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Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good.

Sir Thomas Browne

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Steadfastness Obstinacy Relativism

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Sir Thomas Browne

Source

Religio Medici

Genre

Autobiography and memoir Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1643 1640s 17th century

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. Religio Medici. London, 1643, pt. 1, sect. 25.

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Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Religio Medici (1643)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 1, sect. 25.

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Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

On the Ford Model T.

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Consumer choice Cars

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Henry Ford

Source

My Life and Work

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

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Ford, Henry and Samuel Crowther. My Life and Work. Doubleday, 1922, ch. 4.

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Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead trouble makers.

Mignon McLaughlin

The Neurotic's Notebook

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Conformity Rebellion

Author

Mignon McLaughlin

Source

The Neurotic's Notebook

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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McLaughlin, Mignon. The Neurotic's Notebook. ‎The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1963, ch. 7.

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What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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Evidence

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Christopher Hitchens

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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

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English

Time

2007 2000s 21st century

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Hitchens, Christopher. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Twelve/Hachette Book Group, 2007, ch. 10.

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Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?

Dr. Strangelove

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Communist plots Political paranoia Communism

Speaker

Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper

Actor

Sterling Hayden

Source

Dr. Strangelove

Medium

Film

Genre

Black comedy (film) War (film) Black comedy War

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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Dr. Strangelove. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, Hawk Films, 1964.

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Not Heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

John Dryden

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Changing the past What's done is done

Author

John Dryden

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Imitation of Horace

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Poem

Language

Latin

Time

1685 1680s 17th century

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Dryden, John. Imitation of Horace. c. 1685, bk. 3, ode 29, stanza 8.

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Dryden, John. "Translations from Horace: Book 3, Ode 29." Selected Poems, edited by Steven N. Zwicker and David Bywaters. Penguin Classics, 2002, stanza 8.

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All presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously; for the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer.

William Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England

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Presumption of innocence Criminal law Legal theory Law

Author

William Blackstone

Source

Commentaries on the Laws of England

Medium

Treatise

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1769 1760s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Law of England: Book the Fourth. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1769, ch. 27.

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Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book IV Of Public Wrongs, edited by David Lemmings. Oxford University Press, 2016, ch. 27.

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A belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

Under Western Eyes

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Problem of evil God and man Human nature

Author

Joseph Conrad

Source

Under Western Eyes

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1911 1910s 20th century

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Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Harper & Brothers/Methuen Publishing, 1911, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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Conrad, Joseph. Under Western Eyes. Dover Publications, 2003, pt. 2, ch. 4.

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What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public, alight?

Tommy Boy

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Americans The masses

Speaker

Zalinsky

Actor

Dan Aykroyd

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Tommy Boy

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Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

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Tommy Boy. Directed by Peter Segal, Paramount Pictures, 1995.

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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Wendell Phillips

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Printing press Technological progress Progress

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Wendell Phillips

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Public Opinion on The Abolition Question

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Speech

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

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Phillips, Wendell. Speech in Boston. Massachusetts Antislavery Society meeting. 28 Jan. 1852, The Melodeon, Boston, MA, USA.

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Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air,
In his own ground.

Alexander Pope

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Home

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Alexander Pope

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Ode on Solitude

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Poem

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English

Time

1700 1700s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Pope, Alexander. "Ode on Solitude." 1700?

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Pope, Alexander. "Ode on Solitude." Essay on Man & Other Poems. Dover, 1994.

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What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart!
What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of Seven Gables

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Existential solitude Inner life Self-criticism

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Source

The House of Seven Gables

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851, ch. 11.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables, edited by Robert S. Levine. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, ch. 11.

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We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Henry James

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Creation Creativity Art

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Dencombe

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Henry James

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The Middle Years Scribner's Magazine

Medium

Short story Magazine

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

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James, Henry. "The Middle Years." Scribner's Magazine. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893.

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James, Henry. "The Middle Years." Henry James: Complete Stories 1892-1898. Vol. 4. Library of America, 1996.

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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Beauty Gardens Disenchanted world

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Douglas Adams

Source

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Medium

Novel

Genre

Science fiction

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

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Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pan Books, 1979, ch. 16.

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And long we try in vain to speak and act
Our hidden self, and what we say and do
Is eloquent, is well—but 'tis not true.

Matthew Arnold

The Buried Life

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Matthew Arnold

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The Buried Life

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English

Time

1852 1850s 19th century

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Arnold, Matthew, [published as A]. "The Buried Life." Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1852, l. 64.

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Arnold, Matthew. "The Buried Life." Dover Beach and Other Poems. Dover Publications, 2012, I. 64.

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And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.

American Beauty

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Letting go Beauty

Speaker

Lester Burnham

Actor

Kevin Spacey

Source

American Beauty

Medium

Film

Genre

Black comedy (film) Comedy drama (film) Black comedy Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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American Beauty. Directed by Sam Mendes, Jinks/Cohen Company, 1999.

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Through story, every culture defines itself and teaches its children how to be people and members of their people.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Stories Culture

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Ursula K. Le Guin

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The Operating Instructions

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

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Le Guin, Ursula K. "The Operating Instructions." Oregon Literary Arts meeting. 2002, Portland, Oregon, USA. Speech.

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To wander separately? But, only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.

Vertigo

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Wandering

Speaker

Madeleine Elster

Actor

Kim Novak

Source

Vertigo

Medium

Film

Genre

Film noir Psychological thriller (film) Psychological thriller

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

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Vertigo. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, 1958.

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I heard the old, old men say,
“Everything alters,
And one by one we drop away.”

W.B. Yeats

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The only constant is change Death The human condition

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W.B. Yeats

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The Old Men Admiring themselves in the Water

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

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Yeats, William Butler. "The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water." In the Seven Woods. Elizabeth Yeats's Dun Emer Press, 1903.

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Yeats, William Butler. "The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water." Yeats's Poetry, Drama and Prose. W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.

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Follow the money.

All The President's Men

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Watergate Money in politics Political corruption Politics

Speaker

Deep Throat

Actor

Hal Holbrook

Source

All The President's Men

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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All the President's Men. Directed by Alan J. Pakula. Wildwood Enterprises, 1976.

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