Plus ça change

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Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss.

The Who

Won't Get Fooled Again

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Topic

The boss The man Plus ça change

Speaker

The Who

Source

Won't Get Fooled Again Who's Next

Medium

Song

Genre

Rock music

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Townshend, Peter. Won't Get Fooled Again. Performed by The Who. Track Records/Decca Records, 1971.

History is a relay of revolutions.

Saul Alinsky

Rules for Radicals

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Topic

History Revolution Plus ça change

Author

Saul Alinsky

Source

Rules for Radicals

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Alinksy, Saul. Rules for the Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals. Random House, 1971.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.

Willa Cather

O Pioneers!

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Topic

Plus ça change Stories The human condition

Speaker

Carl (O Pioneers!)

Author

Willa Cather

Source

O Pioneers!

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913, pt. 2, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Cather, Willa. O Pioneers, edited by Sharon O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, pt. 2, ch. 4.

The world has joked incessantly for over fifty centuries.
And every joke that's possible has long ago been made.

W.S. Gilbert

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Topic

Jokes Plus ça change

Author

W.S. Gilbert

Source

His Excellency

Medium

Opera

Genre

Comedy

Language

English

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Gilbert, William Schwenck. His Excellency. Composed by F. Osmond Carr. 1894, Lyric Theatre, London, England, UK.