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The highest result of education is tolerance.

Helen Keller

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Effects of education Education

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Helen Keller

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Optimism

Medium

Essay

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English

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

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Keller, Helen. Optimism. T. Y. Crowell and Company, 1903, pt. 2.

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Keller, Helen. "Optimism." The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays. Dover Publications, 2010, pt. 2.

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Neither natural ability without instruction, nor instruction without natural ability, can make the perfect artist.

Vitruvius

De Architectura

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Artistic development Artists

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Vitruvius

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De Architectura

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Latin

Time

70 BC 70s BC 1st century BC

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Classical antiquity

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Vitruvius Pollio. De Architectura Libri Decem [Ten Books of Architecture]. Rome: Fra Giovanni Sulpitius, c. 1486, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Vitruvius Pollio. Ten Books on Architecture, edited by Ingrid D. Rowland and Thomas Noble Howe. Cambridge University Press, 2001, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Tell her that when you found me, I was here I was with the only brothers I had left and there's no way I was gonna desert them.

Saving Private Ryan

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War

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Private Ryan

Actor

Matt Damon

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Saving Private Ryan

Medium

Film

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Epic (film) War (film) Epic War

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Saving Private Ryan. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Amblin Entertainment, DreamWorks Pictures/Mutual Film Company, 1998.

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Benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and knowledge are not infused into us from without.

Mencius

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People are basically good Human nature

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Mencius

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Philosophical literature

Language

Chinese

Time

300 BC 300s BC 4th century BC

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Mencius. Mengzi. c. 300 BC, bk. 6.

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Mencius. Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics, 2005, bk. 6.

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Old age is the harbor of all ills.

Bion of Borysthenes

Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius

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Old age

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Bion of Borysthenes

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Diogenes Laërtius

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The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

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Historical literature

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Greek

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400 400s 3rd century

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Bion. Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius. c. 240 AD, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 47.

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Bion. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 4, ch. 7, sect. 47.

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Be cheerful while you are alive.

Ptahhotep

The Maxims of Ptahhotep

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Positive attitude

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Ptahhotep

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The Maxims of Ptahhotep

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Wisdom literature

Statement Type

Advice

Language

Egyptian/Hieroglypics

Time

2375 BC 2370s BC 24th century BC

Era

Egyptian Middle Kingdom

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Ptahhotep. The Maxims of Ptahhotep. c. 2375, maxim 34.

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It is difficult suddenly to lay aside a long-cherished love.

Catullus

Carmina

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Lost love Broken heart Love

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Catullus

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Carmina

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Poem

Language

Latin

Time

54 BC 50s BC 1st century BC

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Classical antiquity

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Catullus, Gaius Valerius. Carmina. c. 1481, no. 76, l. 13.

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Cattulus, Gaius Valerius. The Poems of Catullus, translated by Guy Lee. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 76, l. 13.

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Men should be bewailed at their birth and not at their death.

Montesquieu

Persian Letters

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Tragic view of life Birth and death The human condition

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Montesquieu

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Persian Letters

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Novel

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Epistolary novel

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French

Time

1721 1720s 18th century

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Montesquieu. Uzbek to Ibben. 20th of the moon of Rhegeb, 1713.

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

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How to live

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Immanuel Kant

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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

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Philosophical literature

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Advice

Language

German

Time

1785 1780s 18th century

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Kant, Immanuel. Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten [Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals]. Riga: J. F. Hartknoch, 1785.

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Kant, Immanuel. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, translated by Mary Gregor and Jes Timmermann. Cambridge University Press, 2012.

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Painting and sculpture, hard work and fair dealing have been my ruin and things go continually from bad to worse. It would have been better had I been put to making matches in my youth than to be in such a fret!

Michelangelo

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Art and money

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Michelangelo

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Letters of Michelangelo

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Letter

Language

Italian

Time

1542 1540s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Michelangelo. Letter to Luigi del Riccio. Oct./Nov. 1542.

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Sometimes I miss you so much I can hardly stand it.

Brokeback Mountain

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Missing someone

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Jack Twist

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Jake Gyllenhaal

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Brokeback Mountain

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Film

Genre

Romantic drama (film) Romantic drama

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English

Time

2005 2000s 21st century

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Brokeback Mountain. Directed by Ang Lee, River Road Entertainment, 2005.

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With the right footwear one can rule the world.

Bette Midler

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Girl power

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Bette Midler

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Trenton Evening Times

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Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Midler, Bette. "Ask Them Yourself: Question for Bette Midler." Trenton Evening Times, Section: Family Weekly (Newspaper Supplement), 13 Jan. 1980.

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I don't wait to be struck by lightning and don't need certain slants of light in order to write.

Toni Morrison

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Inspiration Creative process Writing

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Toni Morrison

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The New Republic

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Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1981 1980s 20th century

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Morrison, Toni. "The Language Must Not Sweat." Interviewed by Thomas LeClair. The New Republic, 21 Mar. 1981.

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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.

Vincent Van Gogh

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Poetry

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Vincent Van Gogh

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Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

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Letter

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Dutch

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1883 1880s 19th century

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Van Gogh, Vincent. Letter to Theo van Gogh. 18 Mar. 1883.

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Van Gogh, Vincent. Dear Theo: The Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh, edited by Irving Stone and Jean Stone. Plume, 1995.

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An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Punctuation Writing

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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English

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20th century

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Quoted in Beloved Infidel: The Education of a Woman, written by Sheilah Graham and Gerold Frank. Henry Holt, 1958, ch. 18.

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One universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Marcus Aurelius

Meditations

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Monism Interconnectedness of all things

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Marcus Aurelius

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Meditations

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Personal journal

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Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

180 180s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. c. 180, bk. 7.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations, edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, bk. 7.

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You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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Peace Freedom

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Malcolm X

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English

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1965 1960s 20th century

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Malcolm X. "Prospects for Freedom in 1965." Militant Labor Forum. 7 Jan. 1965, Palm Gardens, New York City, NY, USA.

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Malcolm X. "Prospects for Freedom in 1965." Malcolm X Speaks, edited by George Breitman. Grove Press, 1994.

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All men have in themselves that which is truly honorable. Only they do not think of it.

Mencius

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People are basically good Ignorance

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Mencius

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Philosophical literature

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Chinese

Time

300 BC 300s BC 4th century BC

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Mencius. Mengzi. c. 300 BC, bk. 6.

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Mencius. Mencius, translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics, 2005, bk. 6.

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It is the most violent people who go for love and peace.

John Lennon

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Peace movement Human nature

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John Lennon

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Playboy Magazine

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Interview Magazine

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Paradox

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English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Lennon, John. "Playboy Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono." Interviewed by David Sheff. Playboy, Jan. 1981.

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Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere, one is intimate with him by instinct.

Jane Austen

Mansfield Park

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Shakespeare

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Henry Crawford

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Jane Austen

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Mansfield Park

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Novel

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English

Time

1814 1810s 19th century

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Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Vol. 3, London: Thomas Egerton, 1814, ch. 34.

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Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 34.

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