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And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

Genesis 3:7-8

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Nakedness Shame Loss of innocence Clothing Original sin

Source

Genesis The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Genesis 3:7-8).

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In life, as in a foot-ball game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard!

Theodore Roosevelt

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Going for it

Author

Theodore Roosevelt

Language

English

Time

1900 1900s 20th century

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The American Boy." St. Nicholas Magazine, May 1900.

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I compare it to something behind a curtain, about which there is a great deal of bustle and fuss, and a wonderful air of seeming solemnity; but when by an accident, the curtain happens to be opened, and the company see what it is, they burst into laughter.

Thomas Paine

Rights of Man

On monarchy.

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Monarchy

Author

Thomas Paine

Source

Rights of Man

Genre

Philosophical literature Political literature

Language

English

Time

1792 1790s 18th century

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Paine, Thomas. Rights of man. Part the second. London: J. S. Jordan, 1792.

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Paine, Thomas. "Rights of Man Part the second." Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings, edited by Mark Philp. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Love to faults is always blind,
Always is to joy inclin'd,
Lawless, wing'd, and unconfin'd,
And breaks all chains from every mind.

William Blake

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Power of love Being in love Love

Author

William Blake

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1792 1790s 18th century

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Blake, William. Poem written in his notebook. c. 1792.

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Blake, William. "Love to faults is always blind." William Blake: Selected Poems, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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My body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

James Joyce

Araby

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Being in love

Author

James Joyce

Source

Araby Dubliners

Medium

Short story

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1914 1910s 20th century

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Joyce, James. “Araby.” Dubliners. Grant Richards Ltd., 1914.

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Joyce, James. “Araby.” Dubliners, edited by Terence Brown. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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And though hard be the task,
"Keep a stiff upper lip."

Phoebe Cary

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Perseverance Persistence

Author

Phoebe Cary

Source

Keep a Stiff Upper Lip

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1870 1870s 19th century

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Cary, Phoebe. Keep a Stiff Upper Lip. c. 1870.

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Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o' lang syne?

Robert Burns

Auld Lang Syne

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Remembering the past

Author

Robert Burns

Source

Auld Lang Syne

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

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Burns, Robert. Quoted in "Auld Lang Syne." Scots Musical Museum. Written by James Johnson. 1796, st. 1.

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Burns, Robert. "Auld Lang Syne." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited by Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994.

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The great masses of the people...more easily fall a victim to a big lie than to a little one.

Adolf Hitler

Mein Kampf

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Disinformation Politics and lies Politics The masses

Author

Adolf Hitler

Source

Mein Kampf

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

German

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

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Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf [My Struggle]. Vol. 1, Franz Eher Nachfolger GmbH, 1925, ch. 6.

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Press not a falling man too far!

William Shakespeare

Henry VIII

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Pushing one's limits

Speaker

Lord Chamberlain

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Henry VIII

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play)

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1613 1610s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William and John Fletcher. Henry VIII. King's Men, 1613, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Henry the Eighth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblattet al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

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I fell into a burnin' ring of fire
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher.

Johnny Cash

Ring of Fire

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Falling in love Dangers of love

Speaker

Johnny Cash

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Ring of Fire

Medium

Song

Genre

Country music

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Cash, June Carter and Merle Kilgore. "Ring of Fire." Performed by Johnny Cash. Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash. Columbia Nashville, 1963.

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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Donald Trump

The Art of the Deal

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Business Art and business Nature of art

Author

Donald Trump

Source

The Art of the Deal

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Trump, Donald and Tony Schwartz. Trump: The Art of the Deal. Random House, 1987, ch. 1.

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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The American Scholar

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Trusting oneself Believing in oneself

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

The American Scholar

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar." Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College. 31 Aug. 1837, First Parish in Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "The American Scholar (1837)." The Portable Emerson, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Penguin Classics, 2014.

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Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Alfred Tennyson

Poems

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Openness to change Change

Author

Alfred Tennyson

Source

Locksley Hall Poems

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1842 1840s 19th century

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Tennyson, Alfred. "Locksley Hall." Poems. Vol. 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1842, I. 182.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "Locksley Hall." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, I. 182.

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Hear that lonesome whippoorwill?
He sounds too blue to fly.
The midnight train is whinin' low,
I'm so lonesome I could cry.

Hank Williams

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

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Loneliness Bird songs Birds

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Hank Williams

Source

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

Medium

Song

Genre

Country music

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Williams, Hank. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. MGM Records, 1949.

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Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be; in this direction their unbounded imagination grows and dilates beyond all measure.... Democracy, which shuts the past against the poet, opens the future before him.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America

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Democracy

Author

Alexis de Tocqueville

Source

Democracy in America

Genre

Political literature

Language

French

Time

1840 1840s 19th century

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. De La Democratie en Amerique [Democracy in America]. Vol. 2, London: Saunders and Otley, 1840, sect. 1, ch. 17.

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Tocqueville, Alexis De. Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II, translated by Henry Reeve. Bantam Classics, 2000, vol. 2, sect. 1, ch. 17.

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A fool uttereth all his mind.

Proverbs 29:11

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Talking too much

Source

Proverbs The Bible

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Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

686 BC 680s BC 7th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Proverbs 29:11).

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In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher

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Women in politics Politics

Speaker

Margaret Thatcher

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

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Thatcher, Margaret. Speech to members of the National Union of Townswomen’s Guilds. 20 May 1965, Royal Albert Hall, London, England, UK.

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How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

Sherlock Holmes

The Sign of the Four

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Process of elimination Logic Truth

Speaker

Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

The Sign of the Four

Medium

Novel Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1890 1890s 19th century

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Doyle, Arthur. "The Sign of the Four; or, The Problem of the Sholtos." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. London: Lippincott's, 1890, ch. 1.

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Doyle, Arthur. The Sign of Four. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2009, ch. 1.

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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show to my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiples evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Civil disobedience Fighting injustice

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Courtroom speech Speech

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Gandhi, Mahatma. Statement made at his trial. The Great Trial of 1922. 23 Mar. 1922, Ahmadabad, India.

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Gandhi, Mahatma. The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings, edited by Tridip Suhrud. Penguin Classics, 2019, pt. 1, ch. 9.

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Aye, toil we how we may, we all sleep at last on the field. Sleep? Aye, and rust amid greenness; as last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swaths.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

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Inevitability of death

Author

Herman Melville

Source

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. London: Richard Bentley/New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851, ch. 132.

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Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick or, The Whale. Penguin Classics, 2002, ch. 132.

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