Ah, youth is wasted on the wrong people.

It's a Wonderful Life

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Youth

Speaker

Man on Porch

Actor

Dick Elliott

Source

It's a Wonderful Life

Medium

Film

Genre

Christmas (film) Drama (film) Christmas Drama

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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It's a Wonderful Life. Directed by Frank Capra, Liberty Films, 1946.

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Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that.

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Casablanca

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Insignificance of the individual
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Rick Blaine
Actor
Humphrey Bogart
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Casablanca
Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
1942 1940s 20th century
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Casablanca. Directed by Michael Curtiz, Warner Bros. Pictures, 1942.

Another quote about Youth

The deepest definition of Youth is, Life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred North Whitehead

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Youth

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Alfred North Whitehead
Source
Adventures of Ideas
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
English
Time
1933 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Whitehead, Alfred North. Adventures of Ideas. The Macmillan Company/Simon and Schuster, 1933, ch. 20, sec. 5.

Another quote from 1946

How simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea... All that is required to feel that here and now is happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba the Greek

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The little things Happiness

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Nikos Kazantzakis
Source
Zorba the Greek
Medium
Novel
Language
Greek
Time
1946 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Kazantzakis, Nikos. Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Life and State of Alexis Zorba]. Athens: Dimitrakou, 1946, ch. 7.

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Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek, translated by Peter Bien. Simon & Schuster, 2014, ch. 7.

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Whatever happened to Gary Cooper, the strong silent type?

Tony Soprano

The Sopranos

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Masculinity
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Tony Soprano
Actor
James Gandolfini
Source
The Sopranos
Medium
TV program
Genre
Crime (TV) Drama (TV) Crime Drama
Language
English
Time
2002 2000s 21st century
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Citation

"The Strong, Silent Type." The Sopranos, written by David Chase and Terence Winter and Robin Green, directed by Alan Taylor, season 4, episode 10, Chase Films and Home Box Office, 2002.