You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.

Citizen Kane

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Topic

Counterfactual history Downsides of wealth Wealth

Speaker

Kane

Actor

Orson Welles

Source

Citizen Kane

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Citizen Kane. Directed by Orson Welles. RKO Radio Pictures/Mercury Productions, 1941.

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A lot depends on who's in the saddle.

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Film
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Time
1946 1940s 20th century
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Another quote about Wealth

No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

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Matthew 6:24

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Jesus
Source
Gospel of Matthew The Bible
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Time
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Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 3
Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 6:24).

Another quote from 1941

And were an epitaph to be my story
I'd have a short one ready for my own.
I would have written of me on my stone:
I have a lovers quarrel with the world.

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The Lesson for Today

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Man and the world

Author

Robert Frost
Source
The Lesson for Today
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1941 1940s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Frost, Robert. Reading of The Lesson for Today at Harvard University. 20 June 1941, Phi Beta Kappa Society meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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Put that coffee down! Coffee's for closers only.

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Blake
Actor
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Glengarry Glen Ross
Medium
Film
Genre
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Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
1992 1990s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Glengarry Glen Ross. Directed by James Foley, Zupnik Enterprises, 1992.

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One more such victory over the Romans and we are lost.

Pyrrhus

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Pyrrhus

Author

Plutarch
Source
Plutarch's Lives
Genre
Biography
Statement Type
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Language
Greek
Time
279 BC 270s BC 3rd century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 2
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Pyrrhus. Quoted in "Pyrrhus." Parallel Lives by Plutarch. c. 2nd century BC, ch. 21, sect. 9.

Current Citation

Pyrrhus. Quoted in "Pyrrhus." Parallel Lives by Plutarch. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 21, sect. 9.