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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Environmental protection

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. Speech in Colorado. Colorado Live Stock Association meeting. 29 Aug. 1910, Denver, CO, USA.

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How beautiful is all this visible world!
How glorious in its action and itself!
But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we,
Half dust, half deity, alike unfit
To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make
A conflict of its elements, and breathe
The breath of degradation and of pride.

Lord Byron

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Man and nature Nature The human condition

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Lord Byron

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Manfred

Medium

Poem

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English

Time

1817 1810s 19th century

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Lord Byron. Manfred: A Dramatic Poem. London: John Murray, 1817, act 1, sc. 2, l. 37.

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Lord Byron. "Manfred." Lord Byron: Selected Poems, edited by Susan J. Wolfson and Peter J. Manning. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 1, sc. 2, l. 37.

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We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth--but neither will we shrink from that risk at any time it must be faced...I call upon Chairman Khrushchev to halt and eliminate this clandestine, reckless, and provocative threat to world peace and to stable relations between our two nations...He has an opportunity now to move the world back from the abyss of destruction.

John F. Kennedy

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Cuban Missile Crisis Cold War America and the world

Speaker

John F. Kennedy

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Kennedy, John F. Address on Soviet missiles in Cuba. 22 Oct. 1962, The White House, Washington, DC, USA. Radio and television address.

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Good and Evil, Reward and Punishment, are the only Motives to a rational Creature: These are the Spur and Reins whereby all Mankind are set on Work, and guided.

John Locke

Some Thoughts Concerning Education

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Incentives

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John Locke

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Some Thoughts Concerning Education

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Treatise

Genre

Political literature Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1693 1690s 17th century

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Locke, John. Some Thoughts Concerning Education. London: A. and J. Churchill, 1693, sect. 54.

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Locke, John. "Some Thoughts Concerning Education." Some Thoughts Concerning Education and of the Conduct of the Understanding, edited by Ruth W. Grant and Nathan Tarcov. Hackett Publishing Company, 1996, sect. 54.

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We're especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, looney tunes, and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich.

Ronald Reagan

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Terrorism Cold War

Speaker

Ronald Reagan

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1985 1980s 20th century

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Reagan, Ronald. Annual Convention of the American Bar Association. 8 July 1985, Constitution Hall, Washington, DC, USA.

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Yes, as through this world I've wandered
I've seen lots of funny men
Some will rob you with a six-gun
And some with a fountain pen.

Woody Guthrie

Pretty Boy Floyd

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White collar crime Crime

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Woody Guthrie

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Pretty Boy Floyd Dust Bowl Ballads

Medium

Song

Genre

Folk

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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Guthrie, Woody. "Pretty Boy Floyd." Dust Bowl Ballads. RCA Victor, 1964.

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Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life.

Robin Sharma

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Taking risks

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Robin Sharma

Medium

Tweet

Language

English

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

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Sharma, Robin [@RobinSharma]. "Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life." Twitter, 30 Mar. 2014, https://twitter.com/robinsharma/status/450120262076203011.

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The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Robert M. Pirsig

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence

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Change starts at home Changing the world Self-improvement

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Robert M. Pirsig

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1974 1970s 20th century

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Pirsig, Robert M. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. William Morrow and Company, 1974.

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Fame is a food that dead men eat,-
I have no stomach for such meat.

Henry Austin Dobson

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Appetite for fame Fame

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Henry Austin Dobson

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Fame is a Food

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Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1906 1900s 20th century

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Dobson, Henry Austin. "Fame is a Food That Dead Men Eat." The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Nov. 1906 - Apr. 1907.

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We all know that books burn-yet we have the greater knowledge that books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind. In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Book burning Power of ideas

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Speech

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Message to American Booksellers Association. Annual banquet of the American Booksellers Association. 6 May 1942, Astor Hotel, New York City, NY, USA.

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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene

The Power and the Glory

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Growing up Childhood

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Graham Greene

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The Power and the Glory

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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Greene, Graham. The Power and the Glory. William Heineman, 1940, pt. 1, ch. 1.

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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

T.H. Huxley

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Ideas Truth Heresy Superstition

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T.H. Huxley

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The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species

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Lecture

Language

English

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "The Coming of Age of The Origin of Species." 19 Mar. 1880, Royal Institution, London, England, UK. Lecture.

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It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great.

A League of Their Own

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Hard work Adversity

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Jimmy Dugan

Actor

Tom Hanks

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A League of Their Own

Medium

Film

Genre

Sports (film) Comedy drama (film) Sports Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

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A League of Their Own. Directed by Penny Marshall, Parkway Productions, 1992.

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The Bible is literature, not dogma.

George Santayana

Introduction to Spinoza's Ethics

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The Bible

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George Santayana

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Introduction to Spinoza's Ethics

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Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

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Santayana, George. Introduction. Ethics, by Spinoza, translated by A. Boyle. Everyman's Library, 1910.

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Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years go on.

Steve Jobs

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Doing what you love Vocation Work

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Steve Jobs

Source

2005 Stanford commencement address

Medium

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 undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true.

Bertrand Russell

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Unfounded beliefs Beliefs

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Bertrand Russell

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On the Value of Skepticism Sceptical Essays

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Essay

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Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Russell, Bertrand. "On the Value of Skepticism." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

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I just want you to know that you're very special... And the only reason I'm telling you is that I don't know if anyone else ever has.

Stephen Chbosky

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

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Uniqueness of each person

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Bill

Author

Stephen Chbosky

Source

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Medium

Novel

Genre

Young adult

Statement Type

Compliment

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Pocket Books, 1999.

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Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The Affluent Society

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Wealth Downsides of wealth

Author

John Kenneth Galbraith

Source

The Affluent Society

Genre

Sociology Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

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Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Affluent Society. Houghton Mifflin, 1958, ch. 1, sect. 1.

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He is dreadfully married. He's the most married man I ever saw in my life.

Artemus Ward

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Marriage

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Artemus Ward

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English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

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Ward, Artemus. "Brigham Young's Palace." 1869, Egyptian Hall, London, UK. Lecture.

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I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The American Scholar

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The little things Simple living Being present

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The American Scholar

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Speech

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar." Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College. 31 Aug. 1837, First Parish in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar (1837)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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