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In all the attributes of a great, happy, and flourishing people we stand without a parallel in the world.

Martin Van Buren

Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren

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Early America American prosperity American pride

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Martin Van Buren

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Inaugural Address of Martin van Buren Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Van Buren, Martin. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1837, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done.

Sherlock Holmes

A Study in Scarlet

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Appearance vs. reality Reputation

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Sherlock Holmes

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

A Study in Scarlet

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. "A Study in Scarlet." Beeton's Christmas Annual. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1887.

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Doyle, Arthur Conan. A Study in Scarlet. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012, pt. 2, ch. 7.

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My Country has in its Wisdom contrived for me, the most insignificant Office that ever the Invention of Man contrived or his Imagination conceived.

John Adams

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Vice Presidency American politics

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John Adams

Source

Letters of John Adams

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Letter

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English

Time

1793 1790s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

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Adams, John. Letter to Abigail Adams. 19 Dec. 1793.

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“John Adams to Abigail Adams, 19 December 1793,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/04-09-02-0278.

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Being blonde is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blonde has some incredible sort of sexual connotation.

Madonna

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Blondes Identity

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Madonna

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Rolling Stone

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Interview Magazine

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English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Madonna. "Madonna: The Rolling Stone Interview." Interviewed by Bill Zehme. Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 1989.

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If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn't love you as much as I do in a single day.

Wuthering Heights (1939 fim)

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Intensity of love Being in love Love

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Heathcliff

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Laurence Olivier

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Wuthering Heights (1939 fim)

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic drama (film) Romantic drama

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English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

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Wuthering Heights. Directed by William Wyler. Samuel Goldwyn Productions, 1939.

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All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had.

Acts 4:32

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Sharing

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Book of Acts The Bible

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Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

62 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Acts 4:32).

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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

George Bernard Shaw

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Unity of all religion Religion

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George Bernard Shaw

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Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant

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Play

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English

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

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Shaw, George Bernard. Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant. 1898, vol. 2, preface.

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Shaw, George Bernard. Plays Pleasant. Penguin, 2003, preface.

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There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

Toni Morrison

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Culture Reconciliation Civilization

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Toni Morrison

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No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear The Nation

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Essay Magazine

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English

Time

2015 2010s 21st century

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Morrison, Toni. "No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear." The Nation: 150th Anniversary Special, 23 Mar. 2015.

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The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.

Michel Foucault

Discipline and Punish

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Body and soul The soul

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Michel Foucault

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Discipline and Punish

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Historical literature Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

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Foucault, Michel. Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison [Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison]. Gallimard, 1975.

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Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best.

Woodrow Wilson

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Political neutrality

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Woodrow Wilson

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English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

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Wilson, Woodrow. Address to Congress Requesting a Declaration of War Against Germany. Congress meeting. 2 Apr. 1917, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Wilson, Woodrow. "Address to a Joint Session of Congress Calling for a Declaration of War." Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-President, edited by Mario R. DiNunzio. New York University Press, 2006.

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Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.

Warren Buffett

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Financial panics and bubbles Investing Greed Fear

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Warren Buffett

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Buy American. I am. The New York Times

Genre

Newspaper

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

2008 2000s 21st century

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Buffett, Warren. "Buy American. I Am." The New York Times, Oct 16, 2008.

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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Susan Sontag

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Susan Sontag

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Against Interpretation

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Essay

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English

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1966 1960s 20th century

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Sontag, Susan "Against Interpretation." Against Interpretation. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.

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A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Alexander Hamilton

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National debt

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Alexander Hamilton

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Letters of Alexander Hamilton

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Prophecies and predictions

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English

Time

1781 1780s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

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Hamilton, Alexander. Letter to Robert Morris. 30 Apr. 1781.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "From Alexander Hamilton toRobert Morris, [30 April 1781]." Founders Online, National Archives, founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-02-02-1167.

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I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

Émile Zola

The Ladies' Paradise

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Passion

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Octave Mouret

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Émile Zola

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The Ladies' Paradise

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Novel

Language

French

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

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Zola, Émile. "Au Bonheur de Dames [The Ladies' Paradise]." Gil Blas, 17 Dec. 1882 - 1 Mar. 1883.

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Zola, Émile. The Ladies' Paradise. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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I let the audience follow me, if it is interested.

Richard Wright

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Artist and audience

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Richard Wright

Source

L'Express

Medium

Interview

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English

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

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Wright, Richard. Interviewed by L'Express. 18 Oct. 1955.

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The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.

James Madison

Federalist 10

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Property rights Political theory Politics

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James Madison

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Federalist 10 The Federalist Papers

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Essay

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English

Time

1787 1780s 18th century

Era

American Revolutionary Period

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Madison, James [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 10: The Same Subject Continued: The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection." Daily Advertiser, 22 Nov. 1787.

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Madison, James. "No. 10: An extensive republic a remedy for mischiefs of faction.--Madison." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.

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In administering the laws of Congress I shall keep steadily in view the limitations as well as the extent of the Executive power, trusting thereby to discharge the functions of my office without transcending its authority.

Andrew Jackson

First Inaugural Address of Andrew Jackson

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Executive power American Presidency American politics

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Andrew Jackson

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First Inaugural Address of Andrew Jackson Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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English

Time

1833 1830s 19th century

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Jackson, Andrew. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1833, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Love ceases to be a Pleasure, when it ceases to be a Secret.

Aphra Behn

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Secret love Love

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Aphra Behn

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Four o'Clock General Conversation The Lover's Watch

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English

Time

1686 1680s 17th century

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Behn, Aphra. La Montre, or The Lover's Watch. London: W. Canning, 1686.

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Behn, Aphra. "La Montre, or The Lover's Watch." The Works of Aphra Behn: Seneca Unmask'd and Other Prose Translated. Vol. 4, Routledge, 2018.

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Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

Jonathan Swift

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Comets Space

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Jonathan Swift

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Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting

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Essay

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Satire

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English

Time

1727 1720s 18th century

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Swift, Jonathan. "Thoughts on Various Subjects." Miscellanies. London: John Morphew, 1727.

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Swift, Jonathan. "Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711)." Jonathan Swift: The Essential Writings, edited by Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins. W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.

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Generosity truly is the best investment.

Diane von Furstenberg

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Generosity

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Diane von Furstenberg

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Good Moring America

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Interview TV program

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Paradox

Language

English

Time

2015 2010s 21st century

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Von Furstenberg, Diane. "Diane von Furstenberg Talks 6th Annual DVF Awards." Good Morning America, 9 Mar. 2015.

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