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Only the brave know how to forgive... A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Laurence Sterne

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Courage Forgiveness

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Laurence Sterne

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English

Time

1760 1760s 18th century

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Sterne, Laurence. The Sermons of Mr. Yorick. Vol. 1, London: R. & J. Dodsley, 1760, no. 12.

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But there was one other thing that the grownups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there. The chance had to be there.

Roald Dahl

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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Luck Probability

Author

Roald Dahl

Source

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Medium

Novel

Genre

Children's literature

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.

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Is not this simplier? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity, that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power, for identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel.

The Avengers

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Human nature

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Loki

Actor

Tom Hiddleston

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The Avengers

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Film

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Superhero (film) Superhero

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English

Time

2012 2010s 21st century

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The Avengers. Directed by Joss Whedon, Marvel Studios, 2012.

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We know the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm?

John Page

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Randomness American Revolution

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John Page

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1776 1770s 18th century

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Page, John. Letter to Thomas Jefferson. 20 July 1776.

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Page, John. Quoted in Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War, written by Michael Kranish. Oxford University Press, 2010.

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To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Samuel Butler

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Life Love

Author

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

Source

Journals of Samuel Butler

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

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Butler, Samuel. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, edited by Henry Festing Jones. A. C. Fifield, 1912, ch. 14.

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So this was GM chairman Roger Smith. And he appeared to have a brilliant plan: First, close 11 factories in the U. S., then open 11 in Mexico where you pay the workers 70 cents an hour. Then, use the money you've saved by building cars in Mexico to take over other companies, preferably high-tech firms and weapons manufacturers. Next, tell the union you're broke and they happily agree to give back a couple billion dollars in wage cuts. You then take that money from the workers, and eliminate their jobs by building more foreign factories. Roger Smith was a true genius.

Roger and Me

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Deindustrialization Business strategy

Speaker

Michael Moore

Actor

Michael Moore

Source

Roger and Me

Genre

Documentary (film)

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Roger and Me. Directed by Michael Moore, Dog Eat Dog Films, 1989.

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Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

Iris Murdoch

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Love Vulnerability

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Iris Murdoch

Source

Chicago Review

Medium

Magazine

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

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Murdoch, Iris. "The Sublime and the Good." Chicago Review, vol. 13, no. 3, autumn 1959.

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It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

William Whewell

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The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences

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Scientific theory

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William Whewell

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The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences

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Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1840 1840s 19th century

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Whewell, William. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History. Vol. 1, London: John W. Parker, 1840.

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Whewell, William. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Art allows you to imbue the truth with a sort of magic, so it can infiltrate the psyches of more people, including those who don't believe the same things as you.

Wangechi Mutu

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Nature of art Art

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Wangechi Mutu

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2014 2010s 21st century

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Mutu, Wangechi. Quoted in 33 Artists in 3 Acts, written by Sarah Thornton. W. W. Norton & Company, 2014, p. 59. Originally an interview with Sarah Thornton, c. 2013.

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Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Tennyson

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Fresh start Progress New Year

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Alfred Tennyson

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In Memoriam A.H.H.

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1850 1850s 19th century

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. In Memoriam A.H.H. London: Edward Moxon, 1850, pt. 106, st. 1.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "In Memoriam A.H.H." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009 pt. 106, st. 1.

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A great nose indicates a great man-
Genial, courteous, intellectual,
Virile, courageous.

Edmond Rostand

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Noses Body parts

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Cyrano de Bergerac

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Edmond Rostand

Source

Cyrano de Bergerac

Medium

Play

Language

French

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

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Rostand, Edmond. Cyrano de Bergerac. 27 Dec. 1897, Theatre de la Porte Saint-Martin, Paris, France, act 1, sc. 4.

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Rostand, Edmond. Cyrano de Bergerac, translated by Lowell Bair. Signet, 2012, act 1, sc. 4.

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It's not a question of enough, pal. It's a zero sum game, somebody wins, somebody loses. Money itself isn't lost or made, it's simply transferred from one perception to another.

Gordon Gekko

Wall Street

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Zero sum games Finance

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Gordon Gekko

Actor

Michael Douglas

Source

Wall Street

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Wall Street. Directed by Oliver Stone, American Entertainment Partners/American Films, 1987.

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Every man hath a good and bad angel attending on him in particular, all his life long.

Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy

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Duality of man

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Robert Burton

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The Anatomy of Melancholy

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Philosophical literature

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English

Time

1621 1620s 17th century

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1621, pt. 1.

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by Holbrook Jackson. New York Review Books, 2001, pt. 1.

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Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Immigration Assimilation

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Maxine Hong Kingston

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The Woman Warrior

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Kingston, Maxine Hong. "No Name Woman." The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.

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Mathematics takes us still further from what is human, into the region of absolute necessity, to which only the actual world, but every possible world, must conform.

Bertrand Russell

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Mathematics Laws of physics

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Bertrand Russell

Source

The Study of Mathematics The New Quarterly

Medium

Essay Magazine

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

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Russell, Bertrand. "The Study of Mathematics." The New Quarterly, Nov. 1907.

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Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have broadened the circle of those we love... If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.

Carl Sagan

Cosmos

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Empathy Interconnectedness of all people History

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Carl Sagan

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Cosmos

Medium

TV program

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Sagan, Carl. Cosmos. Random House, 1980.

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Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, and infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

Molly Haskell

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Single women Single life Patriarchy

Author

Molly Haskell

Source

Love and Other Infectious Diseases

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Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Haskell, Molly. Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir. William Morrow, 1990.

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The saying is true: “The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.”

William Shakespeare

Henry V

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Talking too much

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Boy

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William Shakespeare

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Henry V

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play)

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1599 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. Henry V. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1599, The Curtain, Shoreditch, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 4.

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

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Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

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Creativity Innovation The individual Committees

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Alfred Whitney Griswold

Source

Address at Yale University

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Griswold, Alfred Whitney. Address at Yale University. 9 Jun. 1957, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

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There never can be equality of rewards or possessions so long as the human plan contains varied talents and differing degrees of industry and thrift, but ours ought to be a country free from the great blotches of distressed poverty.

Warren G. Harding

Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding

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Natural inequality Poverty Economic inequality

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Warren G. Harding

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Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

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Harding, William G. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1921, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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