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Every gun that is made, ever warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Costs of war War

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Speech

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Political speech

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English

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. "Chance for Peace." American Society for Newspaper Editors meeting. 16 Apr. 1953, Washington, DC, USA.

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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed which is perpetually to be conquered.

On Conciliation with America

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Use of force Civil unrest Political theory Politics

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Edmund Burke

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On Conciliation with America

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

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English

Time

1775 1770s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with America." House of Commons. 22 Mar. 1775, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Give the lady what she wants!

Marshall Field

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Business

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Marshall Field

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English

Time

1906 1900s 20th century

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Field, Marshall. Instruction to manager of his Chicago department store. c. 1906. Marshall Field Department Store, Chicago, IL, USA.

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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

H.L. Mencken

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Faith

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H.L. Mencken

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Prejudices, Third Series

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Essay

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Mencken, Henry Louis. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series, edited by Marion Rodgers. Library of America, 2010, ch. 14, sec. 3. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1922.

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If any man can show just cause, why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.

The Book of Common Prayer

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Marriage

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Solemnization of Matrimony The Book of Common Prayer

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Religious literature

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English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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The Book of Common Prayer (American). Episcopal Church, 1928.

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I repeat... That all power is a trust - that we are accountable for its exercise - that, from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must exist.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Political power Political leadership Citizen and state Role of government Political theory

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The Prince

Author

Benjamin Disraeli

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Vivian Grey

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Novel

Language

English

Time

1826 1820s 19th century

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Disraeli, Benjamin. Vivian Grey. Vol. 4, London: Henry Colburn, 1826, bk. 6, ch. 7.

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Take your delight in momentariness,
Walk between dark and dark-a shining space
With the grave’s narrowness, though not its peace.

Robert Graves

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Shortness of life The ephemeral Life

Author

Robert Graves

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Sick Love

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

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Graves, Robert. "Sick Love." Poems 1929. Seizin Press, 1929, l. 10-12.

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Graves, Robert. "Sick Love." The Complete Poems: In One Volume. Penguin Books, 2003, l. 10-12.

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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Bertrand Russell

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Controlling others

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Bertrand Russell

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The Recrudescence of Puritanism Sceptical Essays

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Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Russell, Bertrand. "The Recrudescence of Puritanism." Sceptical Essays. George Allen and Unwin Ltd./W. W. Norton & Company, 1928.

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God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.

William Cowper

Light Shining out of Darkness

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Incomprehensibility of God God

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William Cowper

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Light Shining out of Darkness

Medium

Hymn Song

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English

Time

1779 1770s 18th century

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Cowper, William. "Light Shining out of Darkness." Twenty-six Letters on Religious Subjects; to which are added Hymns. London: J. and W. Oliver, 1774.

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Cowper, William. "Light Shining out of Darkness." William Cowper's Olney Hymns. Curiosmith, 2009.

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Does history record any case in which the majority was right?

Robert A. Heinlein

Time Enough for Love

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Majority opinions

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Robert A. Heinlein

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Time Enough for Love

Medium

Novel

Genre

Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Heinlein, Robert A. "Second Intermission." Time Enough for Love. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.

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A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.

Herbert A. Simon

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Information overload

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Herbert A. Simon

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Paradox

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English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

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Simon, Herbert. "Designing Organizations for an Information Rich World." Computers, Communications, and the Public Interest, edited by Martin Greenberger. Johns Hopkins Press, 1971.

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It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other.

Fred Rogers

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Conflict resolution Interpersonal conflict Conflict Accepting others Compromise

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Fred Rogers

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The World According to Mister Rogers

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English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 174.

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The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or harm.

Walter Bagehot

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Good intentions Charity

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Walter Bagehot

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Physics and Politics

Genre

Political literature

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1872 1870s 19th century

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Bagehot, Walter. Physics and Politics. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873, ch. 5.

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Bagehot, Walter. Physics and Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2010, ch. 5.

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Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

François de La Rochefoucauld [François VI, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac]

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Absence

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François de La Rochefoucauld [François VI, Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac]

Source

Reflections

Medium

Epigram

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

French

Time

1678 1670s 17th century

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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The dragon-green, the luminous, the dark, the serpent-haunted sea.

James Elroy Flecker

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Ocean and sea

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James Elroy Flecker

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The Gates of Damascus

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

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Flecker, James Elroy. "The Gates of Damascus." The Collected Poems of James Elroy Flecker. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1916, I. 33.

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The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

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The future Innovation Invention

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Alan Kay

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Speech

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

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Kay, Alan. Speech in Palo Alto. c. 1971, Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA, USA.

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When a lovely flame dies,
Smoke gets in your eyes.

Otto Harbach

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

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Failed relationships Lost love

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Otto Harbach

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Medium

Song

Genre

Great American songbook

Language

English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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Harbach, Otto. "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes." Roberta. Composed by Jerome Kern. 1933, New Amsterdam Theatre, New York City, NY, USA.

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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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Thinking for oneself Orthodoxy Innovation Heretics Progress

Author

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Source

On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature Philosophical literature

Language

Russian

Time

1923 1920s 20th century

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Zamyatin, Yevgeny. "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters." A Soviet Heretic, translated by Mirra Ginsburg. University of Chicago Press, 1970. Originally published in 1923.

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Man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

Eric Hoffer

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Overcoming obstacles Opportunities

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Eric Hoffer

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On Nature and Human Nature

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Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

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Hoffer, Eric. "On Nature and Human Nature." Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer. Harper & Row, 1982.

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I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome K. Jerome

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Work Procrastination Finishing a task

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Jerome K. Jerome

Source

Three Men in a Boat

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Novel

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1889 1880s 19th century

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Jerome, Jerome Klapka. Three Men in a Boat. London: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889, ch. 15.

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Jerome, Jerome Klapa. "Three Men in a Boat." Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel, edited by Jeremy Lewis. Penguin Classics, 2000, ch. 15.

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