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The nice guys are all over there, in seventh place.

Leo Durocher

Remark about the New York Giants baseball team, then in second-to-last place in the League.

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Topic

Competition Nice guys finish last

Speaker

Leo Durocher

Source

The New York Journal-American

Medium

Interview Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Durocher, Leo. Quoted in New York Journal-American. 7 July 1946. Originally a remark about the New York Giants baseball team, 6 July 1946.

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

Erich Fromm

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Topic

Nature of love Love

Author

Erich Fromm

Source

The Art of Loving

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Fromm, Erich. The Art of Loving. Harper & Brothers, 1956, ch. 2.

It would be simplistic to say that Divine Providence caused the fall of communism. It fell by itself as a consequence of its own mistakes and abuses. It fell by itself because of its own inherent weakness

Pope John Paul II

Upon being asked if the fall of the USSR could be ascribed to God.

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Topic

Fall of communism Communism Religion and politics

Speaker

Pope John Paul II

Source

His Holiness: John Paul II and the History of Our Time

Medium

Interview

Language

Italian

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Pope John Paul II. Quoted in His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time, written by Carl Bernstein and Marco Politi. Doubleday, 1996.

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean.

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Topic

Ocean and sea The earth

Speaker

Arthur C. Clarke

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Clarke, Arthur C. Quoted in "Hands Up for the Gaia Hypothesis." Written by James E. Lovelock. Nature Journal, 8 Mar. 1990.

I think all business practices would improve immeasurably if they were guided by "feminine" principles-qualities like love and care and intuition.

Anita Roddick

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Topic

Women in business Business management

Author

Anita Roddick

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Roddick, Anita. Body and Soul: Profits with Principles, the Amazing Success Story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop. Crown, 1991, ch. 1.

Bring me the sunflower, crazed with the love of light.

Eugenio Montale

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Topic

Sunflowers Flowers

Author

Eugenio Montale

Medium

Poem

Language

Italian

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Montale, Eugenio. "Portami il girasole [Bring me the sunflower]." Ossi di seppia [Cuttlefish Bones]. c. 1925.

Current Citation

Montale, Eugenio. "Bring me the sunflower." Montale: Poems, translated by Jonathan Galassi. Everyman's Library, 2020.

The whole effect of Christianity was to transfer the drama onto the moral plane.

Andre Gide

The Counterfeiters

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Topic

Christianity

Author

Andre Gide

Source

The Counterfeiters

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Gide, Andre. Les Faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters]. Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1925, pt. 1, ch. 13.

Current Citation

Gide, Andre. The Counterfeiters, translated by Dorothy Bussy. Penguin Books, 1990, pt. 1, ch. 13.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

Nick Cave

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Topic

Failure Success

Speaker

Nick Cave

Source

Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1983 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Cave, Nick. Quoted in Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave, written by Ian Johnstone. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

To be heir to the throne is not a position; it is a predicament.

Alan Bennett

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Topic

The Royal Family Monarchy

Speaker

Prince of Wales

Author

Alan Bennett

Source

The Madness of George III

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Bennett, Alan. The Madness of George III. 28 Nov. 1991, Lyttelton Theatre of the National Theatre, London, England, UK, pt. 2.

I obey Nature, and never do I dare give orders to it. My only ambition is servile fidelity to it.

Auguste Rodin

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Topic

Artistic process Art

Speaker

Auguste Rodin

Source

La Revenue

Medium

Interview

Language

French

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Rodin, Auguste. Interviewed by Paul Gsell. La Revenue, 1910.

Current Citation

Rodin, Auguste. Quoted in Art: Conversations with Paul Gsell, written by Paul Gsell. University of California Press, 1984.

The symphony must be like the world; it must embrace everything.

Gustav Mahler

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Topic

Symphony Music

Speaker

Gustav Mahler

Source

Letters of Gustav Mahler

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Mahler, Gustav. Quoted in Jean Sibelius: His Life and Personality, written by Karl Ekman. Alan Wilmer, 1936.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.

James Weldon Johnson

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Topic

American music

Author

James Weldon Johnson

Source

Black Manhattan

Language

English

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Johnson, James Weldon. Black Manhattan. Alfred A. Knopf, 1930, ch. 11.

It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Quoted in Life Magazine

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Topic

Photography

Speaker

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Source

Life Magazine

Medium

Obituary Magazine

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Eisenstaedt, Alfred. "Obituary." Life Magazine, 24 Aug. 1995.

When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something that lasts longer than we do.

Hermann Hesse

Narcissus and Goldmund

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Topic

Purpose of art Art

Author

Hermann Hesse

Source

Narcissus and Goldmund

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

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Original Citation

Hesse, Herman. Narziß und Goldmund [Narcissus and Goldmund]. Fischer Verlag, 1930.

Current Citation

Hesse, Herman. Narcissus and Goldmund, translated by Ursule Molinaro. Bantam, 1984.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Aldous Huxley

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Topic

Technological progress Progress

Author

Aldous Huxley

Source

Ends and Means

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1937 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Huxley, Aldous. Ends and Means (an Enquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization). Chatto & Windus, 1937, ch. 1.

He could see the island of Manhattan off to the left. The towers were jammed together so tightly, he could feel the mass and stupendous weight. Just think of the millions, from all over the globe, who yearned to be on that island, in those towers, in those narrow streets! There it was, the Rome, the Paris, the London of the twentieth century, the city of ambition, the dense magnetic rock, the irresistible destination of all those who insist on being where things are happening-and he was among the victors!

Tom Wolfe

The Bonfire of the Vanities

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Topic

New York City Cities

Author

Tom Wolfe

Source

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Wolfe, Tom. The Bonfire of the Vanities. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987.

Small is beautiful.

E.F. Schumacher

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Topic

Simplicity

Author

E.F. Schumacher

Source

The Radical Humanist

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Schumacher, E. F. "Small is Beautiful." The Radical Humanist, Aug. 1973, vol. 37, no. 5.

We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.

William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience

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Topic

Power of thought Beliefs

Author

William James

Source

The Varieties of Religious Experience

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

James, William. "The Reality of the Unseen." Gifford Lecture. c. 1902, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. Lecture.

Current Citation

James, William. "The Reality of the Unseen." The Varieties of Religious Experience, edited by Martin E. Marty. Penguin Classics, 1982.

Superficial observers seem to find no destiny for our abounding increase in population, in wealth and power except that of imperialism. They fail to see that the American people are engrossed in the building for themselves of a new economic system, a new social system, a new political system all of which are characterized by aspirations of freedom of opportunity and thereby are the negation of imperialism.

Herbert Hoover

Inaugural Address of Herbert Hoover

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Topic

American imperialism American experiment America and the world

Speaker

Herbert Hoover

Source

Inaugural Address of Herbert Hoover Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Hoover, Herbert. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1929, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

William J. Brennan, Jr

New York Times Company v. Sullivan

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Topic

Freedom of speech and expression First Amendment Bill of Rights Constitutional law

Author

William J. Brennan, Jr

Source

New York Times Company v. Sullivan

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Brennan, William J., Jr. United States, Supreme Court. New York Times Company v. Sullivan. United States Reports, vol. 376, 9 Mar. 1964, pp. 254-305. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/376/254/.