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If he had lost Walter Cronkite he had lost Mr. Average Citizen.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Topic

Vietnam War Media American politics

Speaker

Lyndon B. Johnson

Language

English

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Johnson, Lyndon B. Comment to his press secretary George Christian. 27 Feb. 1968, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Johnson, Lyndon B. Quoted in The Powers That Be, by David Halberstam. University of Illinois Press, 2000, pt. 3.

If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.

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Topic

Activism Political progress Social progress Progress

Speaker

Frederick Douglass

Source

West India Emancipation

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1857 1850s 19th century

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Citation

Douglass, Frederick. "West India Emancipation." 3 Aug. 1857, Canandaigua, NY, USA.

Talk or dance, but, don't do both things at the same time.

Gilda

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Topic

Dancing

Speaker

Gilda

Actor

Rita Hayworth

Source

Gilda

Medium

Film

Genre

Film noir Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Gilda. Directed by Charles Vidor, Columbia Pictures, 1946.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita

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Author

Vladimir Nabokov

Source

Lolita

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Opening lines Assonance

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita. Olympia Press, 1955, ch. 1.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Molly Bawn

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Topic

Preferences Beauty Relativism

Speaker

Marcia

Author

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Source

Molly Bawn

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1878 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Hungerford, Margaret Wolfe. Molly Bawn. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz/Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1878.

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?

Dead Poets Society

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Topic

Making a difference Changing the world

Speaker

John Keating

Actor

Robin Williams

Source

Dead Poets Society

Medium

Film

Genre

Teen (film) Drama (film) Teen Drama

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Dead Poets Society. Directed by Peter Weir, Touchstone Pictures/Silver Screen Partners IV, 1989.

There are no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic

Travel

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

The Silverado Squatters

Genre

Autobiography and memoir Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Silverado Squatters. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883, pt. 2, ch. 3.

Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Tennyson

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Topic

Lost love Broken heart Love

Author

Alfred Tennyson

Source

In Memoriam A.H.H.

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1850 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. In Memoriam A.H.H. London: Edward Moxon, 1850, pt. 27, st. 4.

Current Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "In Memoriam A.H.H." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 27, st. 4.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Winston Churchill

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Topic

Cold War Soviet Union

Speaker

Winston Churchill

Source

Sinews of Peace

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Churchill, Winston. "Sinews of Peace." 5 Mar. 1946, Westminster College, Fulton, MO, USA. Speech.

Current Citation

Churchill, Winston. "The Soviet Danger: The Iron Curtain." Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat: The Great Speeches, edited by David Cannadine. Penguin Classics, 2007.

This right of privacy...is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

Byron White

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Topic

Abortion Right to privacy Constitutional law

Author

Byron White

Medium

Supreme Court opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

White, Byron. United States, Supreme Court. Roe v. Wade. United States Reports, vol. 410, 22 Jan. 1973, pp. 113-. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/410/113/.

I see dead people.

The Sixth Sense

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Topic

Ghosts

Speaker

Cole Sear

Actor

Haley Joel Osment

Source

The Sixth Sense

Medium

Film

Genre

Psychological thriller (film) Thriller (film) Psychological thriller Thriller

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Sixth Sense. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Hollywood Pictures/The Kennedy/Marshall Company/Spyglass Entertainment/Barry Mendel Productions, 1999.

E.T. Phone home.

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

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Topic

Home

Speaker

E.T.

Actor

Pat Welsh

Source

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Medium

Film

Genre

Science fiction (film) Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment, 1982.

I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

Apocalypse Now

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Topic

Vietnam War Napalm War

Speaker

Bill Killgore

Actor

Robert Duvall

Source

Apocalypse Now

Medium

Film

Genre

Psychological drama (film) War (film) Psychological drama War

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Apocolypse Now. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Omni Zoetrope, 1979.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

First Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Topic

America as example American politics Political theory

Speaker

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Source

First Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Eisenhower, Dwight D. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1953, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

William Faulkner

Requiem for a Nun

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Topic

Effects of the past Past and present The past

Speaker

Stevens

Author

William Faulkner

Source

Requiem for a Nun

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Faulkner, William. Requiem for a Nun. Random House, 1951.

Current Citation

Faulkner, William. Requiem for a Nun. Vintage, 2012.

I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain.

Singin' in the Rain

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Topic

Rain Optimism

Speaker

Don Lockwood

Actor

Gene Kelly

Source

Singin' in the Rain

Medium

Song Film

Genre

Musical (film) Romantic comedy (film) Musical Romantic comedy

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

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Citation

"Singin' in the Rain." Singin' in the Rain. Directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, performed by Gene Kelly, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1952.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Woody Allen

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Topic

How to succeed Success

Speaker

Woody Allen

Source

The New York Times

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Allen, Woody. Quoted in "He's Woody Allen's 1‐1‐Silent Partner." Written by Susan Braudy. The New York Times, 21 Aug. 1977.

Political language—and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists—is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

George Orwell

Politics and the English Language

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Topic

Politics and lies Propaganda Politics

Author

George Orwell

Source

Politics and the English Language

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." Horizon, Apr. 1946, vol. 13, issue 76, pp. 252-265.

Current Citation

Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 4: In Front of Your Nose 1945-1950, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 1999, no. 38.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

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Topic

Spending time Days How we live Life

Author

Annie Dillard

Source

The Writing Life

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Dillard, Annie. The Writing Life. Harper & Row, 1989.

There lives not three good men unhanged in England, and one of them is fat and grows old.

William Shakespeare

Henry IV, Part 1

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England

Speaker

Falstaff

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Henry IV, Part 1

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play)

Language

English

Time

1597 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Henry IV, Part 1. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1597, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 4.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The First Part of Henry the Fourth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, 2015, act 2, sc. 4.