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How can you hesitate? Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

Katherine Mansfield

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Going for it Taking risks

Author

Katherine Mansfield

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Mansfield, Katherine. Journal entry. 10 Oct. 1922.

Current Citation

Mansfield, Katherine. The Katherine Mansfield Notebooks. Vol. 2, Lincoln University Press, 1997.

The extermination camps, in endeavoring to turn man into a beast, intimated that it is not life alone which makes him man.

Andre Malraux

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The Holocaust

Author

Andre Malraux

Language

French

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Malraux, Andre. Antimemoires [Anti-memoirs]. Gallimard, 1967, sect. 2.

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now...But trust me on the sunscreen.

Mary Schmich

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young

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Advice

Author

Mary Schmich

Source

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young Chicago Tribune

Medium

Newspaper

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Schmich, Mary. "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young." Chicago Tribune, 1 June 1997.

I asked him one time what type of writing brought the most money and the agent says, "Ransom notes."

Elmore Leonard

Get Shorty (novel)

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Writing

Speaker

Harry Zimm

Author

Elmore Leonard

Source

Get Shorty (novel)

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Joke

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Leonard, Elmore. Get Shorty. Delacorte Press, 1990, ch. 9.

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

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Topic

Taking action

Author

Peter Drucker

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Drucker, Peter. "Managing for Business Effectiveness." Harvard Business Review, 1963.

Being born a slave in a captive society and never experiencing any objective basis for expectation had the effect of preparing me for the progressively traumatic misfortunes that lead so many black men to the prison gate. I was prepared for prison. It required only minor psychic adjustments.

George Jackson

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Topic

Black experience

Author

George Jackson

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Jackson, George. Letter to Greg Armstrong. 10 June 1970.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total Obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert

Dune

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Topic

Facing one's fears Fear

Author

Frank Herbert

Source

Dune

Genre

Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Herbert, Frank. Dune. Chilton Books, 1965. Originally published in Analog Magazine, Dec. 1963 - Feb. 1964.

The highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba the Greek

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Topic

Awe

Author

Nikos Kazantzakis

Source

Zorba the Greek

Medium

Novel

Language

Greek

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Original Citation

Kazantzakis, Nikos. Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Life and State of Alexis Zorba]. Athens: Dimitrakou, 1946, ch. 24.

Current Citation

Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek, translated by Peter Bien. Simon & Schuster, 2014, ch. 24.

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

Clifton Fadiman

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Power of literature Books

Author

Clifton Fadiman

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Fadiman, Clifton. Any Number Can Play. The World Publishing Company, 1957.

We are the tools are vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

John Swinton

Quoted in Chicago Labor Enquirer

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Topic

Journalism

Speaker

John Swinton

Source

Chicago Labor Enquirer

Language

English

Time

1888 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Swinton, John. Quoted in Chicago Labor Enquirer. 12 May 1888.

It will need more than the Nineteenth Amendment to convince me that there are no differences between men and women, or that legislation cannot take those differences into account.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Adkins v. Children's Hospital

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Topic

Women's equality Men and women

Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Source

Adkins v. Children's Hospital

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1923 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Dissenting Opinion. Adkins v. Children's Hospital. United States Reports, vol. 261, 9 Apr. 1923, pp. 567-571. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/250/616/.

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

Robert Mueller

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Topic

Oppression of women

Speaker

Robert Mueller

Source

Look Magazine

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Mueller, Robert. Quoted in Look Magazine. 5 Mar. 1957.

He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.

James Joyce

Dubliners

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Topic

FOMO

Author

James Joyce

Source

A Painful Case Dubliners

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1914 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners. Grant Richards, 1914.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners: Centennial Edition, edited by Terence Brown. Penguin Classics, 2014.

The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.

Pope John XXIII

Pacem in Terris

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Topic

Interconnectedness of all people International politics

Author

Pope John XXIII

Source

Pacem in Terris

Medium

Letter

Genre

Papal encyclical Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Pope John XXIII. "Pacem in Terris [Peace on Earth]." Litterae Encyclicae [Encyclical Letter]. 11 Apr. 1963, pt. 4.

Capitalism undoubtedly has certain boils and blotches upon it, but has it as many as government? Has it as many as marriage? Has it as many as religion? I doubt it. It is the only basic institution of modern man that shows any genuine health and vigor.

H.L. Mencken

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Topic

Capitalism

Author

H.L. Mencken

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Mencken, H. L. "Editorial." American Mercury, July 1928.

There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.

Jules Renard

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Things get worse Pessimism

Author

Jules Renard

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Renard, Jules. Journal entry. 31 Oct. 1908.

Current Citation

Renard, Jules. The Journal of Jules Renard, edited and translated by Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget. Tin House Books, 2017.

A differentiation arises between ourselves, the we-group, or in-group, and everybody else, or the others-groups, out-groups.

William Graham Sumner

Folkways

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Topic

Us vs. them Group conflict

Author

William Graham Sumner

Source

Folkways

Genre

Sociology

Language

English

Time

1906 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Sumner, William Graham. Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals. Ginn & Company, 1906, ch. 1.

Patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

George Jean Nathan

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Downsides of patriotism Patriotism

Author

George Jean Nathan

Language

English

Time

1931 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Nathan, George Jean. Testament of a Critic. A. A. Knopf, 1931, bk. 1.

If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for a factory worker, and you can move your factory south of the border, pay $1 an hour for labor... Have no environmental controls, no pollution controls, and no retirement. And you don't care about anything but making money. There will be a giant sucking sound going south.

Ross Perot

On trade agreements between the U.S. and other countries.

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Topic

Deindustrialization Global capitalism

Speaker

Ross Perot

Medium

Political debate

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Perot, Ross. Spoken at a presidential debate. Presidential debate. 15 Oct. 1992, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA.

It is not the prize that can make us happy; it is not even the winning of the prize....[It is] the struggle, the long hot hour of the honest fight.... There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Anthony Trollope

Orley Farm

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Benefits of adversity Adversity Hard work

Author

Anthony Trollope

Source

Orley Farm

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Trollope, Anthony. Orley Farm. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861-1862.