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The only substitute for an experience we ourselves have never lived through is art, literature.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Nobel Prize Lecture

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Topic

Power of art Power of literature

Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Source

Nobel Prize Lecture

Medium

Speech

Language

Russian

Time

1972 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. Nobel Lecture in Literature. 1970, Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden.

Discovery is discernment, selection.

Henri Poincaré

Science and Method

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Topic

Discovery

Author

Henri Poincaré

Source

Science and Method

Genre

Scientific literature

Statement Type

Definition

Language

French

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Poincare, Henri. Science et methode [Science and Method]. Flammarion, 1914, bk. 1, ch. 3.

I believe that in many cases the ideal size for the unit of control and organisation lies somewhere between the individual and the modern State. I suggest, therefore, that progress lies in the growth and the recognition of semi-autonomous bodies within the State.

John Maynard Keynes

The End of Laissez-faire

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Topic

Government Political theory

Author

John Maynard Keynes

Source

The End of Laissez-faire

Medium

Essay

Genre

Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Keynes, John Maynard. The End Of Laissez-faire. Hogarth Press, 1926, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Keynes, John Maynard. "The End of Laissaz-faire." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016, ch. 4.

There is an invisible hand in politics that operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market. In politics, individuals who seek to promote only the public good are led by an invisible hand to promote special interests that it was no part of their intention to promote.

Milton Friedman

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Topic

Special interests Unintended consequences Political theory Politics

Author

Milton Friedman

Genre

Political literature Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1983 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Friedman, Milton. Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983.

One need only remind oneself of all that we expect from life to see how very strange it is, and to arrive at the conclusion that man has found his way into it by mistake and does not really belong there.

Italo Svevo

Zeno's Conscience

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Topic

Strangeness of life Nature of life

Author

Italo Svevo

Source

Zeno's Conscience

Medium

Novel

Language

Italian

Time

1923 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Svevo, Italo. La coscienza di Zeno [Zeno's Conscience]. Milan: Giuseppe Morreale Editore, 1923.

Current Citation

Svevo, Italo. Zeno's Conscience, translated by William Weaver. Everyman's Library, 2001.

I was in the unenviable position of being for the war but against the troops.

Bill Hicks

Relentless

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Topic

Supporting the troops Persian Gulf War

Speaker

Bill Hicks

Source

Relentless

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Hicks, Bill. Relentless. July 1991, Centaur Theatre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Marriage

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Getting Married: For Better For Worse The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, and The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet

Medium

Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "Getting Married: For Better For Worse." The Doctor's Dilemma, Getting Married, and The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. Brentano's/Constable & Co., 1908, preface.

In my lifetime I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians, etc.; thanks to Montesquieu, I even know that one can be Persian. But as for man, I declare that I have never in my life met him; if he exists, he exists unknown to me.

Joseph de Maistre

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Topic

The universal vs. the particular Nature of man

Author

Joseph de Maistre

Source

Considerations on France

Genre

Philosophical literature Political literature

Language

French

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

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Original Citation

Maistre, Joseph. "De l'influence divine dans les constitutions politiques [On Divine Influence in Political Constitutions]." Considérations sur la France [Considerations on France]. Paris, 1796.

Current Citation

Maistre, Joseph. "On Divine Influence in Political Constitutions." Considerations on France, edited by Richard A. Lebrun. Cambridge University Press, 1995.

I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

Grover Norquist

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Topic

Limited government

Speaker

Grover Norquist

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Norquist, Grover. Interviewed by Mara Liasson. NPR's Morning Edition. 25 May 2001.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

Song of Solomon 8:7

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Topic

Nature of love Love

Source

Song of Solomon The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Hebrew

Time

1000 BC 1000s BC 11th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Song of Solomon 8:7).

Dreams are a second life. I have never been able to cross through those gates of ivory or horn which separate us from the invisible world without a sense of dread.

Gerard de Nerval

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Dreams

Author

Gerard de Nerval

Source

Aurelia

Language

French

Time

1855 1850s 19th century

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Citation

Nerval, Gerard. Aurelia ou le reve et la vie [Aurelia or the Dream and the Life]. Paris: Theophile Gautier and Arsene Houssaye, 1855, pt. 1.

My friend said to me, "I think the weather's trippy." I said, "no man, it's not the weather that's trippy, perhaps it is the way that we perceive it that is indeed trippy." Then I thought "man, I shoulda just said 'yeah'."

Mitch Hedberg

Strategic Grill Locations

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Mitch Hedberg

Source

Strategic Grill Locations

Medium

Comedy album

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Hedberg, Mitch. Strategic Grill Locations. 7 Sept. 1999, The Laff Stop Comedy Club, Houston, Texas, USA.

Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line. In the discussion of its extent, its westward movement, etc., it can not, therefore, any longer have a place in the census reports.

Robert P. Porter

On the closing of the American frontier.

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Topic

American frontier

Author

Robert P. Porter

Source

Report on Population of the United States at the Eleventh Census

Language

English

Time

1891 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Porter, Robert P. Census Bureau's bulletin declaring the closing of the frontier. c. 1891.

At present an iron curtain of silence has descended, cutting off the Russian zone from the Western Allies.

T. St. Vincent Troubridge

A Curtain Across Europe

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Topic

Cold War

Author

T. St. Vincent Troubridge

Source

A Curtain Across Europe Empire News

Language

English

Time

1945 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Troubridge, Thomas. "A Curtain Across Europe." Empire News, 21 Oct. 1945.

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.

David Lodge

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Topic

Literature vs. life

Speaker

Adam Appleby

Author

David Lodge

Source

The British Museum Is Falling Down

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lodge, David. The British Museum is Falling Down. MacGibbon & Kee, 1965, ch. 4.

The newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people most people read. It is the only book they read every day.

Walter Lippmann

What Modern Liberty Means

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Topic

Newspapers

Author

Walter Lippmann

Source

What Modern Liberty Means The Atlantic

Medium

Essay Magazine

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lippmann, Walter. "What Modern Liberty Means." Liberty and the News. Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1919.

It had been boldly predicted by some of the early Christians that the conversion of the world would lead to the establishment of perpetual peace. In looking back, with our present experience, we are driven to the melancholy conclusion that, instead of diminishing the number of wars, ecclesiastical influence has actually and very seriously increased it.

William E.H. Lecky

History of European Morals

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Topic

Christianity in Europe Christianity

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. 2. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1869, ch. 4.

I shall use the phrase "time's arrow" to express this one way property of time which has no analogue in space.

Arthur S. Eddington

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Topic

Nature of time

Author

Arthur S. Eddington

Source

The Nature of the Physical World

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Eddington, Arthur. "The Nature Of The Physical World." Gifford lecture. January – March 1927, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

We aim at something more sublime and more equitable-the common good, or the community of goods... We demand, we would have, the communal enjoyment of the fruits which are for everyone.

Sylvain Marechal

Manifesto of the Equals

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Topic

Redistribution of wealth Communism

Author

Sylvain Marechal

Source

Manifesto of the Equals

Genre

Political literature

Language

French

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

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Citation

Sylvain, Marechal. Quoted in "Manifeste des Egaux [Manifesto of the Equals]." Histoire de la conspiration pour Egalite dite de Babeuf, written by Phillipe Buonarotti. Bruxelles: A la librairie Romantique, 1828.

The more important fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is exceedingly remote.

Albert A. Michelson

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Topic

Scientific progress Laws of physics

Speaker

Albert A. Michelson

Medium

Lecture

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1899 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Michelson, Albert A. "Comparison of the Microscope and Telescope with the Interferometer." Light Waves and Their Uses lecture series. 1899, Lowell Institute, Boston, MA, USA.