I guess sometimes the past just catches up with you, whether you want it to or not.

The Green Mile

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Past and present Effects of the past The past

Speaker

Old Paul Edgecomb

Actor

Dabbs Greer

Source

The Green Mile

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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The Green Mile. Directed by Frank Darabont, Castle Rock Entertainment/Darkwoods Productions, 1999.

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For the one thing even God cannot do is change the past.

Agathon

Quoted in The Nicomachean Ethics, by Aristotle

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God's power God Changing the past The past
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Agathon

Author

Aristotle
Source
The Nicomachean Ethics
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
Greek
Time
5th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Agathon. Quoted in Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia [Nicomachean Ethics], written by Aristotle. c. 350 BC, bk. 6.

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Agathon. Quoted in Nicomachean Ethics, written by Aristotle, translated by Terence Irwin. Hackett Publishing Company, 2019, bk. 6, ch. 2.

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Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.

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Fight Club

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Consumerism Advertising and marketing
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Tyler Durden
Actor
Brad Pitt
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Fight Club
Medium
Film
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Language
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Time
1999 1990s 20th century
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Fight Club. Directed by David Fincher, Fox 2000 Pictures/Regency Enterprises/Linson Films, 1999.