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Democracy is not tearing down; it is a building up. It is not denial of the divine right of Kings; it supplements that claim with the assertion of the divine right of all men. It does not destroy; it fulfills. It is the consummation of all theories of government, to the spirit of which all the nations of the Earth must yield. It is the great constructive course of the ages.

Calvin Coolidge

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Democracy Democratic triumphalism

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Calvin Coolidge

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Coolidge, Calvin. "Equal Rights." 4 July 1916, Daniel Webster's home, Marshfield, MA, USA.

To have power means not to have to give in, and to force the environment or the other person to do so. Power in this narrow sense is the priority of output over intake, the ability to talk instead of listen. In a sense, it is the ability to afford not to learn.

Karl Deutsch

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Topic

Nature of power Power

Author

Karl Deutsch

Source

The Nerves of Government

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Deutsch, Karl. The Nerves of Government: Models of Political Communication and Control. Free Press, 1963, ch. 7.

The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems, bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen, or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire. And then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected, dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.

Jon Stewart

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Jon Stewart

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Speech

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English

Time

2010 2010s 21st century

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Stewart, Jon. Speech at the National Mall. Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. 30 Oct. 2010, National Mall, Washington, DC, USA.

There is nothing impossible, therefore, in the existence of the supernatural: its existence seems to me decidedly probable; there is infinite room for it on every side.

George Santayana

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The supernatural

Author

George Santayana

Source

The Genteel Tradition at Bay

Language

English

Time

1931 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Santayana, George. The Genteel Tradition at Bay. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931, ch. 2.

Negroes will not break out of the barriers of the ghetto unless whites transcend the barriers of their own minds, for the ghetto in which the white lives imprisoned. The poetic irony of American race relations is that the rejected Negro must somehow also find the strength to free the privileged white.

Kenneth B. Clark

Dark Ghetto

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Race relations

Author

Kenneth B. Clark

Source

Dark Ghetto

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Clark, Kenneth B. Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power. Harper and Row, 1965, ch. 9.

Just have one more try-it's dead easy to die,
It's the keeping-on-living that's hard.

Robert W. Service

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Persistence Never giving up Challenges of life Life

Author

Robert W. Service

Source

The Quitter

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1912 1910s 20th century

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Service, Robert W. "The Quitter." Rhymes of a Rolling Stone. Dodd, Mead and Co., 1912.

It's amazing how our attitude on alcohol changes, right? Cause even as a teenager you know it's wrong. You're like, "You know, I don't like the taste of it, but I want to look cool." And then in your twenties you're like, "You know what, this kinda gives me confidence to talk to the opposite sex." Then in your forties you're like, "You know what, this is the only thing I like about being alive."

Jim Gaffigan

Obsessed

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Alcohol Stages of life

Author

Jim Gaffigan

Source

Obsessed

Medium

Standup comedy

Genre

Comedy

Language

English

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Gaffigian, Jim. "Obsessed." Comedy Central Special. 27 Apr. 2014, Comedy Central. Originally presented on 18 Jan. 2014 at the Wilbur Theater, Boston, MA, USA.

There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate—the genetic and neural fate—of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.

Oliver Sacks

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Uniqueness of each person The individual

Author

Oliver Sacks

Source

The New York Times

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

2015 2010s 21st century

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Sacks, Oliver. "My Own Life." The New York Times, 19 Feb. 2015.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made:
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Moral decline Morality Economic inequality Working class

Author

Oliver Goldsmith

Source

The Deserted Village

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1770 1770s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Citation

Goldsmith, Oliver. The Deserted Village. London: W. Griffin, 1770, l. 51.

Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so.

Carl Jung

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Judging the past Past and present

Author

Carl Jung

Source

Synchronizität Als Ein Prinzip Akausaler Zusammenhänge [Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle]

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl. Synchronizität Als Ein Prinzip Akausaler Zusammenhänge [Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle]. Princeton University Press, 1960.

I define a recession as when your neighbor loses his job, but a depression is when you lose your own.

Dave Beck

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Recession Depression

Speaker

Dave Beck

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1954 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Beck, Dave. Quoted in Time. 22 Feb. 1954.

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

Wilkie Collins

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Topic

Game Men and women

Author

Wilkie Collins

Source

The Woman in White

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1860 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Collins, Wilkie. "The Woman in White." All the Year Round, 26 Nov. 1859 – 25 Aug. 1860.

Current Citation

Collins, Wilkie. The Woman in White, edited by Matthew Sweet. Penguin Classics, 2003.

Sometimes I think of the books I'll never read that would have changed my life.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Topic

Power of literature Books

Author

Jonathan Safran Foer

Source

The New York Times

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Foer, Jonathan Safran. "The Hum Inside the Skull, Revisited," New York Times, 16 Jan. 2005, www.nytimes.com/2005//01/16/books/review/the-hum-inside-the-skull-revisited.html

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass-which is better than trying to fill them.

Emil Cioran

The Trouble With Being Born

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Passage of time Nihilism

Author

Emil Cioran

Source

The Trouble With Being Born

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Cioran, Emil. De I’inconvenient d’etre ne [The Trouble with Being Born]. Arcade Publishing, 1973, ch. 1.

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

Jerome K. Jerome

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Topic

How to live Simple living

Author

Jerome K. Jerome

Source

Three Men in a Boat

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1889 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Jerome, Jerome Klapka. Three Men in a Boat. London: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889, ch. 3.

Current Citation

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. 3.

The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation... Surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.

William E.H. Lecky

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Calvinism Christian theology

Author

William E.H. Lecky

Source

History of European Morals

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Lecky, William Edward Hartpole. History of European Morals: From Augustus to Charlemagn. Vol. 1, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1869, ch. 1.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

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Topic

Man and machine Genius Human potential

Author

Elbert Hubbard

Source

A Thousand and One Epigrams

Language

English

Time

1911 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Hubbard, Elbert. A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard. The Roycrofters, 1911.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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Missed opportunities The road not taken FOMO

Author

Jonathan Safran Foer

Source

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Houghlin Mifflin, 2005.

It was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that, in the long run, prosperity and salvation are in union, and not division.

Benjamin Cardozo

Baldwin v. G. A. F. Seelig

On the U.S. Constitution.

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Constitutional theory

Author

Benjamin Cardozo

Source

Baldwin v. G. A. F. Seelig

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Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Cardozo, Benjamin Nathan. United States, Supreme Court. Baldwin v. G. A. F. Seelig. United States Reports, vol. 294, 4 Mar 1935, pp. 511-528. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/294/511/.

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call a clear call that may not be denied.

John Masefield

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Topic

Ocean and sea

Author

John Masefield

Source

Sea Fever

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Masefield, John. "Sea-Fever." Salt-Water Ballads. London: Grant Richards, 1902, I. 5.

Current Citation

Masefield, John. "Sea-Fever." Sea Fever: Selected Poems of John Masefield, edited by Philip W. Errington. Carcanet Press, 2005, I. 5.