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We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty.

Benito Mussolini

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Fascism

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Benito Mussolini

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Italian

Time

1923 1920s 20th century

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Mussolini, Benito. "Forza e consenso [Strength and Consent]." Da Gerarchia. Mar. 1923.

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Casanova, Giacomo. History of My Life, vols. 1-2, translated by William Trask. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997, preface.

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The first step is the hardest.

Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond

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Getting started

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Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond

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French

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1763 1760s 18th century

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Madame du Deffand. Letter to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert. 7 July 1763.

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War is to man as motherhood is to woman.

Benito Mussolini

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War

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Benito Mussolini

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Italian

Time

1934 1930s 20th century

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Mussolini, Benito. Speech in Italy. 26 May 1934, Chamber of Deputies, Palazzo Montecitorio, Rome, Italy.

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You could get rid of all the crack, all the herb, all the blow, you know what would happen? People would just think of new ways of getting high. That's right, guys would go in their basement and become scientists, like "Yo check this out, check this out. You know, if you get a baby's bottle, right, fill it up with a little gasoline and a dead lima bean and suck it, you'll be fucked up!"

Chris Rock

Bring the Pain

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Drugs

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Chris Rock

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Bring the Pain

Medium

Comedy special

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Bring the Pain. HBO, 1 June 1996.

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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Albert Einstein

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The mysterious Awe Wonder Creativity

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Albert Einstein

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What I Believe. Living Philosophies 13 Forum and Century

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Essay Magazine

Language

German

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

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Einstein, Albert. "What I Believe. Living Philosophies 13." Forum and Century, Oct. 1930, vol. 84, issue 4, pp. 193-194.

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God is always with the strongest battalions.

Frederick the Great

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God's favor

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Frederick the Great

Medium

Letter

Language

French

Time

1760 1760s 18th century

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Frederick the Great. Letter to the Duchess Luise Dorothea von Gotha. 8 May 1760.

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To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us even in silence-this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

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Connection

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Therese

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1786 1780s 18th century

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre [Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship]. Berlin: Johann Friedrich Unger, 1785-1786, bk. 7, ch. 5.

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Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship." Goethe: The Collected Works, edited and translated by Eric A. Blackall. Vol. 9, Princeton University Press, 1995, bk. 7, ch. 5.

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And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Revelation 21:4

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New creation End times

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Revelation The Bible

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Scripture

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Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

96 90s 1st century

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Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Revelation 21:4).

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And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.

Genesis 3:13-14

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Adam and Eve Original sin Temptation Snakes The devil

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Genesis The Bible

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Scripture

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Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

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1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC

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Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Genesis 3:13-14).

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Pride is therefore pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Baruch Spinoza

Ethics

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Pride

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Baruch Spinoza

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Ethics

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Treatise

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Philosophical literature

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Definition

Language

Latin

Time

1677 1670s 17th century

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Spinoza, Baruch. Ethica, Ordine Geometrico Desmonstrata [Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order]. 1677, pt. 3, prop. 26, note.

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Spinoza, Benedict. Ethics, translated by Michael Silverthorne and Matthew J. Kinser. Cambridge University Press, 2018, pt. 3, prop. 26, note.

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I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me?

Beck

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Loser

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Losers

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Beck

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Loser

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Rock music

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Beck and Carl Stephenson. Loser. Performed by Beck. Mellow Gold. Bong Load Records, 1993.

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In our village, folk say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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Stars The moon The night sky

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Ivan Denisovich Shukhov

Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Source

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Medium

Novel

Genre

Political literature

Statement Type

Folk wisdom

Language

Russian

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr. "Один день Ивана Денисовича [One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich]." Novy Mir, Nov. 1962.

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The easy, gentle and sloping path…is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays

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Formation of character

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Michel de Montaigne

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Of Cruelty Essays

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Essay

Language

French

Time

1580 1580s 16th century

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De Montaigne, Michel. "De La Cruaute [Of Cruelty]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "On Cruelty." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Oscar Wilde

Intentions

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Telling the truth

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Gilbert

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Oscar Wilde

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The Critic as Artist Intentions

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Essay

Language

English

Time

1891 1890s 19th century

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist." Intentions. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1891, pt. 2.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist Part II." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Voltaire

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Approaching death

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Voltaire

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French

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1778 1770s 18th century

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Voltaire. Note to his secretary, Jean-Louis Wagniere. 28 Feb. 1778.

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Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

Jesus

Matthew 7:13-14

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Salvation Damnation Sermon on the Mount

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Jesus

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Gospel of Matthew The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Greek

Time

60 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (Matthew 7:13-14).

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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

Thomas More

Utopia

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Lawyers

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Thomas More

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Utopia

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Satire Political literature

Language

Latin

Time

1516 1510s 16th century

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More, Thomas. Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia. Leuven: Self-published, 1516, bk. 2.

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More, Thomas. Utopia, edited and translated by Paul Turner. Penguin Classics, 2003, bk. 2.

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The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

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Inevitability of death

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Thomas Gray

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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

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Poem

Language

English

Time

1751 1750s 18th century

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Gray, Thomas. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. London: Robert Dodsley, 1751.

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Gray, Thomas. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Elegy Written In Country Churchyard and Other Poems. Penguin Classics, 2009.

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We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter

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Prudence and circumspection

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The Scarlet Letter

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Novel

Language

English

Time

1850 1850s 19th century

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850, ch. 22.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, edited by Brian Harding. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 22.

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Inebriate of Air - am I -
And debauchee of dew -
Reeling - thro endless summer days -
From inns of Molten Blue.

Emily Dickinson

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Summer

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Emily Dickinson

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The May-Wine Springfield Daily Republican

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Poem Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1861 1860s 19th century

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Dickinson, Emily. "The May-Wine." Springfield Daily Republican, 4 May 1861, I. 5.

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Dickinson, Emily. "I taste a liquor never brewed." Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them, edited by Cristanne Miller. Belknap Press, 2016, I. 5.

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