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This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

T.S. Eliot

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End of the world Decline of civilization Societal collapse

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T.S. Eliot

Source

The Hollow Men

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Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

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Eliot, T. S. "The Hollow Men." Poems: 1909-1925. Faber and Gwyer, 1925, pt. 5.

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Eliot, T. S. "The Hollow Men." The Waste Land and Other Poems. Vintage, 2021, pt. 5.

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Because it's there.

George Mallory

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Upon being asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest.

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Climbing mountains Mountains Finding one's limits Adventure Challenges

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George Mallory

Source

The New York Times

Medium

Interview Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1923 1920s 20th century

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Mallory, George. "Climbing Mount Everest is Work for Supermen." New York Times, 18 Mar. 1923.

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The customer is always right.

Marshall Field

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Customers Business

Author

Marshall Field

Source

Boston Sunday Herald

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1905 1900s 20th century

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Field, Marshall. "America's Biggest Taxpayer Is a Merchant Prince of Chicago: Leads Country's Big Taxpayers." The Sunday Herald, 3 Sept. 1905, Women's section, p. 10, col. 2.

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We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Abraham Lincoln

First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln

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Political division American Civil War American politics

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Abraham Lincoln

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First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1861 1860s 19th century

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1861, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Lincoln, Abraham. "First Inaugral Address, March 4, 1861." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1859-1865, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 2018.

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And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy

Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy

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Citizen and state Civic duty American politics

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John F. Kennedy

Source

Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Political speech

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English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

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Kennedy, John F. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1961, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Sextus Propertius

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Nature of love Love

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Sextus Propertius

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Elegies

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Poem

Language

Latin

Time

24 BC 20s BC 1st century BC

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Classical antiquity

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Sextus Propertius. Elegies. c. 24 BC, bk. 2.

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Sextus Propertius. Elegies, edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Harvard University Press, 1990, bk. 2.

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When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Declaration of Independence

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Declaration of Independence American politics

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Declaration of Independence

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Political literature

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English

Time

1776 1770s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

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United States Declaration of Independence. 1776.

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The National Archives. The Declaration of Independence: A Transcript. 24 July 2020, www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript.

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Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!

Horace

"Carpe diem", in Latin.

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Living life to the fullest Living in the moment

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Horace

Source

Odes (Horace)

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Poem

Statement Type

Advice

Language

Latin

Time

23 BC 20s BC 1st century BC

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Classical antiquity

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Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 1, no. 11.

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Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, no. 11.

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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee!

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Boxing

Speaker

Muhammad Ali

Source

CBS

Medium

Interview

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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Ali, Muhammad. Interviewed by Bob Halloran, CBS, c. 25 Feb. 1964.

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Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

Ronald Reagan

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Berlin Wall Cold War Communism

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Ronald Reagan

Source

Address at the Brandenburg Gate

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Statement Type

Orders and commands

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Reagan, Ronald. "Tear Down This Wall!" 12 June 1987, Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin, Germany.

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We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare; and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Constitution of the United States

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Forming a government American politics

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Constitution of the United States

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Political literature

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English

Time

1787 1780s 18th century

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The United States Constitution. Preamble.

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"The Constitution of the United States." The Constitution of the United States and The Declaration of Independence. Racehorse, 2016, preamble.

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In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

Erasmus

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Relativism

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Erasmus

Source

Adagia

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Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Latin

Time

1536 1530s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Erasmus. Collectanea Adagiorum. Paris: Enguilbert de Marnef, 1500.

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Erasmus. The Adages of Erasmus, edited by William Barker, translated by Margaret Mann Phillips. University of Toronto Press, 2001.

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Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ozymandias

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Arrogance Hubris

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Ozymandias

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Poem

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English

Time

1818 1810s 19th century

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Ozymandias." The Examiner. London: Leigh Hunt and John Hunt, 11 Jan. 1818, l. 11.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Ozymandias." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 11.

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History is more or less bunk.

Henry Ford

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History

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Henry Ford

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Chicago Tribune

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Interview Newspapers

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English

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

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Ford, Henry. Interviewed by Charles N. Wheeler. Chicago Tribune, 25 May 1916.

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The buck stops here.

Harry Truman

Phrase on a sign on Harry Truman's desk in the White House.

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Political leadership Taking responsibility

Author

Harry Truman

Medium

Inscription

Language

English

Time

1945 1940s 20th century

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Truman, Harry S. Sign on Truman's desk during his presidency. c. 1945.

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It ain't over till it's over.

Yogi Berra

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Never giving up

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Yogi Berra

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English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Berra, Yogi. Comment on National League pennant race. July 1973, New York, NY, USA.

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Berra, Yogi. The Yogi Book. Workman Publishing Company, 2010, foreword.

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The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

W.B. Yeats

The Second Coming

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Decline of civilization Moral decline

Author

W.B. Yeats

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The Second Coming

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

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Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." The Dial, Nov. 1920.

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Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Well-behaved women seldom make history.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

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Girl power

Author

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Source

Vertuous Women Found American Quarterly

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Thatcher Ulrich, Laurel. "Vertuous Women Found: New England Ministerial Literature, 1668-1735." American Quarterly, vol. 28, no. 1.

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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

The Life of Reason

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Learning from the past History The past

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George Santayana

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The Life of Reason

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Philosophical literature

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English

Time

1905 1900s 20th century

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Santayana, George. The Life of Reason: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, edited by Marianne S. Wokeck and Martin A. Coleman. Vol. 7, The MIT Press, 2011, bk. 1, ch. 12. Originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905

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Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be blessed.

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man

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Hope

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Alexander Pope

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An Essay on Man

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Poem

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English

Time

1733 1730s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." London: J. Wilford, 1733, ep. 1, l. 95.

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Pope, Alexander. "An Essay on Man." The Major Works, edited by Pat Rogers. Oxford University Press, 2009, ep. 1, l. 95.

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