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I say you ought to get rich, and it is your duty to get rich... Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it! You ought because you can do more good with it than you could without it.

Russell H. Conwell

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Topic

Wealth

Speaker

Russell H. Conwell

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1882 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Conwell, Russell H. "Acres of Diamonds." Chautauqua circuit. c. 1882. Lecture.

This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world and terrorism. We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

Tony Blair

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Topic

September 11th War on Terrorism

Speaker

Tony Blair

Source

Statement following the 9-11 attacks, September 11, 2001

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Blair, Tony. Statement after September 11th attacks. 11 Sept. 2001, London, England, UK. Broadcast.

You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war... The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

John Foster Dulles

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Topic

Brinkmanship Taking risks War

Speaker

John Foster Dulles

Source

Life Magazine

Medium

Interview

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Dulles, John Foster. "How Dulles Averted War: Three Times, New Disclosures Show, He Brought U.S. Back from the Brink." Interviewed by James Shepley. Life Magazine, 16 Jan. 1956. 

I am certain, however, that nothing has done so much to destroy the juridical safeguards of individual freedom as the striving after this mirage of social justice.

Friedrich Hayek

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Topic

Threats to freedom

Author

Friedrich Hayek

Source

Economic Freedom and Representative Government

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Von Hayek, Friedrich August. "Economic Freedom and Representative Government." Fourth Wincott Memorial Lecture. 31 Oct. 1973, The Royal Society of Arts, London, England, UK.

A desire for wealth is the source of all progress. Civilization comes from what men call greed. Let your mercenary tendencies be combined with honesty and they cannot take you astray.

Anthony Trollope

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Topic

Greed Capitalism Progress

Speaker

Plantagenet Palliser

Author

Anthony Trollope

Source

Can You Forgive Her?

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Trollope, Anthony. Can You Forgive Her? 1864-1865. Serial.

Current Citation

Trollope, Anthony. Can You Forgive Her? Penguin Classics, 1975.

A cigarette that bears a lipstick's traces,
An airline ticket to romantic places;
And still my heart has wings
These foolish things
Remind me of you.

Holt Marvell

These Foolish Things Remind Me of You

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Topic

Being in love Memories

Speaker

Holt Marvell

Source

These Foolish Things Remind Me of You

Medium

Song

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Maschwitz, Eric (published as Holt Marvell). "These Foolish Things Remind Me of You." Composed by Jack Strachey. Boosey & Hawkes, 1935.

I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly, because they're surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable.

Robert Rauschenberg

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Topic

Modern life

Speaker

Robert Rauschenberg

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rauschenberg, Robert. Quoted in The Bride & the Bachelors: The Heretical Courtship in Modern Art, by Calvin Tomkins. Viking Press, 1965.

Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.

Luke 15:6

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Topic

Sheep Reconciliation with God

Source

Gospel of Luke The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

Greek

Time

61 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 3

Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Luke 15:6).

Instead of holding a position of independence, between the wealthy and the people, prepared to curb the excesses of either, able lawyers have, to a large extent, allowed themselves to become adjuncts of great corporations and have neglected the obligation to use their powers for the protection of the people. We hear much of the "corporation lawyer," and far too little of the "people's lawyer."

Louis Brandeis

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Topic

Lawyers

Speaker

Louis Brandeis

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1905 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Brandeis, Louis D. "The Opportunity in the Law." Harvard Ethical Society meeting. 4 May 1905, Phillips Brooks House, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Brandeis, Louis D. "The Opportunity in the Law" Brandeis on Democracy, edited by Philippa Strum. University Press of Kansas, 1994.

The part of our moral theory... That covers how we affect future generations... Is the most important part of our moral theory, since the next few centuries will be the most important in human history.

Derek Parfit

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Topic

Moral theory Moral progress The future

Author

Derek Parfit

Source

Reasons and Persons

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1984 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Parfit, Derek. Reasons and Persons. Oxford University Press, 1984.

This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin handed the German Government a final Note stating that unless we heard from them by 11 0'clock that they were prepared at once to withdraw their troops from Poland a state of war would exist between us. I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.

Neville Chamberlain

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Topic

World War II

Speaker

Neville Chamberlain

Medium

Radio broadcast Speech

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Chamberlain, Neville. Radio address. 3 Sept. 1939, Cabinet Room, 10 Downing Street, London, England, UK.

We find it’s always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there’s less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week.

Office Space

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Topic

Getting fired Corporate America Days of the week

Speaker

Bob Slydell

Actor

John C. McGinley

Source

Office Space

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Office Space. Directed by Mike Judge, Judgemental Films, 1999.

The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well.

Baron Pierre de Coubertin

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Topic

Winning

Speaker

Baron Pierre de Coubertin

Medium

Speech

Language

French

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

De Coubertin, Pierre. Banquet given by the British Government. 24 July 1908, Grafton Galleries, London, England, UK.

Everybody I have ever known or read about who was really a great artist has worked until they dropped dead.

Arnold Newman

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Topic

Artistic development Hard work Excellence Art

Speaker

Arnold Newman

Source

American Suburban X

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2009 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Newman, Arnold. Interviewed by Alexis Anne Clements. American Suburb X, 20 Oct. 2009, www.americansuburbx.com/2009/10/interview-interview-with-arnold-newman.html.

The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.

Joseph Chamberlain

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Topic

Imperialism

Speaker

Joseph Chamberlain

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1904 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Chamberlain, Joseph. Quoted in The Times. 13 May 1904. Originally spoken during a speech on 12 May 1904, Birmingham, England, UK.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming... This all sounds very strenuous and serious. But now that I have wrestled with it, it's no longer so. I feel happy-deep down. All is well.

Katherine Mansfield

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Topic

Understanding oneself Reaching one's potential

Author

Katherine Mansfield

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Mansfield, Katherine. Diary entry. 17 Oct. 1922.

Current Citation

Mansfield, Katherine. Journal of Katherine Mansfield, edited by J. Middleton Murry. Persephone, 2006.

Taxation and representation are inseparable... Whatever is a man's own, is absolutely his own; no man hath a right to take it from him withough his consent either expressed by himself or representative; whoever attempts to do it, attempts an injury; whoever does it, commits a robbery; he throws down and destroys the distinction between liberty and slavery.

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

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Topic

Taxation without representation Taxes

Speaker

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden

Source

On the Declaratory Bill of the Sovereignty of Great-Britain over the Colonies.

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1766 1760s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Citation

Lord Camden. "On the Declatory Bill of the Sovereignty of Great-Britain over the Colonies." House of Lords, 10 Feb. 1766, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties; and that in its government the deliberative forces should prevail over the arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Louis Brandeis

Whitney v. California

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Topic

Purpose of government Freedom

Author

Louis Brandeis

Source

Whitney v. California

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Brandeis, Louis. United States, Supreme Court. Whitney v. California. United States Reports, vol. 274, 16 May 1927, pp. 357-379. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/274/357/.

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra just for you.

Philip Larkin

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Topic

Parents and children Trauma Childhood

Author

Philip Larkin

Source

This Be the Verse High Windows

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1971 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Larkin, Philip. "This Be the Verse." High Windows. Faber & Faber Limited, 1974. Originally published in New Humanist, Aug. 1971.

In this century, which is the century of light and the revelation of mysteries... It is well established that mankind and womankind as parts of composite humanity are coequal and that no difference in estimate is allowable, for all are human.

Abdu'l-Bahá

The Promulgation of Universal Peace

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Topic

Equality Men and women Gender relations Women's rights

Speaker

Abdu'l-Bahá

Source

The Promulgation of Universal Peace

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1912 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Baha, Abdul. Speech at woman's suffrage meeting. 20 May 1912, Metropolitan Temple, New York City, NY, USA.

Current Citation

Baha, Abdul. "May 20, 1912, at Metropolitan Temple, Seventh Avenue and Fourteenth St., New York. Woman's Suffrage Meeting." The Promulgation of Universal Peace. Baha'i Publishing, 2012.