Why can't a woman be more like a man?
Men are so honest, so thoroughly square;
Eternally noble, historically fair;
Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat.
Why can't a woman be like that?

Professor Henry Higgins

My Fair Lady

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Topic

Men and women Men Women

Speaker

Professor Henry Higgins

Actor

Rex Harrison

Source

A Hymn to Him My Fair Lady

Medium

Song Film

Genre

Musical comedy (film) Musical (film) Musical comedy Musical

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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Citation

"A Hymn to Him." My Fair Lady. Directed by George Cuko, performed by Rex Smith, Warner Bros., 1964.

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Another quote from the 1960s

It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us—the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

Hannah Arendt

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Topic
Nature of evil Evil The Holocaust

Author

Hannah Arendt
Source
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil The New Yorker
Medium
Essay Magazine
Genre
Political literature Historical literature
Language
English
Time
1963 1960s 20th century
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Arendt, Hanna. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Viking Press, 1963. Originally published by The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 1963.

Another quote about Men and women

In revenge and in love woman is more barbarous than man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Beyond Good and Evil

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Nature of women Men and women

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Beyond Good and Evil
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1886 1880s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Jenseits von Gut und Böse: Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft [Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future]. Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886, ch. 4, no. 134.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Beyond Good and Evil, translated by R. J. Hollingdale. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 4, no. 134.

Another quote from My Fair Lady

I could have danced all night.

Eliza Doolittle

My Fair Lady

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Dancing
Speaker
Eliza Doolittle
Actor
Audrey Hepburn
Source
I Could Have Danced All Night My Fair Lady
Medium
Song Film
Genre
Musical comedy (film) Musical (film) Musical comedy Musical
Language
English
Time
1964 1960s 20th century
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Citation

"I Could Have Danced All Night." My Fair Lady. Directed by George Cukor, performed by Marni Nixon, Warner Bros., 1964.

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How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

Epictetus

The Enchiridion

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Epictetus
Source
The Enchiridion
Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Question
Language
Greek
Time
135 130s 2nd century
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Epictetus. Ἐγχειρίδιον Ἐπικτήτου, Enkheirídion Epiktḗtou [Enchiridion of Epictetus]. c. 125 CE, ch. 51.

Current Citation

Epictetus. Enchiridion, translated by George Long. Dover Publications, 2004, ch. 51.