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O Life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I!

Robert Burns

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Topic

Challenges of life Life The human condition

Author

Robert Burns

Source

Despondency

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1786 1780s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Citation

Burns, Robert. "Despondency: An Ode." Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. Kilmarnock: John Wilson, 1786, I. 4.

God is Love-I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is!

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

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Topic

Nature of God

Author

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Samuel Butler. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones. A. C. Fifield, 1912, ch. 14.

A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished when others are tortured or oppressed, or treated as if they were less than who they are.

Desmond Tutu

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Topic

Interconnectedness of all people Loving others Openness Self-assurance

Author

Desmond Tutu

Language

English

Time

2000 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Tutu, Desmond. No Future Without Forgiveness. Doubleday, 1999.

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Francis Bacon

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Topic

Atheism Philosophy Faith

Author

Francis Bacon

Source

Of Atheism Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1625 1620s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Bacon, Francis. "Of Atheism." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

Current Citation

Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Atheism." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits…It is nothing jointed; it flows. A "river" or a "stream" are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life.

William James

The Principles of Psychology

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Topic

Consciousness

Author

William James

Source

The Principles of Psychology

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

English

Time

1890 1890s 19th century

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Citation

James, William. The Principles of Psychology. Vol. 1, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890, ch. 9.

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud.
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

Nagarjuna

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Topic

The ephemeral Impermanence

Author

Nagarjuna

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Sanskrit

Time

180 180s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra [The Diamond Sutra]. c. 868.

Current Citation

The Diamond Sutra, translated by Red Pine. Counterpoint, 2002.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

B.F. Skinner

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Topic

Artificial intelligence Man and machine

Author

B.F. Skinner

Source

Contingencies of Reinforcement

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Skinner, B. F. Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis. Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969, ch. 9.

It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public, to be the most anxious for its welfare.

Edmund Burke

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Topic

Demagogues

Author

Edmund Burke

Source

Observations on a Late State of the Nation

Medium

Pamphlet

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1769 1760s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Citation

Burke, Edmund. Observations on a Late State of the Nation. London: J. Dodsley, 1769.

We must be careful of what we think we are, because we may become that.

James Q. Wilson

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Topic

Perception

Author

James Q. Wilson

Source

The Moral Sense

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Wilson, James Q. The Moral Sense. Simon & Schuster, 1993.

Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Topic

Free exchange of ideas

Author

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Language

English

Time

1830 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Southey's Colloquies on Society." Edinburgh Review, Jan. 1830.

The majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

Anatole France

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Topic

Rule of law Law The poor Economic inequality

Speaker

Choulette

Author

Anatole France

Source

The Red Lily

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Irony

Language

French

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

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Citation

France, Anatole. Le Lys Rouge [The Red Lily]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1894, ch. 7.

Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap.

Patton

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Topic

Individual vs. the collective Team Individualism The military World War II

Speaker

General George S. Patton

Actor

George C. Scott

Source

Patton

Medium

Film

Genre

Biography (film) War (film) Biography War

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Patton. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. 20th Century Fox, 1969.

She floats, she hesitates; in a word, she's a woman.

Jean Racine

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Topic

Nature of women Women

Author

Jean Racine

Source

Athalie

Medium

Play

Language

French

Time

1691 1690s 17th century

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Citation

Racine, Jean. Athalie. 1691, Paris, France, act 3, sc. 3.

In your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride—the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire.

Ronald Reagan

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Topic

Soviet Union

Speaker

Ronald Reagan

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1983 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Reagan, Ronald. "Evil Empire." Annual convention of National Association of Evangelicals. 8 Mar. 1983, Orlando, FL, USA.

By a plan known only to Providence, the stolen sons and daughters of Africa helped to awaken the conscience of America. The very people traded into slavery helped set America free. My nation's journey toward justice has not been easy, and it is not over. The racial bigotry fed by slavery did not end with slavery or with segregation. And many of the issues that still trouble America have roots in the bitter experience of other times. But however long the journey, our destination is set: liberty and justice for all.

George W. Bush

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Topic

Civil rights American politics

Speaker

George W. Bush

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Bush, George W. Remarks at Goree Island, Senegal. 8 July 2003, Île de Gorée, Dakar, Senegal.

They may walk with a little less spring in their step, and their ranks are growing thinner, but let us never forget, when they were young, these men saved the world.

Bill Clinton

Remarks at the U.S. National Cemetery, June 6, 1944

On veterans of the D-Day invasion of World War II.

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Topic

D-Day Invasion World War II

Speaker

Bill Clinton

Source

Remarks at the U.S. National Cemetery, June 6, 1944

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Clinton, Bill. Remarks at the US National Cemetery. 6 June 1994, Colleville-sur-Mer, France.

The true virtue of human beings is fitness to live together as equals; claiming nothing for themselves but what they as freely concede to everyone else; regarding command of any kind as an exceptional necessity, and in all cases a temporary one.

John Stuart Mill

The Subjection of Women

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Topic

Equality

Author

John Stuart Mill

Source

The Subjection of Women

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Mill, John Stuart. The Subjection of Women. London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1869, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Mill, John Stuart. "The Subjection of Women." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 2.

If God is male, then the male is God.

Mary Daly

Beyond God the Father

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Topic

Patriarchy Nature of God Oppression of women

Author

Mary Daly

Source

Beyond God the Father

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Daly, Mary. Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation. Beacon Press, 1973, ch. 1.

There is a war on drugs, then many of our family members are the enemy. And I don't know how you wage war on your own family.

Traffic

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Topic

War on drugs

Speaker

Robert Wakefield

Actor

Michael Douglas

Source

Traffic

Medium

Film

Genre

Crime (film) Drama (film) Crime Drama

Language

English

Time

2000 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Traffic. Directed by Steven Soderbergh, Compulsion Inc.,/Bedford Falls Productions/USA Films/Initial Entertainment Group, 2000.

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The School for Scandal

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Topic

Gossip

Speaker

Mrs. Candour

Author

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Source

The School for Scandal

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play) Comedy of manners Comedy

Language

English

Time

1777 1770s 18th century

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Original Citation

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The School for Scandal. Performed by John Palmer, Frances Abington, William 'Gentleman' Smith, and Jane Pope. 1777, Drury Lane Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 1.

Current Citation

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley. The School for Scandal. Dover Publications, 1991, act 1, sc. 1.