Alright, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.

Sunset Boulevard

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Celebrity Delusion

Speaker

Norma Desmond

Actor

Gloria Swanson

Source

Sunset Boulevard

Medium

Film

Genre

Film noir Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

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Sunset Boulevard. Directed by Billy Wilder, Paramount Pictures, 1950.

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What is your aim in philosophy?-To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations

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Purpose of philosophy Philosophy

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Source
Philosophical Investigations
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1953 1950s 20th century
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Original Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophische Untersuchungen [Philosophical Investigations]. Suhrkamp, 1953, pt. 1.

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, et. al., edited by P. M. S. Hacker and Joachim Schulte. Wiley Blackwell, 2009, pt. 1.

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Only the tiniest fraction of mankind want freedom.
All the rest want someone to tell them they are free.

Irving Layton

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True freedom Delusion

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Irving Layton
Language
English
Time
1969 1960s 20th century
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Citation

Layton, Irving. "Aphs." The Whole Bloody Bird: Obs, Aphs & Pomes. McClelland & Stewart, 1969.

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Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind.

Gordon Gekko

Wall Street

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Greed Capitalism Progress Human nature
Speaker
Gordon Gekko
Actor
Michael Douglas
Source
Wall Street
Medium
Film
Genre
Drama (film) Drama
Language
English
Time
1987 1980s 20th century
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Wall Street. Directed by Oliver Stone, American Entertainment Partners/American Films, 1987.