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In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Francis Darwin

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Credit Discovery Science

Author

Francis Darwin

Language

English

Time

1914 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Darwin, Francis. "Francis Galton." Eugenics Review, April 1914.

"You", your joys and your sorrows, your memories and ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.

Francis Crick

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Topic

Free will The soul Nature of man

Author

Francis Crick

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Crick, Frances. The Astonishing Hypothesis: The Scientific Search for the Soul. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1994, ch. 1.

O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'its the mode of the day: but the acknowledgement passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.

Frances Burney

Camilla

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Topic

Self-criticism Self-improvement

Speaker

Mrs. Arlbery

Author

Frances Burney

Source

Camilla

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Burney, Frances. Camilla. London: T. Payne and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1796.

Current Citation

Burney, Frances. Camilla. Oxford University Press, 2009.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to county, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Topic

Philosophy Philosophers Travel Wandering

Author

Oliver Goldsmith

Source

The Citizen of the World

Medium

Novel

Genre

Satire

Language

English

Time

1761 1760s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Citation

Goldsmith, Oliver. "Letter VII." The Citizen of the World; or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher. Dublin: George and Alex. Ewing, 1762. Originally published in The Public Ledger, Jan. 1760 - Aug. 1761.

Life can be wonderful as well as terrible, and we shall increasingly have the power to make life good. Since human history may be only just beginning, we can expect that future humans, or supra-humans, may achieve some great goods that we cannot now even imagine. In Nietzsche’s words, there has never been such a new dawn and clear horizon, and such an open sea.

Derek Parfit

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Topic

Moral progress Nature of life Progress

Author

Derek Parfit

Source

On What Matters

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

2017 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Parfit, Derek. On What Matters. Vol. 3, Oxford University Press, 2017.

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

George Santayana

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Topic

Atheism Man and the universe

Author

George Santayana

Source

On My Friendly Critics Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Santayana, George. "On My Friendly Critics." Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies. Charles Scribner's Sons/Constable and Co., 1922.

Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go-and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

Wernher von Braun

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Topic

Space travel Space

Speaker

Wernher von Braun

Source

Space: Reach for the Stars Time Magazine

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Von Braun, Werner. "Space: Reach for the Stars." Time, 17 Feb. 1958.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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Topic

Getting what you want How to live

Author

Logan Pearsall Smith

Source

Afterthoughts

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1931 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Smith, Logan Pearsall. "Life and Human Nature." Afterthoughts. Constable & Company, 1931.

Yeah, there's a lot of bad 'isms' floatin' around this world, but one of the worst is commercialism. Make a buck, make a buck. Even in Brooklyn it's the same. Don't care what Christmas stands for, just make a buck, make a buck.

Miracle on 34th Street

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Topic

Consumerism

Speaker

Alfred

Actor

Alvin Greenman

Source

Miracle on 34th Street

Medium

Film

Genre

Christmas (film) Comedy drama (film) Christmas Comedy drama

Language

English

Time

1947 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Miracle on 34th Street. Directed by George Seaton, 20th Century Fox, 1947.

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky-and it would be so much less fun if we were... Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily.

Jean Rhys

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Topic

Yin and yang

Author

Jean Rhys

Source

Good Morning, Midnight

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Rhys, Jean. Good Morning, Midnight. Constable Press, 1939.

Current Citation

Rhys, Jean. Good Morning, Midnight. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

Francis Ford Coppola

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Topic

Nature of art Taking risks Originality Art

Speaker

Francis Ford Coppola

Source

Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration 99U Magazine

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Coppola, Francis Ford. "Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration." Interviewed by Ariston Anderson. The Behance Blog, 5 Jan. 2011.

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

Luis Walter Alvarez

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Topic

Physics

Speaker

Luis Walter Alvarez

Source

The Politics of Pure Science

Genre

Scientific literature Political literature

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Alvarez, Luis Walter. Quoted in The Politics of Pure Science, written by Daniel S. Greenberg. New American Library, 1967.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Stephen Jay Gould

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Nature of science Science

Author

Stephen Jay Gould

Source

The Independent

Genre

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Gould, Stephen Jay. Independent. 24 Jan. 1990.

The world of the 20th century, if it is to come to life in any nobility of health and vigor, must be to a significant degree an Amirian century.

Henry Luce

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20th century

Author

Henry Luce

Source

The American Century Life Magazine

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Luce, Henry. "The American Century." Life Magazine, Feb. 1941.

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Omar Bradley

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Topic

Nuclear weapons Moral progress Technological progress Progress

Speaker

Omar Bradley

Source

Armistice Day Speech (Speech)

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Bradley, Omar. "Armistice Day Speech, November 10, 1948." The Collected Writings of General Omar N. Bradley. Vol. 1, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1967. Originally a speech at an Armistice Day Celebration. 10 Nov. 1948, Boston Chamber of Commerence, Boston, MA, USA.

I will cling to the old rugged cross,
And exchange it some day for a crown.

George Bennard

The Old Rugged Cross

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Topic

The crucifixion Forgiveness Eternal life

Author

George Bennard

Source

The Old Rugged Cross

Medium

Hymn Song

Language

English

Time

1912 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Bennard, George. "The Old Rugged Cross." Heart and Life Songs for the Church, Sunday School, Home, and Campmeeting. 1915.

The policy is obliteration, openly acknowledged. This is not a justifiable act of war.

George Bell

On the Allied policy of widspread bombing of Berlin and other German cities in 1944.

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Topic

Total war War crimes War World War II

Speaker

George Bell

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Bell, George. "Speech Opposing Area Bombing." House of Lords meeting. 9 Feb. 1944, Westminster, London, England, UK.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true…But of course a true proposition is more apt to be interesting than a false one.

Alfred North Whitehead

Adventures of Ideas

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Topic

Ideas

Author

Alfred North Whitehead

Source

Adventures of Ideas

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Whitehead, Alfred North. Adventures of Ideas. The Macmillan Company/Simon and Schuster, 1933, ch. 16, sec. 3.

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we…remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment unpopular.

Edward R. Murrow

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Topic

Red Scare Dissent

Speaker

Edward R. Murrow

Source

See It Now

Medium

TV program

Language

English

Time

1954 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Murrow, Edward R. See It Now. CBS, 9 Mar. 1954.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Carl Jung

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Topic

Raising kids Parents and children Change starts at home Self-improvement Personal growth

Author

Carl Jung

Source

The Development of Personality

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jung, Carl. The Integration of Personality, translated by Stanley Dell. Farrar & Rinehart, 1939.