Well, as I said, this is a man's world, Jeff, and you gotta check your ideals outside the door like you do your others.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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Ideals in politics Politics

Speaker

Senator Joseph Paine

Actor

Claude Rains

Source

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Medium

Film

Genre

Political (film) Comedy drama (film) Political Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Directed by Frank Capra, Columbia Pictures, 1939.

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Success is relative:
It is what we can make of the mess we have
made of things.

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Success
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T.S. Eliot
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Medium
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Language
English
Time
1939 1930s 20th century
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Citation

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

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Thomas Pynchon
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Gravity's Rainbow
Medium
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Language
English
Time
1973 1970s 20th century
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Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's Rainbow. Viking Press, 1973.

Another quote from 1939

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Rhett Butler

Gone with the Wind

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Indifference
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Rhett Butler
Actor
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Source
Gone with the Wind
Medium
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Epic (film) Historical romance (film) Epic Historical romance
Language
English
Time
1939 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Gone with the Wind. Directed by Victor Fleming. Selznick International Pictures/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.