Everyone has their reasons.

The Rules of the Game

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Topic

Justifications and rationales

Speaker

Octave

Actor

Jean Renoir

Source

The Rules of the Game

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Satire (film) Drama Satire

Language

French

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

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Citation

La règle du jeu [The Rules of the Game.] Directed by Jean Renoir, Nouvelle Édition Française, 1939.

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Who built the Thebes of the seven gates?
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Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?...
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Did the masons go?

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Great man theory of history Seven wonders of the world Workers History

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Bertolt Brecht
Source
Questions from a Worker Who Reads
Medium
Poem
Genre
Political literature
Statement Type
Question
Language
German
Time
1936 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Brecht, Bertolt. "Fragen eines lesenden Arbeiters [Questions of a Reading Worker]." Das Wort, 1936.

Another quote from 1939

Success is relative:
It is what we can make of the mess we have
made of things.

T.S. Eliot

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Success
Speaker
Agatha

Author

T.S. Eliot
Source
The Family Reunion
Medium
Play
Language
English
Time
1939 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Eliot, T. S. The Family Reunion. Performed by Michael Redgrave, Helen Haye, and Catherine Lacey. 1939, Westminster Theatre, London, England, UK, pt. 2, sc. 3.

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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Empathy Different perspectives
Speaker
Atticus Finch
Actor
Gregory Peck
Source
To Kill a Mockingbird
Medium
Film
Genre
Drama (film) Drama
Language
English
Time
1962 1960s 20th century
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To Kill a Mockingbird. Directed by Robert Mulligan, Brentwood Productions, 1962.

Another quote originally in French

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America

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Downsides of democracy Democracy

Author

Alexis de Tocqueville
Source
Democracy in America
Genre
Political literature
Language
French
Time
1840 1840s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 2, London: Saunders and Otley, 1840, sect. 2, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 2, sect. 2, ch. 2.