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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy-but that could change.

Dan Quayle

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Topic

Spread of freedom and democracy

Speaker

Dan Quayle

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Quayle, Dan. Quoted in Wall Street Journal. 26 May 1989.

It will be convenient to have a name for the ideas which are esteemed at any time for their acceptability, and it should be a term that emphasizes this predictability. I shall refer to these ideas henceforth as the conventional wisdom.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The Affluent Society

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Topic

Majority opinions Conformity Intellectual history

Author

John Kenneth Galbraith

Source

The Affluent Society

Genre

Sociology Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Affluent Society. Houghton Mifflin, 1958, ch. 2, sect. 1.

A myth is a religion in which no-one any longer believes.

James K. Feibleman

Understanding Philosophy

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Topic

Myth Religion

Author

James K. Feibleman

Source

Understanding Philosophy

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Feibleman, James K. "The Earliest Greek Philosophers." Understanding Philosophy: A Popular History of Ideas. Horizon Press, 1973, ch. 3.

I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

Harry Truman

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Topic

American foreign policy Cold War

Speaker

Harry Truman

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1947 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Truman, Harry S. Address about establishing the Truman Doctrine. Joint session of Congress. 12 Mar. 1947, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Franz Kafka

The Great Wall of China

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Topic

Stillness Paying attention

Author

Franz Kafka

Source

The Great Wall of China

Medium

Short story

Language

German

Time

1931 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Kafka, Franz. Betrachtungen über Sünde, Leid, Hoffnung und den wahren Weg [Reflections on Sin, Pain, Hope and the True Way]. Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag, 1931, no. 109.

If you tie up a horse to a stake, do you expect he will grow fat? If you pen an Indian up on a small spot of earth, and compel him to stay there, he will not be contented, nor will he grow and prosper. I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They can not tell me.

Chief Joseph

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Topic

Native American life US and Native American relations

Speaker

Chief Joseph

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

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Original Citation

Chief Joseph. Speech in Lincoln Hall. 14 Jan. 1879, Lincoln Hall, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Chief Joseph. "An Indian's Views of Indian Affairs." Great Speeches by Native Americans, edited by Bob Blaisdell. Dover Publications, 2012.

In my judgment, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.

Alberto Gonzales

On the war on terrorism.

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Topic

War on Terrorism Torture

Author

Alberto Gonzales

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Gonzales, Alberto R. Memorandum to George W. Bush. 25 Jan. 2002.

The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's "death panel" so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their "level of productivity in society," whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.

Sarah Palin

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Topic

Health care American politics

Author

Sarah Palin

Medium

Facebook

Language

English

Time

2009 2000s 21st century

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Palin, Sarah. Urging her supporters to oppose Democratic plans for health care reform. Facebook, 7 Aug. 2009.

If you want work well done, select a busy man.

Elbert Hubbard

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Topic

Busyness

Author

Elbert Hubbard

Language

English

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Hubbard, Elbert. The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard. Roycrofters, 1916.

In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Edith Wharton

A Backward Glance

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Topic

Long life Openness to change Curiosity

Author

Edith Wharton

Source

A Backward Glance

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1934 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Wharton, Edith. "A First Word." A Backward Glance. D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934.

Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

Revelation 4:11

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Topic

Creation of the world

Source

Revelation The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

96 90s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Revelation 4:11).

There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what... Who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims...These are people who pay no income tax...And so my job is not to worry about those people. I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.

Mitt Romney

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Topic

American politics

Speaker

Mitt Romney

Language

English

Time

2012 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Romney, Mitt. Remarks at private fundraiser. 17 May 2012, Boca Raton, FL, USA.

I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.

Helen Fielding

Bridget Jones's Diary

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Topic

Finding someone

Author

Helen Fielding

Source

Bridget Jones's Diary

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Fielding, Helen. Bridget Jones's Diary. Picador, 1996.

A genuine first-hand religious experience... Is bound to be a heterodoxy to its witnesses, the prophet appearing as a mere lonely madman. If his doctrine prove contagious enough to spread to any others, it becomes a definite and labeled heresy. But if it then still prove contagious enough to triumph over persecution, it becomes itself an orthodoxy, its day of inwardness is over: the spring is dry; the faithful live at second hand exclusively and stone the prophets in their turn.

William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience

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Topic

Religion

Author

William James

Source

The Varieties of Religious Experience

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

James, William. "The Value of Saintliness." Gifford Lecture. c. 1902, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. Lecture.

Current Citation

James, William. "The Value of Saintliness." The Varieties of Religious Experience, edited by Martin E. Marty. Penguin Classics, 1982.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

John Rawls

A Theory of Justice

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Topic

Justice Political theory

Author

John Rawls

Source

A Theory of Justice

Genre

Political literature Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Rawls, John. A Theory of Justice. Belknap Press, 1971, ch. 1, sect. 1.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.

George Santayana

Introduction to Spinoza's Ethics

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Topic

Overcoming fear

Author

George Santayana

Source

Introduction to Spinoza's Ethics

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Santayana, George. Introduction. Ethics, by Spinoza, translated by A. Boyle. Everyman's Library, 1910, introduction.

The advancement of the arts from year to year taxes our credulity, and seems to presage the arrival of that period when human improvement must end.

Henry L. Ellsworth

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Topic

Technological progress Progress

Author

Henry L. Ellsworth

Language

English

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Ellsworth, Henry L. "Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year." U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 1843.

It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists from blind imitation of the past.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Legal theory Law

Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

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Original Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "The Path of the Law." Address to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts at the dedication of the new hall of the Boston University School of Law. 8 Jan. 1897, Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "The Path of the Law." The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, edited by Richard A. Posner. University of Chicago Press, 1997.

There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Henry Fielding

Tom Jones

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Character

Author

Henry Fielding

Source

Tom Jones

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story Picaresque

Language

English

Time

1749 1740s 18th century

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Original Citation

Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. London: Andrew Millar, 1749, bk. 15, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, edited by Alice Wakely. Penguin Classics, 2005.

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

William Hazlitt

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Topic

Chess Great men

Author

William Hazlitt

Language

English

Time

1821 1820s 19th century

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Original Citation

Hazlitt, William. "The Indian Jugglers." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 1, London: John Warren, 1821.

Current Citation

Hazlitt, William. "The Indian Jugglers." The Spirit of Controversy and Other Essays, edited by Jon Mee and James Grande. Oxford University Press, 2021.