We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Bill Wilson

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Topic

Alcoholism Addiction Alcohol

Author

Bill Wilson

Source

Alcoholics Anonymous

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

From

United States

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wilson, Bill. Alcoholics Anoymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism. Works Publishing Co., 1939, ch. 5.

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Where is the wisdom we have lost in
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Where is the knowledge we have lost in
information?

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Topic
Wisdom Knowledge Information
Speaker
Chorus

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T.S. Eliot
Source
The Rock
Medium
Play
Language
English
Time
1934 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Eliot, T. S. The Rock. 1934, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, England, UK, pt. 1.

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Alcohol is like love...The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

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Topic
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Terry Lennox

Author

Raymond Chandler
Source
The Long Goodbye
Medium
Novel
Genre
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Language
English
Time
1953 1950s 29th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Chandler, Raymond. The Long Goodbye. Hamish Hamilton/Houghton Mifflin, 1953, ch. 4.

Another quote from 1939

They lived und laughed ant loved end left.

James Joyce

Finnegans Wake

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Topic
Looking back Life
Speaker
Jute

Author

James Joyce
Source
Finnegans Wake
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Statement Type
Epitaph
Language
English
Time
1939 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Faber and Faber, 1939.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. Finnegans Wake. Wordsworth, 2012.