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A community where law is the rule of conduct and where courts, not mobs, execute its penalties is the only attractive field for business investments and honest labor.

Benjamin Harrison

Inaugural Address of Benjamin Harrison

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Rule of law

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Benjamin Harrison

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Inaugural Address of Benjamin Harrison Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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English

Time

1889 1880s 19th century

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Harrison, Benjamin. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1889, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

Karl Popper

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Science and religion Science Myth

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Karl Popper

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Lecture

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English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Popper, Karl. "Philosophy of Science: A Personal Report." British Philosophy in the Mid-Century: A Cambridge Symposium, edited by C. A. Mace. Cambridge University Press, 1957.

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We believe that all men have a right to equal justice under law and equal opportunity to share in the common good. We believe that all men have a right to freedom of thought and expression. We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God.

Harry Truman

Second Inaugural Address of Harry Truman

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Human rights

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Harry Truman

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Second Inaugural Address of Harry Truman Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Language

English

Time

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 first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 2

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Lawyers

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Dick the Butcher

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William Shakespeare

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Henry VI, Part 2

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play)

Language

English

Time

1594 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. Henry the Sixth, Part 2. London: Thomas Millington, 1594, act 4, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Second Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 2.

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Drive out prejudices through the door, and they will return through the window.

Frederick the Great

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Prejudice and bias Human nature

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Frederick the Great

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Letters of Frederick the Great

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Letter

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German

Time

1771 1770s 18th century

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Frederick the Great. Letter to Voltaire. 19 Mar. 1771.

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In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Montesquieu

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Success Persistence

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Montesquieu

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Essay

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French

Time

1755 1750s 18th century

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Montesquieu. Pensees et fragments inedits De Montesquieu [Thoughts and Unpublished Fragments of Montesquieu]. G. Gounouilhou, 1901.

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Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned... Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones.

Ptahhotep

The Maxims of Ptahhotep

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Learning from others Curiosity Appearance vs. reality

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Ptahhotep

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The Maxims of Ptahhotep

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Wisdom literature

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Advice

Language

Egyptian/Hieroglypics

Time

2375 BC 2370s BC 24th century BC

Era

Egyptian Middle Kingdom

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Ptahhotep. The Maxims of Ptahhotep. c. 2375, maxim 1.

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They'll tell thee, sailors, when away,
In ev'ry port a mistress find.

John Gay

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Sailors Sailing

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John Gay

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Sweet William's Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan

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Song

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English

Time

1720 1720s 18th century

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Gay, John. "Sweet William's Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan." Poems on Several Occasions. London: Jacob Tonson and Bernard Lintot, 1720, I. 27.

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Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money if all you want is to make a lot of money.

Citizen Kane

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Making money Money Wealth

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Mr. Bernstein

Actor

Everett Sloane

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Citizen Kane

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Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

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Citizen Kane. Directed by Orson Welles. RKO Radio Pictures/Mercury Productions, 1941.

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Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

Chris McCandless

Into the Wild

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Isolation Loneliness

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Chris McCandless

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Emile Hirsch

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Into the Wild

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Film

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Biography (film) Adventure drama (film) Biography Adventure drama

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English

Time

2007 2000s 21st century

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Into the Wild. Directed by Sean Penn, Paramount Vantage/River Road Entertainment/Square One C.I.H./Linson Film, 2007.

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That which in England we call the middle class is in America virtually the nation.

Matthew Arnold

A Word About America

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England and America America Middle class

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Matthew Arnold

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A Word About America

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English

Time

1882 1880s 19th century

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Arnold, Matthew. "A Word About America." The Nineteenth Century. London: Kegan Paul, May 1882.

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Nothing to my way of thinking is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in their own company.

Seneca the Younger

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Solitude

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Seneca the Younger

Source

Letters of Seneca the Younger

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Letter

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Philosophical literature

Language

Latin

Time

65 60s 1st century

Era

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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The offense of riding or going armed, with dangerous or unusual weapons, is a crime against the public peace, by terrifying the good people of the land.

William Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England

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Open carry Gun rights Criminal law

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William Blackstone

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Commentaries on the Laws of England

Medium

Treatise

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1769 1760s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Law of England: Book the Fourth. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1769, ch. 11.

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Blackstone, William. Commentaries on the Laws of England: Book IV Of Public Wrongs, edited by David Lemmings. Oxford University Press, 2016, ch. 11.

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Love, friendship, respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Anton Chekhov

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Love and hate Hate Unity

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Anton Chekhov

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Personal journal

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Russian

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

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Chekhov, Anton. Diary entry. c. 1885.

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Chekhov, Anton. The Notebooks of Anton Chekhov and Reminiscences of Chekhov, translated by S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf. University Press of the Pacific, 2002.

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I consider the veto power, therefore given by the Constitution to the Executive of the United States solely as a conservative power, to be used only first, to protect the Constitution from violation; secondly, the people from the effects of hasty legislation where their will has been probably disregarded or not well understood, and, thirdly, to prevent the effects of combinations violative of the rights of minorities.

William Henry Harrison

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison

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Veto Constitutional theory US Constitution

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William Henry Harrison

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Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Language

English

Time

1841 1840s 19th century

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Harrison, William Henry. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1841, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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O bed! O bed! delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head.

Thomas Hood

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Sleep

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Thomas Hood

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English

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1840 1840s 19th century

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Hood, Thomas. "Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg." New Monthly Magazine, Oct. 1840 - Feb. 1841.

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Hood, Thomas. "Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.

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A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

William Hazlitt

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Nicknames Names

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William Hazlitt

Source

On Nicknames

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Essay

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English

Time

1839 1830s 19th century

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Hazlitt, William. "Nicknames." Sketches and Essays. London: John Templeman, 1839.

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If parties in a republic are necessary to secure a degree of vigilance sufficient to keep the public functionaries within the bounds of law and duty, at that point their usefulness ends. Beyond that they become destructive of public virtue, the parent of a spirit antagonist to that of liberty, and eventually its inevitable conqueror.

William Henry Harrison

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison

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Partisan politics Political theory

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William Henry Harrison

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Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Language

English

Time

1841 1840s 19th century

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Harrison, William Henry. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1841, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Architecture

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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The New York Times Magazine

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Magazine

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English

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

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Wright, Frank Lloyd. "What Every Budding Architect Should Know." The New York Times Magazine, 4 Oct. 1953.

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The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure; he continually restricts what he can enjoy; in the constant exercise of his good taste he will eventually price himself out of the market, so to speak.

Susan Sontag

Notes on Camp

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Good taste Taste

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Susan Sontag

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Notes on Camp Against Interpretation

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Essay

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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Sontag, Susan. "Notes on 'Camp.'" Partisan Review, Fall 1964.

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