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These are some of the things wilderness can do for us. That is the reason we need to put into effect, for its preservation, some other principle that the principles of exploitation or "usefulness" or even recreation. We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

Wallace Stegner

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Wilderness Man and nature Conservation

Author

Wallace Stegner

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Stegner, Wallace. Letter to David E. Pesonen. 3 Dec. 1960.

The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts... His people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.

George Fox

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Topic

God and man

Author

George Fox

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1646 1640s 17th century

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Citation

Fox, George. Journal entry. c. 1646.

Men may have had their own very good reasons for bringing women up in servitude, but the soul of a servant is not an attractive thing, and one of the most infuriating aspects of women's constricted upbringing is that it has made them less attractive, even in the eyes of their constrictors, than they should have been. Man has twisted and pruned women out of all recognition and then not liked the results.

Janet Radcliffe Richards

The Sceptical Feminst

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Topic

Patriarchy Oppression of women

Author

Janet Radcliffe Richards

Source

The Sceptical Feminst

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Richards, Janet Radcliffe. The Sceptical Feminst: A Philosophical Enquiry. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980, ch. 5.

When someone tells me a piece of the truth which has been withheld from me, and which I needed in order to see my life more clearly, it may bring acute pain, but it can flood me with a cold, sea-sharp wash of relief.

Adrienne Rich

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Topic

Difficult truths

Speaker

Adrienne Rich

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Rich, Adrienne. "Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying." Women's Writing Workshop. June 1975, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, USA.

I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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Topic

Overthinking Happiness

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. Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go... Life is nothing. Life is all. It is the hand with which we hold off death. It is the glow-worm that shines in the night-time and is black in the morning; it is the white breath of the oxen in the winter; it is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself at sunset.

H. Rider Haggard

King Solomon's Mines

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Topic

Nature of life Ephemeral nature of life Shortness of life Life Death

Speaker

Ignosi (Umbopa)

Author

H. Rider Haggard

Source

King Solomon's Mines

Medium

Novel

Genre

Adventure novel

Language

English

Time

1885 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. London: Cassell and Company, 1886.

Current Citation

Haggard, H. Rider. King Solomon's Mines. Penguin Classics, 2008.

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.

Richard Aldington

The Colonel's Daughter

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Patriotism Nationalism

Speaker

Mr. Purfleet

Author

Richard Aldington

Source

The Colonel's Daughter

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1931 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Aldington, Richard. The Colonel's Daughter. Chatto and Windus, 1931.

While classes exist no one is free.
We are not born to be slaves or to be masters.
We are born to be brothers and sisters.
What is capitalism but buying and selling of people?

Ernesto Cardenal

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Topic

Class conflict Power relations Equality Brotherhood Social hierarchy

Author

Ernesto Cardenal

Source

Canto Nacional

Medium

Poem

Genre

Political literature

Language

Spanish

Time

1972 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Cardenal, Ernesto. Canto nacional. Ediciones Carlos Loblé, 1973.

No, Thursday's out. How about never-is never good for you?

Robert Mankoff

Caption to a cartoon showing a businessman speaking on the phone.

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Robert Mankoff

Medium

Cartoon

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Original Citation

Mankoff, Robert. Cartoon caption. New Yorker, 3 May 1993.

Current Citation

Mankoff, Robert. How About Never-Is Never Good for You? My Life in Cartoons. Henry Holt and Company, 2014, ch. 8.

Remember the war against Franco?
That's the kind where each of us belongs.
Though he may have won all the battles,
We had all the good songs.

Tom Lehrer

The Folk Song Army

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Fighting fascism Fascism

Speaker

Tom Lehrer

Source

The Folk Song Army

Medium

Song

Genre

Folk music

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Lehrer, Tom. "The Folk Song Army." That Was The Year That Was. Reprise Records/Warner Records, 1965.

In olden days, a glimpse of stocking
Was looked on as something shocking,
But now, God knows,
Anything goes.

Cole Porter

Anything Goes

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Topic

Moral decline Custom and convention

Author

Cole Porter

Source

Anything Goes

Medium

Song

Genre

Great American songbook

Language

English

Time

1934 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Porter, Cole. "Anything Goes." Anything Goes. Performed by Ethel Merman. 1934, Alvin Theatre, New York, NY, USA.

O Woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering upon aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!

Sir Walter Scott

Redgauntlet

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Topic

Nature of women Women

Author

Sir Walter Scott

Source

Redgauntlet

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1808 1800s 19th century

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Citation

Scott, Walter, Sir. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: William Miller and John Murray, 1808, canto 6, st. 30.

It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant, and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."

Hugo Black

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Topic

Bill of Rights Constitutional theory American politics

Speaker

Hugo Black

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Black, Hugo L. James Madison lecture. 17 Feb. 1960, New York University School of Law, New York University, New York City, NY, USA.

The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either; yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; So strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which perhaps, no longer exists.

William Jones

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Language

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William Jones

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1786 1780s 18th century

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Citation

Jones, William. Discourse on the history and culture of the Hindus. Third annual discourse before the Asiatic Society. 2 Feb. 1786, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Lots of people talk to animals. Not very many listen though. That's the problem.

Benjamin Hoff

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Topic

Man and animals

Author

Benjamin Hoff

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Hoff, Benjamin. "Spelling Tuesday." The Tao of Pooh. E. P. Dutton, 1982.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

Lawrence Durrell

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Topic

Place Man and nature

Author

Lawrence Durrell

Source

Justine

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Durrell, Lawrence. Justine. Faber & Faber/E. P. Dutton, 1957.

Too often we give our children the answers to remember rather than the problems to solve.

Roger Lewin

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Topic

Teaching children Parents and children Cultivating independence

Author

Roger Lewin

Source

The Saturday Review

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1974 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Lewin, Roger. "Observing the Brain Through a Cat's Eyes." The Saturday Review, 5 Oct. 1974.

The mystery of life is not solved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.

Patrick White

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Topic

Failure Adversity

Speaker

Le Mesurier

Author

Patrick White

Source

Voss

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Citation

White, Patrick. Voss. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957, ch. 10.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Ernest Dimnet

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Topic

Architecture

Author

Ernest Dimnet

Source

What We Live By

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Dimnet, Ernest. What We Live By. Simon & Schuster, 1932, pt. 2, ch. 12.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Abba Eban

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Topic

Learning from the past History Human nature

Speaker

Abba Eban

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Eban, Abba. Speech in London. 16 Dec. 1970, London, England, UK.