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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

T.H. Huxley

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Taking action

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T.H. Huxley

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English

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

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Huxley, Thomas Henry. "Technical Education." Working Men's Club and Institute Union meeting. 1 Dec. 1877, London, England, UK.

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Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
Will not stay still.

T.S. Eliot

Burnt Norton

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Meaning of words Words Limits of language

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T.S. Eliot

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Burnt Norton Four Quartets

Medium

Poem

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English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

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Eliot, T. S. “Burnt Norton.” Collected Poems 1909–1935. Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1936, pt. 5.

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The public seldom forgive twice.

Johann Kasper Lavater

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Public opinion Second chances

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Johann Kasper Lavater

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German

Time

1773 1770s 18th century

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Lavater, Johann Caspar. Aphorisms of Man. London: J. Johnson, 1788, no. 606.

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Lavater, Johann Caspar. "Annotations to Lavater's Aphorisms on Man." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David Erdman. University of California Press, 2008.

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Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

Daniel Kahneman

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

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Perspective

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Daniel Kahneman

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

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Psychological literature

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English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011, ch. 38.

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Familiarity breeds contempt.

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

A Comment on Ruth: And Notes Upon Jonah

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Familiarity breeds contempt

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Thomas Fuller (churchman)

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A Comment on Ruth: And Notes Upon Jonah

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Religious literature

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English

Time

1654 1650s 17th century

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Fuller, Thomas. A Comment on Ruth: And Notes Upon Jonah. London: G. and H. Eversden, 1654, ch. 2.

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We do not seek for truth in the abstract... Every man sees what he looks for, and hears what he listens for, and nothing else.

George Bernard Shaw

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Confirmation bias Cognitive biases Seeking the truth

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George Bernard Shaw

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Letters of George Bernard Shaw

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Letter

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English

Time

1891 1890s 19th century

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Shaw, George Bernard. Letter to E. C. Chapman. 29 July 1891.

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You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

Albert Camus

The Fall

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Charm Persuasion

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Albert Camus

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The Fall

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Novel

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Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Definition

Language

French

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Camus, Albert. La Chute [The Fall]. Editions Gallimard, 1956.

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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

Thornton Wilder

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Conflict in marriage Marriage

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Mrs. Molloy

Author

Thornton Wilder

Source

The Matchmaker

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Play

Genre

Comedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1954 1950s 20th century

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Wilder, Thornton. The Matchmaker. 4 Nov. 1954, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, act 2.

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Wilder, Thornton. "The Matchmaker." Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2020, act 2.

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God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM".

Exodus 3:14

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Nature of God God

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Exodus The Bible

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Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Boast

Language

Hebrew

Time

1405 BC 1400s BC 15th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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The Holy Bible, New International Version. International Bible Society, 1978. (Exodus 3:14).

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The nature of bad news infects the teller.

William Shakespeare

Antony and Cleopatra

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Bearer of bad news Bad news

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Messenger

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William Shakespeare

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Antony and Cleopatra

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Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1607 1600s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. Antony and Cleopatra. King's Men, c. 1607, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "Antony and Cleopatra." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 2.

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Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Mystery of death Death

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Rainer Maria Rilke

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Letter

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German

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Witold von Hulewicz. 13 Nov. 1925.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910-1926, translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

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Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange hostile world and us, a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires.

Pablo Picasso

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Painting Art

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Pablo Picasso

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1964 1960s 20th century

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Picasso, Pablo. Quoted in Life with Picasso, written by Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake. McGraw-Hill, 1964, pt. 6.

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A dragon lives forever,
But not so, little boys
Painted wings and giants' rings
Make way for other toys.

Peter, Paul and Mary

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Puff, The Magic Dragon

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Loss of innocence Growing up

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Peter, Paul and Mary

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Puff, The Magic Dragon

Medium

Song

Genre

Folk music Pop music

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Yarrow, Peter and Leonard Lipton. "Puff, The Magic Dragon." Performed by Peter, Paul and Mary. Moving. Warner Records, 1963.

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All good things must come to an end.

Henry M. Field

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Endings

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Henry M. Field

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English

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1859 1850s 19th century

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Field, Henry M. Summer Pictures: From Copenhagen to Venice. Sheldon and Company, 1859, ch. 1.

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He takes false shadows for true substances.

William Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus

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Credulity Deception Appearance vs. reality

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Marcus Andronicus

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William Shakespeare

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Titus Andronicus

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1594 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. Titus Andronicus. Sussex's Men, 1594, The Rose, London, England, UK, act 3, sc. 2.

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

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Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true, than in that of the press. It has accordingly been decided by the practice of the States, that it is better to leave a few of its noxious branches to their luxuriant growth, than by pruning them away, to injure the vigor of those yielding the proper fruits.

James Madison

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Freedom of the press

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James Madison

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English

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1800 1800s 19th century

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Madison, James. Report of 1800. Philadelphia, Jan. 1800.

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Madison, James. "Report on the Alien and Sedition Acts, January 7, 1800." James Madison: Writings, edited by Jack Rakove. Library of America, 1999.

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There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself.

Charles Baudelaire

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Personal growth Nature of progress Progress

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Charles Baudelaire

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French

Time

1867 1860s 19th century

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Baudelaire, Charles. Mon Coeur mis a nu [My Naked Heart]. Paris, 1887, no. 15.

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Baudelaire, Charles. "My Heart Laid Bare." Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed, translated by Richard Sieburth. Yale University Press, 2022, no. 15.

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God made integers, all else is the work of man.

Leopold Kronecker

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Mathematics

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Leopold Kronecker

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Lecture

Language

German

Time

1886 1880s 19th century

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Kronecker, Leopold. Berliner Naturforscher-Versammlung im Jahre. 1886, Berlin, Germany. Lecture.

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What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind

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Decline of civilization

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Margaret Mitchell

Source

Gone with the Wind

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Novel

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English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

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Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Macmillan Publishers, 1936, pt. 2, ch. 9.

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Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. Scribner, 2007, pt. 2, ch. 9.

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For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that's sleeping in the unplowed ground. Is our world gone? We say farewell. Is a new world coming? We welcome it, and we will bend it to the hopes of man.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Second Inaugural Address of Lyndon Baines Johnson

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American frontier American character

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Lyndon B. Johnson

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Second Inaugural Address of Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

Genre

Political speech

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English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

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Johnson, Lyndon B. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1965, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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