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To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest... The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Alfred Adler

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Inferiority complex Human psychology Human nature

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Alfred Adler

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The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler

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English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Adler, Alfred. The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler, edited by H. L. Ansbacher and R. R. Ansbacher. Harper Torchbooks, 1964.

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I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

Roland Barthes

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Cars Churches

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Roland Barthes

Source

La nouvelle Citroën

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Essay

Language

French

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Barthes, Roland. "La nouvelle Citroën." Mythologies. Seuil, 1957.

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No set of legal institutions or prescriptions exists apart from the narratives that locate it and give it meaning. For every constitution, there is an epic, for each decalogue a scripture. Once understood in the context of the narratives that give it meaning, law becomes not merely a system of rules to be observed, but a world in which we live.

Robert M. Cover

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Nomos and Narrative

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Stories Law

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Robert M. Cover

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Nomos and Narrative Harvard Law Review

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Legal writing

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English

Time

1983 1980s 20th century

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Cover, Robert M. "Foreword: Nomos and Narrative." Harvard Law Review, Nov. 1983. Originally a foreword to the Supreme Court 1982 term.

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The other America, the America of poverty, is hidden today in a way that it never was before. Its millions are socially invisible to the rest of us... The very development of American society is creating a new kind of blindness about poverty. The poor are increasingly slipping out of the very experience and consciousness of the nation.

Michael Harrington

The Other America

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America Poverty

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Michael Harrington

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The Other America

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Sociology

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English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Harrington, Michael. The Other America: Poverty in the United States. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1962, ch. 1.

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In a dying culture, narcissism appears to embody-in the guise of personal "growth" and "awareness"-the highest attainment of spiritual enlightenment. The custodians of culture hope, at bottom, merely to survive its collapse.

Christopher Lasch

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The Culture of Narcissism

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Decadence Personal growth

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Christopher Lasch

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The Culture of Narcissism

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Sociology

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English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

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Lasch, Christopher. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. W. W. Norton & Company, 1979, ch. 10.

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We are a facing a mood and a movement far transcending the level of issues and policies and the governments that pursue them. This is no less than a clash of civilization-the perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular preseent, and the worldwide expansion of both.

Bernard Lewis

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Clash of civilizations Islam

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Bernard Lewis

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The Roots of Muslim Rage

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Essay

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English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

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Lewis, Bernard. "The Roots of Muslim Rage." The Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 1990.

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The Germans, if this Government is returned, are going to pay every penny; they are going to be squeezed as a lemon is squeezed-until the pips squeak.

Eric Geddes

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Germany World War I World War II

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Eric Geddes

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Speech

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Political speech

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English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

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Geddes, Eric. Speech in Cambridge. 10 Dec. 1918, Cambridge, England, UK.

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By the "Establishment," I do not mean only the centers of official power-though they are certainly part of it-but rather the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power is exercised.

Henry Fairlie

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The man Elites

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Henry Fairlie

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The Spectator

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Magazine

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English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Fairlie, Henry. "How The Spectator invented the Establishment." The Spectator, 23 Sept. 1955.

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A land ethic for tomorrow should be as honest as Thoreau's Walden, and as comprehensive as the sensitive science of ecology. It should stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life. If, in our haste to "progress," the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America.

Stewart Udall

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Conservation

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Stewart Udall

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The Quiet Crisis

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English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Udall, Stewart. The Quiet Crisis. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963, ch. 14.

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Ethnocentrism is the...view of things in which one's own group is the center of everything, and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it...Each group nourishes its own pride and vanity, boasts itself superior, exalts its own divinities, and looks with contempt on outsiders.

William Graham Sumner

Folkways

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Ethnocentrism Us vs. them

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William Graham Sumner

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Folkways

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Sociology

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English

Time

1906 1900s 20th century

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Sumner, William Graham. Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals. Ginn & Company, 1906, ch. 1.

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To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world-and, at the same time, that threatens to destroy everything we have, everything we know, everything we are.

Marshall Berman

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Modern life

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Marshall Berman

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All That Is Solid Melts into Air

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Economical literature Philosophical literature

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English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

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Berman, Marshall. All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. Simon and Schuster, 1982, introduction.

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Nothing changes more constantly that the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what actually happened, but what men believe happened.

Gerald White Johnson

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Nature of history History

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Gerald White Johnson

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American Heroes and Hero Worship

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Historical literature

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English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

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Johnson, Gerald W. American Heroes and Hero-Worship. Harper & Brothers, 1943.

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One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.

Steven Weinberg

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Science and religion

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Steven Weinberg

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Speech

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English

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1999 1990s 20th century

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Weinberg, Steven. "A Designer Universe." Conference on Cosmic Design. 1999, Washington, DC, USA. Speech.

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It isn't just that I don't believe in God... It's that I hope there is no God! I don't want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.

Thomas Nagel

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Belief in God Existence of God

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Thomas Nagel

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The Last Word

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Philosophical literature

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English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

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Nagel, Thomas. The Last Word. Oxford University Press, 1997, ch. 7.

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Although he is regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics, and in America disagreement with the policies of the government is not evidence of lack of patriotism.

George Mitchell

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Religion and politics God and America

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George Mitchell

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Congressional hearing

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English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Mitchell, George. Statement at Senate Hearings on Iran-Contra scandal. Senate Hearing on Iran-Contra scandal. 13 July 1987, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Mitchell, George. The Negotiator: A Memoir. Simon and Schuster, 2016.

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The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of "The Reasonable Man.".... He is an ideal, a standard, the embodiment of all those qualities which we demand of the good citizen.

A.P. Herbert

The Reasonable Man

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Legal theory Reasonableness Law

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A.P. Herbert

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The Reasonable Man

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Essay

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English

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1935 1930s 20th century

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Herbert, A. P. "The Reasonable Man." Uncommon Law. Methuen, 1935.

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Whatever good visits thee, it is of God; whatever evil visits thee is of thyself.

Muhammad

The Quran

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Goodness of God God Personal responsibility

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Muhammad

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The Quran

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Arabic

Time

632 630s 7th century

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The Quran. c. 630, 4:79.

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The Quran, translated by M. A. S. Abdel Haleem. Oxford University Press, 2005, ch. 4.

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The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

Homer

The Iliad

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Patience

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Homer

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The Iliad

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Poem

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Epic poem

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Greek

Time

700 BC 700s BC 8th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Homer. Ἰλιάς [The Iliad], edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles. Florence: Bernardus Nerlius and Demetrius Damilas, 1489, bk. 24, l. 49.

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Homer. The Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Oxford University Press, 2014, bk. 24, l. 49.

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Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

Aristotle

The Nicomachean Ethics

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Human nature Nature of man

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Aristotle

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The Nicomachean Ethics

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Philosophical literature

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Greek

Time

350 BC 350s BC 4th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Aristotle. Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia [Nicomachean Ethics]. c. 322 BC.

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Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics, translated by Terence Irwin. Hackett Publishing, 2019, bk. 2.

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Whosoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

The Iliad

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Obedience to God

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Homer

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The Iliad

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Poem

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Epic poem

Language

Greek

Time

700 BC 700s BC 8th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Homer. Ἰλιάς [The Iliad], edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles. Florence: Bernardus Nerlius and Demetrius Damilas, 1489, bk. 1, l. 218.

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Homer. The Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Oxford University Press, 2014, bk. 1, l. 218.

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