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Animals whom we have made our slaves we do not like to consider our equals.

Charles Darwin

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Man and animals Animals

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Charles Darwin

Source

Notebooks of Charles Darwin

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

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Darwin, Charles. "Notebook B." Transmutation of Species. 1837-1838, p. 231.

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Darwin, Charles. "Transmutation of Species: Notebook B [1837-1838]." Charles Darwin's Notebooks, 1836–1844, transcribed and edited by David Kohn. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.

Terence

The Self-Tormentor

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Syrus

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Terence

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The Self-Tormentor

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Play

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Latin

Time

163 BC 160s BC 2nd century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Terence. Ἑαυτὸν τιμωρούμενος [Heuton Timoroumenous]. c. 163 BC, Rome, Italy, act 4, sc. 2.

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Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

God

Isaiah 1:18

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Forgiveness of sins

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God

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Isaiah The Bible

Medium

Scripture

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Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

681 BC 680s BC 7th century BC

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Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Isaiah 1:18).

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For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Psalm 30:5

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God's wrath God's favor God Things get better

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Psalms The Bible

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Scripture

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Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

450 BC 450s BC 5th century BC

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Psalm 30:5).

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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

James Joyce

Ulysses

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Learning from mistakes Mistakes Genius

Speaker

Stephen Dedalus

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James Joyce

Source

Ulysses

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Joyce, James. Ulysses. Shakespeare and Company, 1922, bk. 2, ch. 9.

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Joyce, James. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes, edited by Catherine Flynn. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 9.

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve Jobs

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Shortness of life

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Steve Jobs

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2005 Stanford commencement address

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Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

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Jobs, Steve. Stanford Commencement Address. 12 June 2005, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

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It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

Oscar Wilde

An Ideal Husband

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Need for love Imperfection Love

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Sir Robert Chiltern

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Oscar Wilde

Source

An Ideal Husband

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1895 1890s 19th century

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Wilde, Oscar. An Ideal Husband. 1895, Haymarket Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2.

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Wilde, Oscar. "An Ideal Husband." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008, act 2.

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Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.

1st Peter 5:8

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The devil

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1st Peter The Bible

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Language

Greek

Time

65 60s 1st century

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Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (1st Peter 5:8).

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You know what men want? Food, sex, silence. That’s it. That's it. Food, sex, silence. "Feed me, fuck me, shut the fuck up."

Chris Rock

Bigger & Blacker

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Human needs

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Chris Rock

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Bigger & Blacker

Medium

Comedy special

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Rock, Chris. Bigger & Blacker. HBO, 10 July 1999.

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Everyone calls barbarism what is not customary to him.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays

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Barbarism Custom and convention

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Michel de Montaigne

Source

Of Cannibals Essays

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Essay

Language

French

Time

1580 1580s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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De Montaigne, Michel. "Des Cannibales [Of Cannibals]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "On the Cannibals." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Tyranny Martyrdom

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Soren Kierkegaard

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Journals of Soren Kierkegaard

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Personal journal

Language

Danish

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

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Kierkegaard, Soren. Journal entry. c. 1848.

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Kierkegaard, Soren. The Journals of Kierkegaard, translated by Alexander Dru. Harper Torch, 1959.

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The root of the kingdom is the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.

Mencius

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Political theory Social hierarchy

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Mencius

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Philosophical literature

Language

Chinese

Time

300 BC 300s BC 4th century BC

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Mencius. Mengzi. c. 300 BC, bk. 4.

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Mencius. Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics, 2005, bk. 4.

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There's room for everyone on the nice list.

Buddy

Elf

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Christmas

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Buddy

Actor

Will Ferrell

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Elf

Medium

Film

Genre

Christmas (film) Comedy (film) Christmas Comedy

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Elf. Directed by Jon Favreau. New Line Cinema/Guy Walks Into a Bar Productions, 2003.

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How few there are who have courage enough to own their Faults, or resolution enough to mend them!

Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

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Self-awareness Self-improvement Personal growth Courage

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Poor Richard (Benjamin Franklin)

Source

Poor Richard's Almanack

Medium

Almanac

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1743 1740s 18th century

Era

Colonial America

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1743.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1743." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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Virtue shuns ease as a companion... It demands a rough and thorny path.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays

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Virtue Self-improvement Personal growth

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Michel de Montaigne

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Of Cruelty Essays

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Essay

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Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

French

Time

1580 1580s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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De Montaigne, Michel. "De La Cruaute [Of Cruelty]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "On Cruelty." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

Booker T. Washington

Up From Slavery

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Manual labor Work

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Booker T. Washington

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Up From Slavery

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1900 1900s 20th century

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Washington, Booker T. "Up from Slavery." The Outlook, 1900.

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Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery. Dover Publications, 1995.

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The joy of the Lord is your strength.

Nehemiah 8:10

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Joy

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Nehemiah

Source

Nehemiah The Bible

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Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

400 BC 400s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Nehemiah 8:10).

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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

Democritus

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Man and animals Appetite Excess

Author

Democritus

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Presocratic fragment Fragment

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Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

370 BC 370s BC 4th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Democritus. c. 370 BC, fragment 198.

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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

New England Reformers

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Finishing a task Accomplishment

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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New England Reformers

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Lecture

Language

English

Time

1844 1840s 19th century

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "New England Reformers." American Anti-Slavery Society meeting. 3 Mar. 1844, Amory Hall, Boston, MA, USA.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "New England Reformers (1844)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy; we fought ourselves. And the enemy...was in us.

Platoon

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Vietnam War War

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Chris

Actor

Charlie Sheen

Source

Platoon

Medium

Film

Genre

War (film) War

Language

English

Time

1986 1980s 20th century

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Platoon. Directed by Oliver Stone, Hemdale Film Corporation, 1986.

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