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If there is a paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this.

Amir Khusrau

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Heaven on earth

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Amir Khusrau

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Farsi

Time

1648 1640s 17th century

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Khusrau, Amir. Inscription in the Diwan-e Khas. Lal Qila, Delhi, India, c. 1648.

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Khusrau, Amir. Quoted in Shahjahanabad: The Living City of Old Delhi, written by Rana Safvi. HarperCollins India, 2020, part. 1.

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“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
What profit has a man from all his labor In which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 1:2-3

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Meaninglessness Work Impossibility of progress

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Ecclesiastes The Bible

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Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Question

Language

Hebrew

Time

931 BC 930s BC 10th century BC

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Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible, New King James Version. Thomas Nelson, 1982. (Ecclesiastes 1:2-3).

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I was in love with a man who could never love me back. I was living in a fairytale.

Big Fish

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Unrequited love

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Jenny

Actor

Helena Bonham Carter

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Big Fish

Medium

Film

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Fantasy (film) Comedy drama (film) Fantasy Comedy drama

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English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Big Fish. Directed by Tim Burton, Columbia Pictures/Jinks/Cohen Company/The Zanuck Company, 2003.

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It is to believed because it is absurd.

Tertullian

On the Flesh of Christ

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Christianity Faith The absurd

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Tertullian

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On the Flesh of Christ

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Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

206 200s 3rd century

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Tertullian. De Carne Christi [On the Flesh of Christ]. c. 206, sect. 5.

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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

St. Jerome

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Willful ignorance Ignorance

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St. Jerome

Source

Letters of St. Jerome

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Letter

Language

Latin

Time

394 390s 4th century

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Classical antiquity

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Saint Jerome. Letter to Paulinus. c. 394.

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Saint Jerome. The Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2016.

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This is true love. You think this happens every day?

The Princess Bride

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True love

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Westley

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Cary Elwes

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The Princess Bride

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Film

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Comedy (film) Fantasy (film) Comedy Fantasy

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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The Princess Bride. Directed by Rob Reiner, Act III Communications/Buttercup Films/The Princess Bride Ltd., 1987.

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What should they know of England who only England know?

Rudyard Kipling

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Provincialism and insularity

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Rudyard Kipling

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The Flag of England

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1891 1890s 19th century

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The Flag of England." St. James’s Gazette/National Observer, 4 Apr. 1891.

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Kipling, Rudyard. "The English Flag." Kipling: Poems, edited by Peter Washington. Everyman's Library, 2007, st. 1.

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Man is a reasoning animal.

Seneca the Younger

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Nature of man Reason Man and animals

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Seneca the Younger

Source

Epistles (Seneca the Younger)

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Letter

Language

Latin

Time

65 60s 1st century

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Classical antiquity

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Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

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Man...has by nature a power...to preserve his property—that is, his life, liberty, and estate—against the injuries and attempts of other men.

John Locke

Two Treatises of Government

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Property rights Natural law

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John Locke

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Second Treatise of Civil Government Two Treatises of Government

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Treatise

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Political literature

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Precepts and axioms

Language

English

Time

1690 1690s 17th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Locke, John. "Second Treatise of Civil Government." Two Treatises of Government. London: Awnsham Churchill, 1690, ch. 7, sect. 87.

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Locke, John. Second Treatise of Civil Government, edited by C. B. Macpherson. Hackett Publishing Company, 1980, ch. 7, sect. 87.

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And distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

Acts 4:35

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Redistribution of resources Sharing Early Christians

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Book of Acts The Bible

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Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

62 60s 1st century

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Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Acts 4:35).

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Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Fake it 'til you make it Confidence

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Speech

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Advice

Language

English

Time

1905 1900s 20th century

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. Commencement speech. 28 June 1905, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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If I do marry, I want it to be for love.

Aladdin

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Marriage

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Princess Jasmine

Actor

Linda Larkin

Source

Aladdin

Medium

Film

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Animation (film) Musical (film) Animation Musical

Language

English

Time

1992 1990s 20th century

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Aladdin. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, Walt Disney Pictures/Walt Disney Feature Animation, 1992.

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The book of nature tells us distinctly that God cares not a rap for us—nor for any living creature.

Mark Twain

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Divine indifference Problem of evil God and man God

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Mark Twain

Source

Journals of Mark Twain

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

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Twain, Mark. Mark Twain's Notebook, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine. The Mark Twain Company, 1932, ch. 31. Originally from Notebook, c. 1898.

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And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.

Jesus

Matthew 24:14

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The Gospel Evangelism End times

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Jesus

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Gospel of Matthew The Bible

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Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

60 60s 1st century

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Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 24:14).

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Society does not consist of individuals; it expresses the sum of connections and relationships in which individuals find themselves.

Karl Marx

Grundrisse

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Man as social animal Interconnectedness of all people Society

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Karl Marx

Source

Grundrisse

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Political literature Economic literature

Language

German

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

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Marx, Karl. Grundisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie [Foundations of a Critique of Political Economy]. Marx–Engels Institute, 1939-1941.

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Marx, Karl. Fundamentals of a Critique of Political Economy, translated by Martin Nicolaus. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Colossians 3:18-19

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Gender roles Marriage Men and women

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Colossians The Bible

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Scripture

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Statement Type

Orders and commands

Language

Greek

Time

62 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Colossians 3:18-19).

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Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Knickerbocker

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Hard work Patience

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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A Psalm of Life The Knickerbocker

Medium

Poem Magazine

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1838 1830s 19th century

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, [published anonymously]. "A Psalm of Life." The Knickerbocker. New York: Lewis Gaylord Clark, Oct. 1838, I. 33.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "A Psalm of Life." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, I. 33.

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Whom they have injured they also hate.

Seneca the Younger

On Anger

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Hate

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Seneca the Younger

Source

On Anger

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

Language

Latin

Time

45 40s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Seneca the Younger. De Ira [On Anger]. c. 45 AD, bk. 2.

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Seneca the Younger. "Anger." Anger, Mercy, Revenge, translated by Robert A. Kaster and Martha C. Nussbaum. University of Chicago Press, 2010, bk. 2.

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Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Menander

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Marriage

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Menander

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Fragment

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Greek

Time

290 BC 290s BC 3rd century BC

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Classical antiquity

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Menander. Unidentified fragment 651. c. 300 BC.

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The moon's an arrant thief,
And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.

William Shakespeare

Timon of Athens

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The moon The sun

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Timon

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Timon of Athens

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. "Timon of Athens." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 4, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Timon of Athens." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 3.

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