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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

John Ruskin

Sesame and Lilies

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Bad books Books

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John Ruskin

Source

Sesame and Lilies

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English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

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Ruskin, John. "Of Kings Treasures." Sesame and Lilies. 1864, Manchester, UK.

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Ruskin, John. Sesame and Lilies. The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 18, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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Power of philosophy Philosophy

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François de La Rochefoucauld

Source

Reflections

Medium

Epigram

Language

French

Time

1678 1670s 17th century

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Never believe governments, not any of them, not a word they say; keep an untrusting eye on all they do.

Martha Gellhorn

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Lying and politics Government

Author

Martha Gellhorn

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The Daily Telegraph

Medium

Obituary Newspaper

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1998 1990s 20th century

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Gellhorn, Martha. "Obituary." Daily Telegraph, 17 Feb. 1998.

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Trembled to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own innocent self, will still dream horrid dreams, and mutter unmentionable thoughts.

Herman Melville

Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

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Divided self Duality of man Inner turmoil

Author

Herman Melville

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Pierre; or, The Ambiguities

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1852 1850s 19th century

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Melville, Herman. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1852, bk. 4, ch. 2.

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Melville, Herman. Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, edited by Robert S. Levine and Cindy Weinstein. W. W. Norton & Company, 2017, bk. 4, ch. 2.

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If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Joshua Reynolds

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Self-improvement Personal development

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Joshua Reynolds

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Discourses on Art

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Lecture

Language

English

Time

1769 1760s 18th century

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Reynolds, Joshua. "Discourse II." 11 Dec. 1769, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, UK. Lecture.

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Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

Wendell Berry

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Environmental destruction Nature

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Wendell Berry

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English

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

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Berry, Wendell. Quoted in The Dying of the Trees, written by Charles E. Little. Viking Press, 1995, endorsement, back cover.

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Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold, and which may be increased or diminished in quantity, has its natural and its market price. The natural price of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers, one with another, to subsist and perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.

David Ricardo

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Workers Free market Supply and demand Capitalism

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David Ricardo

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On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

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Economic literature

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English

Time

1817 1810s 19th century

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Ricardo, David. On Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. London: John Murray, 1817.

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Ricardo, David. The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. Dover Publications, 2004.

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The erotic or the sexual is the root of "art"; its first impulse.

Claes Oldenburg

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Sex Art

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Claes Oldenburg

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English

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20th century

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Oldenburg, Claes and Germano Celant. Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology. Guggenheim Museum Publications, 1995, p. 13.

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Politics grease the wheels of business.

R.H. Tawney

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Political corruption Business Politics

Author

R.H. Tawney

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Business and Politics under James 1

Genre

Biography

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

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Tawney, R. H. Business and Politics under James I. Cambridge University Press, 1958.

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The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

Max Weber

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Absurdity of life Religion

Author

Max Weber

Source

Politics as a Vocation

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Lecture

Language

German

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

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Weber, Max. "Politiks wie Beruf [Politics As a Vocation]." 1917, Munich University, Munich, Germany. Lecture.

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There's a helluva distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Dorothy Parker

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Jokes

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Dorothy Parker

Source

Paris Review

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Parker, Dorothy. "The Art of Fiction." The Paris Review, Summer 1956, Issue 13, p. 80.

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A writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.

John Steinbeck

Quoted in Paris Review

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Power of words Meaning of words Words

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John Steinbeck

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Art of Fiction interview Paris Review

Medium

Interview Magazine

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1954 1950s 20th century

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Steinbeck, John. "John Steinbeck, The Art of Fiction No. 45." Interviewed by Nathaniel Benchley. The Paris Review, Fall 1969. Originally was published in "In Awe of Words." Exonian, 3 Mar. 1954.

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Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

John Ruskin

Unto This Last

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Schools and prisons Value of education

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John Ruskin

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Unto This Last

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Essay

Language

English

Time

1860 1860s 19th century

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Ruskin, John. "Unto this Last." Cornhill Magazine, Aug. - Dec. 1860.

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Ruskin, John. "Unto This Last." The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 17, Cambridge University Press, 2010, no. 2.

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The world stood like a playing card on edge... One looked at the buildings one passed and wondered if one was to see them again.

Norman Mailer

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Cuban Missile Crisis Cold War Nuclear weapons

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Reflecting on the week of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Author

Norman Mailer

Source

The Presidential Papers

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Mailer, Norman. "The Big Bite." The Presidential Papers. G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1963. Originally published in Esquire, Apr. 1963.

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My country is not a country, it is winter.

Gilles Vigneault

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Mon Pays

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Canada

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Gilles Vigneault

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Mon Pays

Medium

Song

Language

French

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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"Mon Pays [My Country]." La Neige a Fondu sur la Manicouagan [The Snow Has Melted on the Manicouagan]. Directed by Arthur Lamothe, composed by Gilles Vigneault, National Film Board of Canada, 1965.

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Under the wide and starry sky,
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I laid me down with a will.
This be the verse you grave for me:
Here he lies where he longed to be;
Home is the sailor, home from sea,
And the hunter home from the hill.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Requiem

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Robert Louis Stevenson

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Requiem

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Epitaph

Language

English

Time

1887 1880s 19th century

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Stevenson, Robert Louis. "Requiem." Underwoods. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons/London: Chatto & Windus, 1887, I. 1.

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The science of Pure Mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.

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Mathematics

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Alfred North Whitehead

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Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought

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Speech

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

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Whitehead, Alfred North. "Mathematics as an Element in the History of Thought." Lecture before the Mathematical Society. 1925, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.

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A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.

A.A. Milne

The Record Lie

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A.A. Milne

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The Record Lie

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

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Milne, A. A. "The Record Lie." If I May. Methuen, 1920.

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The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.

David Lloyd George

Quoted in Observer

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Decline of civilization The world Decline

Speaker

David Lloyd George

Source

Observer

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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George, David Lloyd. The Observer. 8 Jan. 1933.

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Surely there must have been God's intent in the making of this new-world Republic. Ours is an organic law which had but one ambiguity, and we saw that effaced in a baptism of sacrifice and blood, with union maintained, the Nation supreme, and its concord inspiring.

Warren G. Harding

Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding

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God and America

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Warren G. Harding

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Inaugural Address of Warren G. Harding Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

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Harding, William G. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1921, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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