I have to remind myself that some birds aren’t meant to be caged.

Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

The Shawshank Redemption

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Topic

Confinement Prison Freedom

Speaker

Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding

Actor

Morgan Freeman

Source

The Shawshank Redemption

Medium

Film

Genre

Prison drama (film) Drama (film) Prison drama Drama

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

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Citation

The Shawshank Redemption. Directed by Frank Darabont, Castle Rock Entertainment, 1994.

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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

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Topic
Book burning Censorship Freedom of speech and expression Freedom Totalitarianism

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Heinrich Heine
Source
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Genre
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Time
1821 1820s 19th century
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Heine, Heinrich. Almansor. 1821.

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I'm not a smart man, but I know what love is.

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Forrest Gump
Actor
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Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Forrest Gump. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, The Tisch Company, 1994.

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The policy of letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is designed to promote the flourishing of the arts and the progress of science; it is designed to enable a socialist culture to thrive in our land.

Mao Zedong

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Topic
Battle of ideas
Speaker
Mao Zedong
Source
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
Chinese
Time
1957 1950s 20th century
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Citation

Zedong, Mao. "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People." Eleventh Session (Enlarged) of the Supreme State Conference. 27 Feb. 1957, Beijing, China.