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No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

James Madison

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Threats to freedom War

Author

James Madison

Source

Political Observations

Medium

Pamphlet

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1795 1790s 18th century

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Madison, James. Political Observations. Philadelphia, 20 Apr. 1795.

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Madison, James. "War and Republicanism; from Political Observations, April 20, 1795." Selected Writings of James Madison, edited by Ralph Ketcham. Hackett Publishing Company, 2006, ch. 57.

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Sleep is sweet to the laboring man.

John Bunyan

The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that Which is to Come

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Sleep as balm Sleep

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Hope

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John Bunyan

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The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that Which is to Come

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Allegory

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Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1678 1670s 17th century

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Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that Which is to Come. London: Nathaniel Ponder, 1678, pt. 1.

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Bunyan, John. The Pilgrim's Progress, edited by Roger Pooley. Penguin Classics, 2009, pt. 1.

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How long does a man spend dying?

Pablo Neruda

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Nature of death Death

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Pablo Neruda

Source

And How Long?

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Question

Language

Spanish

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

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Neruda, Pablo. "Y cuanto vive? [And how long?]." Extravagaria. Losada, 1958.

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Neruda, Pablo. "Y cuanto vive?/And how long?" Extravagaria: A Bilingual Edition, translated by Alistair Reid. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

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Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium.

Thomas De Quincey

London Magazine

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Opium Drugs

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Thomas De Quincey

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Confessions of an English Opium Eater London Magazine

Medium

Magazine

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1821 1820s 19th century

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De Quincey, Thomas [published anonymously]. "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater." The London Magazine, Sept. - Oct., 1821.

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De Quincey, Thomas. "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater." Confessions of an English Opium-Eater and Other Writings, edited by Robert Morrison. Oxford University Press, 2013.

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What I did that was new was to prove... That the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Karl Marx

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Class conflict Communism Nature of history History

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Karl Marx

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Letter

Language

German

Time

1852 1850s 19th century

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Marx, Karl. Letter to Joseph Weydemeyer. 5 Mar. 1852.

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Marx, Karl. "Marx to Joseph Weydemeyer. 5 Mar. 1852." Marx & Engels Collected Works. Vol. 39, International Publishers, 1983.

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No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

Dead Poets Society

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Changing the world Words Ideas

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John Keating

Actor

Robin Williams

Source

Dead Poets Society

Medium

Film

Genre

Teen (film) Drama (film) Teen Drama

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Dead Poets Society. Directed by Peter Weir, Touchstone Pictures/Silver Screen Partners IV, 1989.

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That little man... He says women can't have as much rights as men, cause Christ wasn't a woman. Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman. Man had nothing to do with Him.

Sojourner Truth

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Women's rights

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Sojourner Truth

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

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Truth, Sojourner. Speech in Ohio. Woman's convention. May 1851, Akron, Ohio, USA.

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Truth, Sojourner. "Ain't I a Woman?" Great Speeches by African Americans, edited by James Daley. Dover Publications, 2006.

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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.

Jonathan Swift

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Willful ignorance Ignorance Blindness

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Jonathan Swift

Source

Polite Conversation

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Satire

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1738 1730s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Swift, Johnathan. "Dialogue III." Polite Conversation. London: Charles Wittinham & Co., 1738.

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Swift, Jonathan. "Polite Conversation." Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock Treatises: Polite Conversation, Directions Servants and Other Works, edited by Valerie Rumbold. Cambridge University Press, 2013, no. 3.

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Exuberance is beauty.

William Blake

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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Exuberance Nature of beauty Beauty

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William Blake

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The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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Poem

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1793 1790s 18th century

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Blake, William. "Proverbs of Hell." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. c. 1790.

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Blake, William. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman. University of California Press, 2008.

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The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

Herodotus

Histories

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Bad decisions Good luck Fortune

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Artabanos

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Herodotus

Source

Histories

Genre

Historical literature

Language

Greek

Time

430 BC 430s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Herodotus. Ἱστορίαι [Histories]. c. 430 BC, bk. 7, sect. 10.

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Herodotus. The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 7, sect. 10.

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Man is only a reed, the weakest thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed.

Blaise Pascal

Pensées

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Man and nature Nature of man

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Blaise Pascal

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Pensées

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Epigram

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Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1662 1660s 17th century

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 347.

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Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 347.

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A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister

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Game of Thrones

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Books Reading

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Tyrion Lannister

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Peter Dinklage

Source

Game of Thrones

Medium

TV program

Genre

Fantasy (TV) Drama (TV) Fantasy Drama

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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"The Kingsroad." Game of Thrones, written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and George R.R. Martin, directed by Timothy Van Patten, season 1, episode 2, Television 360 and Grok! Studio, 2011.

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What a book a Devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering low, & horridly cruel works of nature!

Charles Darwin

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Nature Evolution

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Charles Darwin

Source

Letters of Charles Darwin

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Letter

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English

Time

1856 1850s 19th century

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Darwin, Charles. Letter to J. D. Hooker. 13 July 1856.

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Darwin, Charles. "To J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1856." The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, edited by Frederick Burkhardt and James A. Secord. Vol. 6: 1856-1857. Cambridge University Press, 1990, no. 1924.

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Pretty girls make graves.

Jack Kerouac

The Dharma Bums

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Beautiful women Beauty Dangers of love

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Jack Kerouac

Source

The Dharma Bums

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

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Kerouac, Jack. The Dharma Bums. Viking Press, 1958, ch. 5.

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There are no second acts in American lives.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Second chances Redemption America

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Last Tycoon

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Last Tycoon. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1941, notes.

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‘Tis easier to suppress the first Desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Nip it in the bud Self-control

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Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Poor Richard's Almanack

Medium

Almanac

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1751 1750s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1751.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1751." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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They change their clime, not their disposition, who run across the sea.

Horace

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Running away Change of scenery

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Horace

Source

Epistles 1

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Letter

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Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

Latin

Time

20 BC 20s 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 11.

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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 11.

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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, for it requires that we should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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Living well Adaptability Improvisation Life

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Marcus Aurelius

Source

Meditations

Medium

Personal journal

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

180 180s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 7.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 7.

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Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Totalitarianism Limits of language

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Syme

Author

George Orwell

Source

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Medium

Novel

Genre

Dystopian fiction

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Orwell, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Secker & Warburg, 1949, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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The beauty of the world which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

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Yin and yang Duality of man

Author

Virginia Woolf

Source

A Room of One's Own

Medium

Essay

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1929, ch. 1.

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Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Mariner Books, 2005, ch. 1.

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