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It was none the less a perfectly ordinary horse, such as convergent evolution has produced in many of the places that life is to be found. They have always understood a great deal more than they let on. It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them.

Douglas Adams

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

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Horses Animals Man and animals

Author

Douglas Adams

Source

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Medium

Novel

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Adams, Douglas. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. William Heinemann Ltd./Pocket Books, 1987, ch. 2.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which they have delivered to our care: we owe it to our posterity, not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

Junius

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Debt to the past Preservation of freedom

Author

Junius

Medium

Open letter Letter

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1769 1760s 18th century

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Citation

Junius. Letter to the Printer of the Public Advertiser. 8 Aug. 1769.

Long experience has taught me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.

Anthony Eden

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Criticism from others Criticism

Speaker

Anthony Eden

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Eden, Anthony. Speech at Lord Mayor's guildhall banquet. Lord Mayor's Guildhall Banquet. c. 1956, London, England, UK.

When we, the Workers, all demand: "What are we fighting for?"…
Then, then we'll end that stupid crime, that Devil's madness-War.

Robert W. Service

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End of war War

Author

Robert W. Service

Source

Michael

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

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Service, Robert W. "Michael." Ballads of a Bohemian. Barse & Hopkins/T. Fisher Unwin, 1921, I. 31.

The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God.

Paul Tillich

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Topic

Nature of God God

Speaker

Paul Tillich

Source

The Shaking of the Foundations

Medium

Sermon

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

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Tillich, Paul. "The Depth of Existence." Sunday services sermon. c. 1965, Union Theological Seminary Chapel, New York, NY, USA.

Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is "Who am I going to be today?"

Fay Weldon

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Clothing Identity

Author

Fay Weldon

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

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Weldon, Fay. Quoted in The New Yorker. 26 June 1995.

Ah, this, that we call happiness, how intimate a part of the soul it is, and of what little importance are the outside elements which seem to go to its making!

Andre Gide

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Happiness

Author

Andre Gide

Source

Strait is the Gate

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Gide, Andre. La Porte Etroite [Strait is the Gate]. Mercure de France, 1909, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Gide, Andre. Strait is the Gate. Penguin Books, 2001, ch. 5.

Relationships should be based on value and fact, on how you get on, on what things you enjoy together. I think romance has caused more unhappiness almost than anything.

Diana Athill

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Romance Relationships Love Unhappiness

Speaker

Diana Athill

Source

Write, Never Marry, and Other Love Advice from Simone de Beauvoir's Editor Lenny's Letter

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2017 2010s 21st century

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Athill, Diana. "Write, Never Marry, and Other Love Advice from Simone de Beauvoir's Editor." Written by Anya Raza. Lenny Letter, 21 Apr. 2017.

The arousing from sleep, after a recent misfortune, is a bitter moment; the mind at first habitually recurs to its previous tranquility, but is soon depressed by the thought of the contrast that awaits it.

Alessandro Manzoni

The Betrothed

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Topic

Hard times Waking up Sleep

Author

Alessandro Manzoni

Source

The Betrothed

Medium

Novel

Language

Italian

Time

1842 1840s 19th century

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Original Citation

Manzoni, Alessandro. I promessi sposi [The Betrothed]. Brusselle: Meline, Cans e Compagnia, 1842, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Manzoni, Alessandro. The Betrothed, translated by Michael F. Moore. Modern Library, 2022, ch. 2.

It is as wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his name.

Tony Benn

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Marxism Ideological excess Ideology

Speaker

Tony Benn

Source

The Benn Heresy

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Benn, Tony. Quoted in The Benn Heresy by Alan Freeman. Pluto Press, 1982. Originally stated during a TV interview, c. 1982.

Shall I wasting in despair
Die because a woman's fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with care
'Cause another's rosy are?
Be she fairer than the day,
Or the flow'ry meads in May,
If she be not so to me,
What care I how fair she be?

George Wither

Fair Virtue

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Topic

Women's attractiveness

Author

George Wither

Source

Fair Virtue

Language

English

Time

1622 1620s 17th century

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Citation

Gent, George Wither. Fair Virtue, The Mistress of Phil'arete. London: John Grismand, 1622, sonnet 4, st. 1.

Unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone.

William Shakespeare

Henry VI, Part 1

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Topic

Guests and visitors

Speaker

Bedford

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Henry VI, Part 1

Medium

Play

Genre

History (play)

Language

English

Time

1592 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Henry VI, Part 1. Lord Strange's Men, 1592, Rose Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 3.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "The First Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

Limitations are really good for you. They are a stimulant. If you were told to make a drawing of a tulip using five lines, or using a hundred, you'd have to be more inventive with the five.

David Hockney

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Topic

Artistic constraints Limitations and constraints Creativity Art

Speaker

David Hockney

Source

A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney

Medium

Interview

Language

English

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Hockney, David. A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney. Thames & Hudson, 2011.

We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake... The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

Victor Cousin

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Topic

Purpose of art Art

Speaker

Victor Cousin

Source

On the True, the Beautiful and the Good

Medium

Lecture

Language

French

Time

1818 1810s 19th century

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Citation

Cousin, Victor. "Du Vrai, du beau, et du bien." Cours de philosophie. École Normale Supérieure, 1818, Paris, France.

The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made;
Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become
As they draw near to their eternal home.
Leaving the old; both worlds at once they view,
That stand upon the threshold of the new.

Edmund Waller

On the Divine Poems

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Topic

Personal growth Effects of time Acquiring wisdom

Author

Edmund Waller

Source

On the Divine Poems

Language

English

Time

1686 1680s 17th century

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Waller, Edmund. "On the Foregoing Divine Poems." Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham. Edinburgh: James Nichol, 1857.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may-light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

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Perspective Ugliness Beauty

Speaker

John Constable

Source

Memoirs of the Life of John Constable

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

19th century

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Constable, John. Quoted in Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, written and edited by C.R. Leslie. London: James Carpenter, 1843, ch. 17.

Current Citation

Constable, John. Quoted in Constable: Memoirs of the Life (Arts & Letters), written and edited by C.R. Leslie. Phaidon, 1995.

How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing.

Neville Chamberlain

On German's annexation of the Sudetenland.

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World War II

Speaker

Neville Chamberlain

Medium

Radio broadcast

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

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Chamberlain, Neville. Radio broadcast referring to the Czechoslovakia crisis. 27 Sept. 1938, 10 Downing Street, London, England, UK.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.

Carl Jung

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Reason and emotion Reason Emotions

Author

Carl Jung

Source

Psychological Types

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Jung, Carl. Psychologische Typen [Psychological Types]. Rascher Verlag, 1921.

Current Citation

Jung, Carl. Psychological Types, edited by R. F. C. Hull, translated by H. G. Baynes. Princeton University Press, 1976.

The right sort of love is recognized by the sort of joy, of general excitement, of exultant life which the presence of someone produces in us and which distinguishes them. You feel better when with them.

Paul Valéry

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Being in love Love

Author

Paul Valéry

Source

Journals of Paul Valéry

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

20th century

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Valéry, Paul. Notebook entry. c. 1945.

Deceive not thyself by overexpecting happiness in the married estate... Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs.

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

The Holy State and the Profane State

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Topic

Marriage

Author

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

Source

The Holy State and the Profane State

Medium

Essay

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1642 1640s 17th century

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Citation

Fuller, Thomas. The Holy State and the Profane State. Cambridge: John Williams, 1642, bk. 3, ch. 22.