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The tragedy of love is indifference.

William Somerset Maugham

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Unrequited love Dangers of love Love

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Neilson

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William Somerset Maugham

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Red The Trembling of a Leaf

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Short story

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English

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

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Maugham. William Somerset. The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands. George H. Doran Company, 1921.

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Great with child, and longing…for stewed prunes.

William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure

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Pregnancy

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Pompey Bum

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William Shakespeare

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Measure for Measure

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Play

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Comedy (play)

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English

Time

1616 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 2, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Measure for Measure." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 1.

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A cult is a religion with no political power.

Tom Wolfe

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Cults Religion

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Tom Wolfe

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In Our Time

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English

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1980 1980s 20th century

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Wolfe, Tom. "Entr'actes and Canapes." In Our Time. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980.

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Renoir painted his whole life long, down to his very last day. He painted a little still life of fruit, in bed, the day before he died.

Henri Matisse

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Self-discipline Dedication Hard work

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Henri Matisse

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Interview

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French

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

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Matisse, Henri. Chatting with Henri Matisse: The Lost 1941 Interview. Interviewed by Pierre Courthion, edited by Serge Guilbaut, translated by Chris Miller. Getty Publications, 2013, p. 90.

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Legitimate strife in business should not be superseded by an enforced concession to the demands of combinations that have the power to destroy, nor should the people to be served lose the benefit of cheapness which usually results from wholesome competition. These aggregations and combinations frequently constitute conspiracies against the interests of the people, and in all their phases they are unnatural and opposed to our American sense of fairness.

Grover Cleveland

Second Inaugural Address of Grover Cleveland

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Monopoly Business competition Corporate power

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Grover Cleveland

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Second Inaugural Address of Grover Cleveland Presidential inaugural address

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English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

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Cleveland, Grover. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1893, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

William James

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Indecision Decisions and choices

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William James

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The Principles of Psychology

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Psychological literature

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English

Time

1890 1890s 19th century

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James, William. The Principles of Psychology. Vol. 1, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890, ch. 4.

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I always say, religion is a fine thing, taken in moderation.

Trading Places

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Religion

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Coleman

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Denholm Elliott

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Trading Places

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Film

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Comedy

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English

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1983 1980s 20th century

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Trading Places. Directed by John Landis, Paramount Pictures Studios/Cinema Group Ventures, 1983.

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No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Graham Greene

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Existential solitude Empathy

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Graham Greene

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The Heart of the Matter

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Novel

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English

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1948 1940s 20th century

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Greene, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. William Heinemann/The Viking Press, 1948, bk. 1, pt. 3, ch. 1, sec. 1.

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One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

John Donne

Songs and Sonnets

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The afterlife

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John Donne

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Sonnet X Songs and Sonnets

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Poem

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English

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1631 1630s 17th century

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Donne, John. "Sonnet X." Songs and Sonnets. London, 1633, I. 13.

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Donne, John. "Holy Sonnet X." Selected Poems. Penguin Classics, 2007, I. 13.

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Think of our world as it looks from the rocket that is heading toward Mars. It is like a child's globe, hanging in space, the continents stuck to its side like colored maps. We are all fellow passengers on a dot of earth. And each of us, in the span of time, has really only a moment among our companions. How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Absurdity of war The earth

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Second Inaugural Address of Lyndon Baines Johnson

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Speech

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Political speech

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English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

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Johnson, Lyndon B. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1965, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The first half of this century has been marked by unprecedented and brutal attacks on the rights of man, and by the two most frightful wars in history. The supreme need of our time is for men to learn to live together in peace and harmony.

Harry Truman

Second Inaugural Address of Harry Truman

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20th century Authoritarianism International politics

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Harry Truman

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Second Inaugural Address of Harry Truman Presidential inaugural address

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1949 1940s 20th century

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Truman, Harry S. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1949, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The great tragedy of Science-the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

T.H. Huxley

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T.H. Huxley

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Biogenesis and Abiogenesis

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English

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1870 1870s 19th century

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis." British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting. 1870, London, England, UK.

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It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.

O. Henry

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Swindles and scams

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O. Henry

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The Octopus Marooned The Gentle Grafter

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Short story

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English

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1908 1900s 20th century

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O. Henry. "The Octopus Marooned." The Gentle Grafter. The McClure Company, 1908.

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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw

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Happiness

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Morell

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George Bernard Shaw

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Candida Plays Pleasant

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Play

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Drama (play) Comedy (play)

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English

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1894 1890s 19th century

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Candida." 30 Mar. 1894, Theatre Royal, South Shields, London, England, UK, act 1.

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Shaw, George Bernard. Candida. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 1.

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Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon

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Reading Writing Books

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Francis Bacon

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Of Studies Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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Essay

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English

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1625 1620s 17th century

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European Renaissance

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Bacon, Francis. "Of Studies." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Studies." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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None of you Americans smoke anymore. You all live long, dull, and uninteresting lives.

Black Hawk Down

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Americans Smoking

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Firimbi

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Treva Etienne

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Black Hawk Down

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Film

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War (film) War

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English

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2001 2000s 21st century

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Black Hawk Down. Directed by Ridley Scott, Scott Free Productions/Revolution Studios/Columbia Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer Films, 2001.

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Time passes. Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

Joan Didion

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Memory

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Joan Didion

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Blue Nights

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Autobiography and memoir

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English

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2011 2010s 21st century

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Didion, Joan. Blue Nights. Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

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From this point onwards history becomes an organic whole: the affairs of Italy and Africa are connected with those of Asia and of Greece, and all events bear a relationship and contribute to a single end.

Polybius

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Globalization Interconnectedness of all people

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Polybius

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Histories (Polybius)

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Historical literature

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Greek

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117 BC 110s BC 2nd century BC

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Classical antiquity

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Polybius. Ἱστορίαι [Histories]. c. 110 BC, bk. 1.

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Polybius. The Histories, translated by W. R. Paton. Vol. 1, Harvard University Press, 2010, bk. 1.

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These unhappy times call for the building of plans that... Build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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New Deal The common man American politics

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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English

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1932 1930s 20th century

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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. "The Forgotten Man Speech." 7 April 1932, Albany, NY, USA.

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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

W. Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage

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Changing one's mind Rigidity

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W. Somerset Maugham

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Of Human Bondage

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Novel

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English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

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Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. George H. Doran Company, 1915, ch. 39.

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Maugham, William Somerset. Of Human Bondage. Signet, 2007, ch. 39.

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