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Since its very outset, it has been found necessary to conduct our Government by means of political parties. That system would not have survived from generation to generation if it had not been fundamentally sound and provided the best instrumentalities for the most complete expression of the popular will. It is not necessary to claim that it has always worked perfectly. It is enough to know that nothing better has been devised.

Calvin Coolidge

Second Inaugural Address of Calvin Coolidge

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Political parties American politics

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Calvin Coolidge

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Calvin Coolidge Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Coolidge, Calvin. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1925, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

A man is literally what he thinks.

James Allen

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Nature of man

Author

James Allen

Source

As a Man Thinketh

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

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Allen, James. As a Man Thinketh. 1903.

Current Citation

Allen, James. As a Man Thinketh: The Complete Original Edition. St. Martin's Essential, 2019.

The great design of art is to restore the decays that happened to human nature by the fall, by restoring order.

John Dennis

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Purpose of art Art

Author

John Dennis

Source

The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry

Medium

Treatise

Language

English

Time

1704 1700s 18th century

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Citation

Dennis, John. The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry. London: Geo. Strahan and Bernard Lintott, 1704, ch. 2.

I was hopping along, minding my own business, all of a sudden, up he comes, cures me! One minute I’m a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihood’s gone. Not so much as a by-your-leave! “You’re cured, mate.” Bloody do-gooder.

Monty Python's Life of Brian

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Topic

Making a living Begging Jesus

Speaker

Ex-Leper

Actor

Michael Palin

Source

Monty Python's Life of Brian

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Monty Python's Life of Brian. Directed by Terry Jones, Handmade Films/Python (Monty) Pictures, 1979.

If, when the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation...acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.

Richard Nixon

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Vietnam War America and the world

Speaker

Richard Nixon

Medium

Radio broadcast

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

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Nixon, Richard. Announcing major United States offensive into Cambodia. 30 Apr. 1970, The White House, Washington, DC, USA. Broadcast.

An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Henry Wotton

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Diplomacy Foreign policy International politics

Author

Henry Wotton

Language

Latin

Time

1604 1600s 17th century

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Wotton, Henry. Album of Christopher Fleckamore. c. 1604.

Pale death, the grand physician, cures all pain;
The dead rest well who lived for joys in vain.

John Clare

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Death as a blessing Death

Author

John Clare

Source

Child Harold

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1841 1840s 19th century

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Original Citation

Clare, John. Child Harold. c. 1840, I. 215.

Current Citation

Clare, John. "Child Harold." John Clare: Major Works, edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 215.

You have a problem with authority, Mr. Anderson. You believe that you are special, that somehow the rules do not apply to you. Obviously, you are mistaken.

The Matrix

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Topic

Resisting authority Authority The man

Speaker

Rhineheart

Actor

David Aston

Source

The Matrix

Medium

Film

Genre

Science fiction (film) Action (film) Science fiction Action

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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The Matrix. Directed by The Wachowskis. Warner Bros./Village Roadshow Pictures/Groucho II Film Partnership/Silver Pictures, 1999.

The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.

Henry Clay

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Abuse of power Power

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Henry Clay

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1834 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Clay, Henry. "On the State of the Country After the Removal of the Deposits." Senate meeting. 14 Mar. 1834, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

In the realm of the emotions, the real is indistinguishable from the imaginary.

Andre Gide

The Counterfeiters

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Emotions

Author

Andre Gide

Source

The Counterfeiters

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Gide, Andre. Les Faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters]. Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1925, pt. 1, ch. 8.

Current Citation

Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy. Penguin Books, 1990, pt. 1, ch. 8.

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

George Fox

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Good and evil Ocean and sea

Author

George Fox

Medium

Personal journal

Statement Type

Vision

Language

English

Time

1647 1640s 17th century

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Citation

Fox, George. Journal entry. c. 1647.

The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community... That in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.

John Quincy Adams

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Purpose of government

Author

John Quincy Adams

Language

English

Time

1845 1840s 19th century

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Adams, John Quincy. "Society and Civilization." The American Review, July 1845.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth-in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world-have not any subsistence without a mind... Their being is to be perceived or known.

George Berkeley

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

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Topic

The mind

Author

George Berkeley

Source

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1710 1710s 18th century

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Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge. Dublin: Jeremy Pepat, 1710, sect. 6.

Current Citation

Berkeley, George. A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, edited by Kenneth P. Winkler. Hackett Publishing Company, 1982, sect. 6.

The photographer is like the cod which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

George Bernard Shaw

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Photography

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Bernard Shaw's Appreciation of Coburn Camera Work

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1906 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "Bernard Shaw's Appreciation of Coburn." Camera Work, edited and published by Alfred Stieglitz, 1906, no. 15, p. 33.

We blossom and flourish as leaves on the tree,
To wither and perish- but nought changeth Thee.

Walter Chalmers Smith

God, All in All

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God and man Ephemeral nature of life Nature of God

Author

Walter Chalmers Smith

Source

God, All in All

Medium

Hymn Song

Language

English

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Smith, Walter Chalmers. "Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise." Hymns of Christ and the Christian Life. London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1867.

He had that nameless charm, with a strong magnetism which can only be called "it."

Elinor Glyn

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Charisma

Author

Elinor Glyn

Source

It

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Glyn, Elinor. "It." Cosmopolitan Magazine, Feb. - Mar. 1927.

Providence has given human wisdom the choice between two fates: either hope and agitation, or hopelessness and calm.

Yevgeny Baratynsky

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Hope Hopelessness and despair

Author

Yevgeny Baratynsky

Source

Two Fates

Medium

Poem

Language

Russian

Time

1823 1820s 19th century

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Baratynsky, Yevgeny. Two Fates. c. 1823.

From troubles of the world
I turn to ducks,
Beautiful comical things.

F.W. Harvey

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Ducks Animal descriptions

Author

F.W. Harvey

Source

Ducks

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Harvey, Frederick William. "Ducks." Ducks, and other Verses. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1919, I. 1.

Commuter-one who spends his life
In riding to and from his wife;
A man who shaves and takes a train,
And then rides back to shave again.

E.B. White

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Modern life Middle class life

Author

E.B. White

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Poem Magazine

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

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White, E. B. "The Commuter." The New Yorker, c. 1982.

There is a luring fallacy in the theory of banished barriers of trade, but preserved American standards require our higher production costs to be reflected in our tariffs on imports.

Warren G. Harding

Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding

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Protectionism Free trade

Speaker

Warren G. Harding

Source

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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Citation

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