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Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind.

George Gaylord Simpson

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Human origins Nature of man Evolution

Author

George Gaylord Simpson

Source

The Meaning Of Evolution

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Simpson, George Gaylord. The Meaning of Evolution. Yale University Press, 1949, epilogue.

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Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now—always, and indeed then most truly when it seems most unsuitable to actual circumstances.

Albert Schweitzer

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Inconvenient truth Truth

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Albert Schweitzer

Source

On the Edge of the Primeval Forest

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

German

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Schweitzer, Albert. Zwischen Wasser un Unwald [On the Edge of the Primeval Forest]. A. and C. Black, 1922, ch. 11.

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Schweitzer. "On the Edge of the Primeval Forest." The Primeval Forest. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

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Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

Jesus

Luke 23:43

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The crucifixion Heaven

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Jesus

Source

Gospel of Luke The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

61 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Luke 23:43).

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There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

Quoted in The Times of London

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Night and day Happiness Sadness Yin and yang

Speaker

Carl Jung

Source

The Times of London

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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Jung, Carl. "The Art of Living." Sunday Times, 17 July 1960.

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I can't use liquor as a crutch, because a crutch helps me walk. Liquor severely screws up the way I walk. It ain't like a crutch, it's like a step I didn't see.

Mitch Hedberg

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Alcohol

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Mitch Hedberg

Source

Comedy Central Presents

Medium

Comedy special

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Hedberg, Mitch. Comedy Central Presents. Comedy Central, 5 Jan. 1999.

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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great Imperial family to which we all belong.

Elizabeth II

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British empire

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Elizabeth II

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Radio broadcast Speech

Statement Type

Promises and vows

Language

English

Time

1947 1940s 20th century

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Elizabeth II. Speech on her twenty-first birthday. 21 Apr. 1947, Cape Town, South Africa, Africa. Radio broadcast.

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Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration.

George Mason

Virginia Bill of Rights

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Precepts and axioms

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George Mason

Source

Virginia Bill of Rights

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1776 1770s 18th century

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Mason, George. Virginia Bill of Rights. 12 June 1776, article 3.

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It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From Angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold;
'Peace on the earth, good will to man
From Heaven's all gracious King,'
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.

Edmund Sears

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It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

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Jesus's birth

Author

Edmund Sears

Source

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

Medium

Hymn Song

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

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Sears, Edmund. "That Glorious Song of Old." The Christian Register, 1849, I. 1.

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The Puritans, who nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedom, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoying his.

Charles Farrar Browne

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Puritanism

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Charles Farrar Browne

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Letter

Statement Type

Irony

Language

English

Time

1866 1860s 19th century

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Browne, Charles Farrar. "Introduction to the Club." London Punch Letters. c. 1866, no. 5.

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Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in.

William Shenstone

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Nature of law Law

Author

William Shenstone

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1764 1760s 18th century

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Shenstone, William. "On Politicks." The Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone, Esq. Vol. 2, London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1764.

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That community is already in process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where nonconformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denuciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

Learned Hand

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Diversity of opinion Questioning authority Dissent Red Scare

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Learned Hand

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

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Hand, Learned. Speech to the Board of Regents. 24 Oct. 1952, University of the State of New York, Albany, NY, USA.

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O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!

William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure

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Looks are deceiving Wolf in sheep's clothing Appearance vs. reality

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Duke Vincentio

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Measure for Measure

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 3, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

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Old-age, a second child, by Nature cursed
With more and greater evils than the first,
Weak, sickly, full of pains; in ev'ry breath
Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.

Charles Churchill

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Old age

Author

Charles Churchill

Source

Gotham

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1764 1760s 18th century

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Churchill, Charles. Gotham. London: W. Flexney, 1764, bk. 1, I. 215.

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Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Anthony Trollope

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Confidence Believing in oneself

Speaker

The Earl

Author

Anthony Trollope

Source

The Small House at Allington

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

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Trollope, Anthony. "The Small House at Allington." Cornhill Magazine, 1862-1863. Monthly serial.

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Trollope, Anthony. The Small House at Allington. Penguin Classics, 1991, ch. 32.

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On the geologic time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about. The mind blocks the information.

John McPhee

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Scale Shortness of life

Author

John McPhee

Source

Basin and Range

Language

English

Time

1981 1980s 20th century

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McPhee, John. Basin and Range. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981.

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Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work-
I am the grass; I cover all.

Carl Sandburg

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Casualties of war War

Author

Carl Sandburg

Source

Grass

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

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Sandburg, Carl. "Grass." Cornhuskers. Henry Holt and Company, 1918, I. 1.

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Sandburg, Carl. "Grass." The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003, I. 1.

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Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

Max Beerbohm

From Bloomsbury to Baywater

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Trying new things

Author

Max Beerbohm

Source

From Bloomsbury to Baywater

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Beerbohm, Max. "From Bloomsbury to Baywater." Mainly on the Air. William Heinemann, 1946. Originally published in World Review of Reviews, Aug. 1940.

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Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.

Learned Hand

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Conformity The masses

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Learned Hand

Source

Speeches of Learned Hand

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

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Hand, Learned. "The Preservation of Personality." Commencement. 2 June 1927, Bryn Mawr College, Byrn Mawr, PA, USA.

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Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis, and suicide. With failure comes failure.

Joseph Heller

Quoted in Playboy Magazine

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Success and failure Success Failure

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Joseph Heller

Source

Playboy Magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

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Heller, Joseph. Conversations with Joseph Heller, edited by Adam J. Sorkin. University Press of Mississippi, 1993. Originally spoken during an interview by Sam Merrill. Playboy, June 1975.

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Old and ruined, all rotted and broken up
These plum trees function gorgeously
A few days every year
In a way nobody else does.

Philip Whalen

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Trees Nature scene

Author

Philip Whalen

Source

Scenes of Life at the Capital

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

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Whalen, Philip. Scenes of Life at the Capital. Maya Quartos, 1970.

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