1927

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You ain't heard nothing yet.

The Jazz Singer

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Topic

Hype

Speaker

Jakie Rabinowitz

Actor

Al Jolson

Source

The Jazz Singer

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Jazz Singer. Directed by Alan Crosland, Warner Bros. Pictures/The Vitaphone Corporation, 1927.

A revolution is not the same as inviting people to dinner, or writing an essay, or painting a picture... A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Mao Zedong

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Topic

Revolution

Author

Mao Zedong

Genre

Political literature

Statement Type

Definition

Language

Chinese

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Zedong, Mao. "湖南农民运动考察报告 [Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan]." Zhongyang Fukan, 28 Mar. 1927.

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue

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Taxes

Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Source

Compania General de Tabacos de Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Dissenting Opinion. Compania de Tabacos de Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue. United States Reports, vol. 275, 21 Nov. 1927, pp. 99-101. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/275/87/.

What is Love?... It is the morning and the evening star.

Sinclair Lewis

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Nature of love Love

Author

Sinclair Lewis

Source

Elmer Gantry

Medium

Novel

Genre

Satire

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1927, ch. 20.

Current Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Signet, 2007, ch. 20.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

Proper Studies

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Topic

Inconvenient truth Facts

Author

Aldous Huxley

Source

A Note on Dogma Proper Studies

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Huxley, Aldous. "A Note on Dogma." Proper Studies. Chatto & Windus, 1927.

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge on San Luis Rey

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Topic

Unrequited love

Author

Thornton Wilder

Source

The Bridge on San Luis Rey

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.

Current Citation

Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Vintage, 2023.

Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge on San Luis Rey

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God and man God and nature

Author

Thornton Wilder

Source

The Bridge on San Luis Rey

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.

Current Citation

Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Vintage, 2023.

The Great Society created by steam and electricity may be a society, but it is no community.

John Dewey

The Public and its Problems

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Topic

Technological progress

Author

John Dewey

Source

The Public and its Problems

Genre

Political literature Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Dewey, John. The Public and Its Problems. H. Holt and Company, 1927, ch. 3.

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but there may never be two that love one another equally well.

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge on San Luis Rey

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Topic

Inequality in love Love

Author

Thornton Wilder

Source

The Bridge on San Luis Rey

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.

Current Citation

Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Vintage, 2023.

Procrastination is the
art of keeping
up with yesterday.

Don Marquis

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Topic

Procrastination

Author

Don Marquis

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Marquis, Donald. "Certain Maxims of Archy." Archy and Mehitabel. The Evening Sun, c. 1927.

Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

Hermann Hesse

Steppenwolf

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Solitude Stillness

Author

Hermann Hesse

Source

Steppenwolf

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hesse, Herman. Der Steppenwolf [The Steppenwolf]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1927.

Current Citation

Hesse, Herman. Steppenwolf, translated by Basil Creighton. Picador, 2002.

an optimist is a guy
that has never had
much experience

Don Marquis

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Topic

Optimism

Author

Don Marquis

Source

Certain Maxims of Archy

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Marquis, Donald. "Certain Maxims of Archy." Archy and Mehitabel. The Evening Sun, c. 1927.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Julian Huxley

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Topic

God of the gaps Science and religion Existence of God Nature of God God

Author

Julian Huxley

Source

Religion without Revelation

Genre

Philosophical literature Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Huxley, Julian. Religion without Revelation. New American Library, 1957, ch. 3. Originally published by Harper & Brothers, 1927, ch. 3.

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burned women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

Louis Brandeis

Whitney v. California

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Topic

Freedom of speech and expression

Author

Louis Brandeis

Source

Whitney v. California

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Brandeis, Louis. United States, Supreme Court. Whitney v. California. United States Reports, vol. 274, 16 May 1927, pp. 357-379. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/274/357/.

Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.

Learned Hand

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Conformity The masses

Speaker

Learned Hand

Source

Speeches of Learned Hand

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hand, Learned. "The Preservation of Personality." Commencement. 2 June 1927, Bryn Mawr College, Byrn Mawr, PA, USA.

I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse,
I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea.
You may bury my body in Sussex grass,
You may bury my tongue at Champmédy.
I shall not be there, I shall rise and pass.
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

Stephen Vincent Benét

American Names

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Topic

America

Author

Stephen Vincent Benét

Source

American Names

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Benét, Stephen Vincent. "American Names." Yale Review, Oct. 1927.

I have fallen in love with American names,
The sharp, gaunt names that never get fat,
The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims,
The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat,
Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

Stephen Vincent Benét

American Names

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America

Author

Stephen Vincent Benét

Source

American Names

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Benét, Stephen Vincent. "American Names." Yale Review, Oct. 1927.

At three years of age, the child's whole emotional life plan has been laid down, his emotional disposition set. At that age, the parents have already determined for him whether he is to grow into a happy person, wholesome and good-natured, whether he is to be a whining, complaining neurotic, an anger-driven, vindictive, over-bearing slave driver, or one whose every move in life is definitely controlled by fear.

John B. Watson

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Raising kids

Author

John B. Watson

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Watson, John B. "Are You Giving Your Child a Chance?" McCall's, 1927.

Mr. Coolidge's genius for inactivity is developed to a very high point. It is far from being an indolent activity. It is a grim, determined, alert inactivity which keeps Mr. Coolidge occupied constantly. Nobody has ever worked harder at inactivity, with such a force of character, with such unremitting attention to detail, with such conscientious devotion to the task.

Walter Lippmann

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Topic

Taking it easy Idleness

Author

Walter Lippmann

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Lippmann, Walter. Men of Destiny. The Macmillan Company, 1927.

Current Citation

Lippmann, Walter. Men of Destiny. Routledge, 2018.

Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose... I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy.

J.B.S. Haldane

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Topic

Nature of the universe The universe

Author

J.B.S. Haldane

Source

Possible Worlds and Other Essays

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Haldane, J. B. S. "Possible Worlds." Possible Worlds and Other Essays. Chatto and Windus, 1927.

Current Citation

Haldane, J. B. S. "Possible Worlds." Possible Worlds and Other Essays. Routledge, 2001.