand Russell

Source

The Study of Mathematics The New Quarterly

Medium

Essay Magazine

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Russell, Bertrand. "The Study of Mathematics." The New Quarterly, Nov. 1907.

The whole human memory can be, and probably in a short time will be, made accessible to every individual.

H.G. Wells

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Topic

The internet Man and machine Technological progress

Author

H.G. Wells

Source

Harper's Magazine

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wells, H. G. "The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia." Harper's Magazine, Apr. 1937.

Tragedy plus time equals comedy.

Steve Allen

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Topic

Comedy Humor

Author

Steve Allen

Source

Cosmopolitan

Medium

Magazine

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Allen, Steve. "Steve Allen's Almanac." Cosmopolitan Magazine, Feb. 1957.

To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

Bernard Baruch

Quoted in Newsweek

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Topic

Old age Perspective Relativism

Speaker

Bernard Baruch

Source

Newsweek

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Baruch, Bernard M. Quoted in Newsweek. 29 Aug. 1955.

Now the art world has become the art market.

Eric Fischl

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Topic

Art and money Art market Art

Speaker

Eric Fischl

Source

Brooklyn Rail

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Fischl, Eric. Public conversation between Eric Fischl and Robert Berlind. 19 Mar. 2014, National Academy, New York, NY, USA.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Jim Morrison

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Topic

Nihilism Rebellion Freedom

Speaker

Jim Morrison

Source

Time

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Morrison, Jim. Quoted in "Pop Music: Swimming to the Moon." Time Magazine, 24 Nov. 1967.

That Calvinistic sense of Innate Depravity and Original Sin, from whose visitations, in some shape or other, no deeply thinking mind is always and wholly free.

Herman Melville

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Topic

Original sin Human nature

Author

Herman Melville

Source

Hawthorne and His Mosses The Literary World

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1850 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Melville, Herman. "Hawthorne and His Mosses." The Literary World. New York: Osgood and Company, 1850.

Current Citation

Melville, Herman. "Hawthorne and His Mosses." Tales, Poems, and Other Writings. Modern Library, 2002.

There is probably no sensitive heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied at one time or another with his latent homosexuality.

Norman Mailer

The Homosexual Villain

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Topic

Sexuality

Author

Norman Mailer

Source

The Homosexual Villain One Magazine

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mailer, Norman. "The Homosexual Villain." Advertisements for Myself. Harvard University Press, 1959. Originally published in One Magazine, Jan. 1955.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

E.B. White

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Topic

Nature of democracy Democracy

Author

E.B. White

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Magazine

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

White, E. B. "The Meaning of Democracy." The New Yorker, 3 July 1943.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance—these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

Isaiah Berlin

Foreign Affairs

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Topic

Motivation

Author

Isaiah Berlin

Source

Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century Foreign Affairs

Medium

Essay Magazine

Genre

Philosophical literature Political literature

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Berlin, Isaiah. "Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century." Foreign Affairs, Vol. 28, No. 3, Apr. 1950.

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

Mistinguett

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Topic

Kisses

Speaker

Mistinguett

Source

Theatre Arts

Medium

Magazine

Language

French

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Mistinguett. Quoted in "Limelights and Footlights." Written by Hedy Clark. Theatre Arts, 1955.

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.

Bertrand Russell

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Topic

Work Social hierarchy

Author

Bertrand Russell

Source

In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays Harper's Magazine

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Russell, Bertrand. "In Praise of Idleness." In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays. George Allen & Unwin, 1935. Originally published in Harper's Magazine, Oct. 1932.