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Matthew Henry

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Willful ignorance Ignorance Blindness

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Matthew Henry

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Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1706 1700s 18th century

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Henry, Matthew. Matthew Henry's Commentary. c. 1706, Jeremiah 20.

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Henry, Matthew. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible. Thomas Nelson, 2003, Jeremiah 20.

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An honest God is the noblest work of man.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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God and man Nature of God Existence of God God

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Robert G. Ingersoll

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English

Time

1874 1870s 19th century

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Ingersoll, Robert Green. "The Gods." c. 1872. Lecture.

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It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us—the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.

Hannah Arendt

On the trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the organizers of the Holocaust.

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Nature of evil Evil The Holocaust

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Hannah Arendt

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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil The New Yorker

Medium

Essay Magazine

Genre

Political literature Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Arendt, Hanna. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Viking Press, 1963. Originally published by The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 1963.

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It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.

Thomas Paine

The American Crisis

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American Revolution

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Thomas Paine

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The American Crisis

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1777 1770s 18th century

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Paine, Thomas. The American Crisis: Number 4. Philadelphia: Styner and Cist, 1777.

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Paine, Thomas. "The American Crisis, Number IV, September 12, 1777." Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution. Library of America, 2015.

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This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.

Vine Deloria, Jr.

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US and Native American relations America

Speaker

Vine Deloria, Jr.

Source

The New York Times Magazine

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

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Deloria, Vine, Jr. "This Country Was a Lot Better Off When the Indians Were Running It." The New York Times, 8 Mar. 1970.

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It is my land, my home, my father's land, to which I now ask to be allowed to return. I want to spend my last days there, and be buried among those mountains. If this could be I might die in peace, feeling that my people, placed in their native homes, would increase in numbers, rather than diminish as at present, and that our name would not become extinct.

Geronimo

On Arizona.

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Home Native American life

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Geronimo

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Speech

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English

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

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Geronimo. Speech from Fort Sill. 1877, Fort Sill, OK, USA.

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Geronimo. Quoted in Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place, written by Angie Debo. University of Oklahoma Press, 1976.

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My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 6:20

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Parents and children

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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 6:20).

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Evil is unspectacular and always human,
And shares our bed and eats at our table.

W.H. Auden

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Nature of evil Evil

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W.H. Auden

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Herman Melville

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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Auden, W. H. "Herman Melville." Another Time. Faber and Faber/Random House, 1940.

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If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!

Henry David Thoreau

Life Without Principle

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Man and nature

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Henry David Thoreau

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Life Without Principle The Atlantic

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Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Life Without Principle." The Atlantic, Oct. 1863.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "Life Without Principle." Walden and Other Writings. Modern Library, 2000.

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The months and days are the travelers of eternity. The years that come and go are also voyagers... I too for years past have been stirred by the sight of a solitary cloud drifting with the wind to ceaseless thoughts of roaming.

Matsuo Basho

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Wanderlust Eternity

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Matsuo Basho

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The Narrow Road to the Deep North

Genre

Travel writing

Language

Japanese

Time

1694 1690s 17th century

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Basho, Matsuo. おくのほそ道 [The Narrow Road to the Deep North]. Tokyo, 1702.

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Basho, Matsuo. "The Narrow Road to the Deep North." The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches, translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa. Penguin Classics, 1967.

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My position as regards the moneyed interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily, and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand, for property belongs to man and not man to property.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Property rights

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Political speech

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English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "Citizenship in a Republic." 23 Apr. 1910, Sorbonne University, Paris, France.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "Citizenship in a Republic." Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.: Letters and Speeches, edited by Louis Auchincloss. Library of America, 2004.

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I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.

John Stuart Mill

Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy

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Goodness of God Nature of God God

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John Stuart Mill

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Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy

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Essay

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Philosophical writing

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English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

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Mill, John Stuart. Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy. London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1865, ch. 7.

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Mill, John Stuart. An Examination of Sir. William Hamilton's Philosophy. Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, edited by John M. Robson. Vol. 9, Routledge, 2009, ch. 7.

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Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?

Christopher Marlowe

Hero and Leander

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Love at first sight Love

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Christopher Marlowe

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Hero and Leander

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1593 1590s 16th century

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Marlowe, Christopher and George Chapman. Hero and Leander. London: Paul Linley, 1598.

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Marlow, Christopher and George Chapman. "Hero and Leander." The Complete Poems and Translations. Penguin Classics, 2007.

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There are no warlike peoples-just warlike leaders.

Ralph J. Bunche

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War

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Ralph J. Bunche

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English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

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Bunche, Ralph J. Address to United Nations. c. 1971, New York City, NY, USA.

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Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

William Shakespeare

Julius Caesar

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Betrayal Loyalty Patriotism Rome

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Brutus

Author

William Shakespeare

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Julius Caesar

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play) Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1599 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. Julius Caesar. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, 1599, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Julius Caesar." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 3, sc. 2.

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I like to be in America!
Ok by me in America!
Everything free in America
For a small fee in America!

Stephen Sondheim

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America

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Anita

Author

Stephen Sondheim

Source

America West Side Story

Medium

Song Musical

Genre

Great American songbook

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Sondheim, Stephen. "America." West Side Story. Composed by Leonard Bernstein. 26 Sept. 1957, Winter Garden Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.

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There ain't any answer, there ain't going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.

Gertrude Stein

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Meaning of life

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Gertrude Stein

Source

Brewsie and Willie

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English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Stein, Gertrude. Brewsie and Willie. Random House, 1946, ch. 5.

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Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

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Thirteenth Amendment Civil Rights Amendments Bill of Rights

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Constitution of the United States

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Legal writing

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English

Time

1865 1860s 19th century

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The Constitution of the United States. Amend. 13, sect. 1.

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Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.

Norman Maclean

A River Runs Through It

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Interconnectedness of all things Rivers

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Norman Maclean

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A River Runs Through It

Medium

Novella

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Maclean, Norman. "A River Runs Through it." A River Runs Through It and Other Stories. University of Chicago Press, 1976.

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If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a State has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.

Thurgood Marshall

Stanley v. Georgia

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First Amendment Constitutional law

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Thurgood Marshall

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Stanley v. Georgia

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Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Marshall, Thurgood. United States, Supreme Court. Stanley v. Georgia. United States Reports, vol. 394, 7 Apr. 1969, pp. 557-572. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/394/557/.

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