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The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls

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Topic

The world Death

Speaker

Robert Jordan

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Source

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Medium

Novel

Genre

War novel

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940, ch. 43.

All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

Voltaire

Candide

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Topic

Problem of evil Nature of the world The world

Speaker

Pangloss

Author

Voltaire

Source

Candide

Medium

Novel

Genre

Satire

Language

French

Time

1759 1750s 18th century

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Original Citation

Voltaire. Candide, ou l'Optimisme [Candide: or, All for the Best]. Geneva: Gabriel Cramer, 1759, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Voltaire. Candide, edited by Nicholas Cronk. W. W. Norton & Company, 2016, ch. 1.

The earth is what we all have in common.

Wendell Berry

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Topic

The world Interconnectedness of all things

Author

Wendell Berry

Source

The Unsettling of America

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Berry, Wendell. The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture. Sierra Club Books, 1977, ch. 7.

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in.

American Beauty

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Topic

Beauty The world Feeling overwhelmed

Speaker

Ricky Fitts

Actor

Wes Bentley

Source

American Beauty

Medium

Film

Genre

Black comedy (film) Comedy drama (film) Black comedy Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Citation

American Beauty. Directed by Sam Mendes, Jinks/Cohen Company, 1999.

Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel, a facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal. We are intimately related.

Fred Rogers

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Topic

Interconnectedness of all people The world

Speaker

Fred Rogers

Source

2002 Dartmouth commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rogers, Fred. Commencement address to the Dartmouth Class of 2002. Commencement cermony. 2002, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:21

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Topic

Nature of the world Creation of the world Creation The world

Source

Genesis The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Genesis 1:21).

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

Ecclesiastes 1:4

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Topic

Ephemeral nature of life Circle of life Life The human condition The world

Source

Ecclesiastes The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

931 BC 930s BC 10th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ecclesiastes 1:4).

In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Jesus

John 16:33

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Topic

Overcoming adversity Adversity The world

Speaker

Jesus

Source

Gospel of John The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

90 90s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (John 16:33).

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Albert Einstein

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Topic

Nature of the world Science The world

Author

Albert Einstein

Source

Physics and Reality The Journal of the Franklin Institute

Medium

Academic journal

Genre

Scientific literature

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Einstein, Albert. "Physics and Reality." The Journal of the Franklin Institute, Mar. 1936.

Current Citation

Einstein, Albert. "Physics and Reality." The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works. Penguin, 2008, ch. 13.

The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased, unprejudiced…fair.

The Dark Knight

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Topic

The world Randomness Morality

Speaker

Two-Face/Harvey Dent

Actor

Aaron Eckhart

Source

The Dark Knight

Medium

Film

Genre

Superhero (film) Crime drama (film) Superhero Crime drama

Language

English

Time

2008 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Dark Knight. Directed by Christopher Nolan, Warner Bros. Pictures/Legendary Pictures/Syncopy, 2008.

This is a great and terrible world. I never knew there were so many men alive in it.

Rudyard Kipling

Kim

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Topic

The world

Speaker

Old Man (Kim)

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Source

Kim

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1901 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "Kim." McClure's Magazine, Dec. 1900 - Oct. 1901.

Current Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. Kim, edited by Zohreh T. Sullivan. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.

The world is what it is.

V.S. Naipaul

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Topic

Impossibility of progress The world

Author

V.S. Naipaul

Source

A Bend in the River

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Naipaul, V. S. A Bend in the River. Alfred A Knopf, 1979, pt. 1.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1

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Topic

Beginning of time Origin of the universe Creation of the world Creation The world

Source

Genesis The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (Genesis 1:1).

But it’s a resilient place, the world, and its beauty is still astonishing, and as for the mess we’ve made, you can change it, and I believe you’re going to.

Salman Rushdie

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Topic

Changing the world The world Progress

Speaker

Salman Rushdie

Source

2015 Emory commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Language

English

Time

2015 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rushdie, Salman. "Keynote Address." Commencement. 19 May 2015, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

This is the Earth, at a time when the dinosaurs roamed a lush and fertile planet. A piece of rock just 6 miles wide changed all that. It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons. A trillion tons of dirt and rock hurtled into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating blanket of dust the sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before. It will happen again. It's just a question of when.

Armageddon

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Topic

End of the world The world End times

Source

Armageddon

Medium

Film

Genre

Disaster (film) Science fiction (film) Disaster Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Armageddon. Directed by Michael Bay, Touchstone Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films/Valhalla Motion Pictures, 1998.

Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Apostle Paul

1st Corinthians 1:20

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Topic

Worldly wisdom The world

Author

Apostle Paul

Source

1st Corinthians The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Question

Language

Greek

Time

55 50s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st Corinthians 1:20).

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West

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The world

Author

Cormac McCarthy

Source

Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West

Medium

Novel

Genre

Western literature

Language

English

Time

1985 1980s 20th century

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Citation

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian; or The Evening Redness in the West. Random House, 1985, ch. 17.

The whole world lieth in wickedness.

1st John 5:19

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Topic

Fallen world Original sin The world

Source

1st John The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

95 90s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st John 5:19).

The world is often wiser than any philosopher.

Walter Bagehot

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Topic

The world Wisdom School of life

Author

Walter Bagehot

Source

National Review

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1863 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Bagehot, Walter. "Article X: The Late Sir G. C. Lewis." The National Review, Oct. 1863.

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.

Horace Walpole

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Topic

The world Reason and emotion

Author

Horace Walpole

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1776 1770s 18th century

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Original Citation

Walpole, Horace. Letter to Anne. 16 Aug. 1776.

Current Citation

Walpole, Horace. "Letter to Anne." Horace Walpole's Correspondence, edited by Wilmarth S. Lewis, A. Dayle Wallace, and Edwine M. Martz. Vol. 32, Yale University Press, 1965.