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If God has died in the blare of the twentieth century and in houses too new and cheap to be haunted, one must seek him in the old quiet places, where he might still live on in retirement.

Wilfrid Sheed

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Topic

20th century Death of God Decline of religion

Author

Wilfrid Sheed

Source

The Good Word & Other Words

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Sheed, Wilfrid. The Good Word & Other Words. E. P. Dutton, 1978, pt. 1, ch. 12.

There was bad faith and good, honesty and dishonesty, courage and cowardice, selflessness and opportunism, wisdom and stupidity, good and bad on bath sides; and almost every individual involved, no matter where he stood, combined some or all of these antithetical qualities in his own person, in his own acts.... It will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.

Dalton Trumbo

On the Hollywood blacklist of suspected communists during the Red Scare.

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Topic

Red Scare

Speaker

Dalton Trumbo

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Trumbo, Dalton. Speech accepting an award from the Writers' Guild. 13 Mar. 1970, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Current Citation

Trumbo, Dalton. Quoted in Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical, written by Larry Ceplair and Christopher Trumbo. University Press of Kentucky, 2015, ch. 22.

This happened near the core
Of a world's culture. This
Occurred among higher things.
This was a philosophical conclusion.
Everybody gets what he deserves.

Alan Bold

June 1967 at Buchenwald

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Topic

The Holocaust

Author

Alan Bold

Source

June 1967 at Buchenwald

Medium

Poem

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Bold, Alan. A Perpetual Motion Machine. Chatto & Windus, 1969.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, then where is it to be found?

J.B. Priestley

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Topic

Snow

Author

J.B. Priestley

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Priestley, J. B. "First Snow." Apes and Angels. Methuen, 1928.

Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth... Is that it is alive... Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, cleaming membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos... It has the organized, self-contained look of a live creature, full of information, marvelously skilled in handling the sun.

Lewis Thomas

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Topic

The earth

Author

Lewis Thomas

Source

The World's Biggest Membrane

Medium

Essay

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Thomas, Lewis. "The World's Biggest Membrane." The New England Journal of Medicine, 13 Sept. 1973.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

Lewis Thomas

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Topic

Worry Being present

Author

Lewis Thomas

Medium

Speech

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Thomas, Lewis. Address given at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. c. 1978, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, NY, USA.

Self-government is our right, a thing born in us at birth, a thing no more to be doled out to us, or withheld from us, by another people than the right to life itself-than the right to feel the sun, or smell the flowers, or to love our kind.

Roger Casement

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Topic

Political theory Politics

Speaker

Roger Casement

Source

King's Bench. R vs Casement

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Language

English

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Casement, Roger. King's Bench. R vs Casement [1017] KB 98, 134. 29 June 1916.

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds,-and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of-wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever eagle flew-
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

John Gillespie Magee, Jr

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Topic

Flying

Author

John Gillespie Magee, Jr

Source

High Flight

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Magee, John Gillespie, Jr. "High Flight." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12 Nov. 1941.

This book is about the organization man...The people I am talking about...are not the workers, nor are they the white-collar people in the usual, clerk sense of the word. These people only work for the Organization. The ones I am talking about belong to it as well.

William H. Whyte, Jr.

The Organization Man

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Topic

Company man

Author

William H. Whyte, Jr.

Source

The Organization Man

Genre

Sociology

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Whyte, William H, Jr. The Organization Man. Simon & Schuster, 1956, ch. 1.

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

Aneurin Bevan

In Place of Fear

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Topic

Conservatism False consciousness

Author

Aneurin Bevan

Source

In Place of Fear

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bevan, Aneurin. In Place of Fear. William Heinemann, 1952, ch. 1.

Of all the questions you might want to ask
about angels, the only one you ever hear
is how many can dance on the head of a pin.

No curiosity about how they pass the eternal time
besides circling the Throne chanting in Latin
or delivering a crust of bread to a hermit on earth
or guiding a boy and a girl across a rickety wooden bridge.

Billy Collins

Read Questions About Angels at Poetry Foundation

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Topic

Angels

Author

Billy Collins

Source

Questions About Angels

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Collins, Billy. Questions About Angels. Quill, 1991.

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up the net.

Franklin P. Adams

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Topic

Middle age Aging

Author

Franklin P. Adams

Source

Nods and Becks

Language

English

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Adams, Franklin P. Nods and Becks. Whittlesey House, 1944.

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation…we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Bernard Baruch

Address to the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission, June 14, 1946

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Topic

Atomic Age Nuclear weapons

Speaker

Bernard Baruch

Source

Address to the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission, June 14, 1946

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Baruch, Bernard M. Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. First session of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. 14 June 1946, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA.

The identity crisis... Occurs in that period of the life cycle when each of you must forge for himself some central perspective and direction, some working unity, out of the effective remnants of his childhood and the hopes of his anticipated adulthood.

Erik Erikson

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Topic

Growing up

Author

Erik Erikson

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Erikson, Erik. Young Man Luther. W. W. Norton & Company, 1958, ch. 1.

America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it. America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.

Samuel Eliot Morison

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Topic

America Nature of history

Author

Samuel Eliot Morison

Source

The Oxford History of the American People

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Oxford History of the American People. Oxford University Press, 1965, ch. 2.

Crime is a sociopolitical artifact, not a natural phenomenon. We can have as much or as little crime as we please, depending on what we choose to count as criminal.

Herbert L. Packer

The Limits of the Criminal Sanction

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Topic

Crime

Author

Herbert L. Packer

Source

The Limits of the Criminal Sanction

Language

English

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Packer, Herbert L. The Limits of the Criminal Sanction. Stanford University Press, 1968, conclusion.

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select-doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

John B. Watson

Behaviorism

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Topic

Blank slate

Author

John B. Watson

Source

Behaviorism

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

English

Time

1924 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Watson, John B. Behaviorism. The People's Institute Publishing Company, 1924, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Watson, John B. Behaviorism. Routledge, 2017, ch. 5.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

Havelock Ellis

Impressions and Comments

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Topic

Noise Technological progress

Author

Havelock Ellis

Source

Impressions and Comments

Language

English

Time

1914 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Ellis, Havelock. Impressions and Comments. Constable & Company, 1914.

We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.

J.B. Priestley

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Topic

Interconnectedness of all people Man as social animal

Author

J.B. Priestley

Source

An Inspector Calls

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play) Drama

Language

English

Time

1945 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Priestley, J. B. "An Inspector Calls." Time and the Conways and Other Plays. Penguin Classics, 1994, act 3. Originally performed in 1945, Comedy Theatre in Leningrad, Moscow, Russia, act 3.

That woman's physical structure and the performance of maternal functions place her at a disadvantage in the struggle for subsistence is obvious. This is especially true when the burdens of motherhood are upon her... As healthy mothers are essential to vigorous offspring, the physical wellbeing of woman becomes an object of public interest and care in order to preserve the strength and vigor of the race.

David J. Brewer

Muller v. Oregon

Read this opinion at supreme.justia.com.

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Topic

Women's rights Women

Author

David J. Brewer

Source

Muller v. Oregon

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Brewer, David J. United States, Supreme Court. Muller v. Oregon. United States Reports, vol. 208, 24 Feb. 1908, pp. 412-423. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/208/412/.