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The priest persuades humble people to endure their hard lot; the politician urges them to rebel against it; and the scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.

Max Perutz

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Scientific progress Science Religion Politics

Author

Max Perutz

Source

Is Science Necessary?

Medium

Essay

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Perutz, Max. Is Science Necessary? Essays on Science and Scientists. E.P. Dutton, 1989.

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

Alexander Fleming

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The individual Originality Creativity

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Alexander Fleming

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Fleming, Alexander. Address at Edinburgh University. 1951, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

Bruno Bettelheim

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Punishment

Author

Bruno Bettelheim

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Bettelheim, Bruno. A Good Enough Parent: A Book on Child-Rearing. Alfred A. Knopf, 1987, ch. 9.

Here we will stand and fight; there will be no further withdrawal. I have ordered that all plans and instructions dealing with further withdrawal are to be burnt, and at once. We will stand and fight here. If we can't stay here alive, then let us stay here dead.

Bernard Montgomery

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Back against the wall Never surrender Surrender War

Speaker

Bernard Montgomery

Medium

Speech

Genre

Military speech

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Lord Montgomery of Alamein. Address to the Officers and Men of the Eighth Army. 13 Aug. 1942, Cairo, Egypt.

Science and technology, and the various forms of art, all unite humanity in a single and interconnected system. As science progresses, the worldwide cooperation of scientists and technologists becomes more and more of a special and distinct intellectual community of friendship, in which, in place of antagonism, there is growing up a mutually advantageous sharing of work, a coordination of efforts, a common language for exchange of information, and solidarity, which are in many cases independent of the social and political differences of individual states.

Zhores Medvedev

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Scientific progress Progress

Author

Zhores Medvedev

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

Russian

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Medvedev, Zhores. Международное сотрудничество ученых и национальные границы [The Medvedev Papers: Fruitful Meetings Between Scientists of the World, and, Secrecy of Correspondence is Guaranteed by Law]. Macmillan/St. Martin's Press, 1971, preface.

Our foreign policy must have an ethical dimension and must support the demands of other people for the democratic rights on which we insist for ourselves.

Robin Cook

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Morality in foreign policy Foreign policy International politics

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Robin Cook

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Cook, Robin. Mission statement. 12 May 1997, UK.

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest... The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

Alfred Adler

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Inferiority complex Human psychology Human nature

Author

Alfred Adler

Source

The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Adler, Alfred. The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler, edited by H. L. Ansbacher and R. R. Ansbacher. Harper Torchbooks, 1964.

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

Roland Barthes

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Cars Churches

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Roland Barthes

Source

La nouvelle Citroën

Medium

Essay

Language

French

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Barthes, Roland. "La nouvelle Citroën." Mythologies. Seuil, 1957.

We are a facing a mood and a movement far transcending the level of issues and policies and the governments that pursue them. This is no less than a clash of civilization-the perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular preseent, and the worldwide expansion of both.

Bernard Lewis

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Clash of civilizations Islam

Author

Bernard Lewis

Source

The Roots of Muslim Rage

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Lewis, Bernard. "The Roots of Muslim Rage." The Atlantic Monthly, Sept. 1990.

The Germans, if this Government is returned, are going to pay every penny; they are going to be squeezed as a lemon is squeezed-until the pips squeak.

Eric Geddes

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Germany World War I World War II

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Eric Geddes

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Geddes, Eric. Speech in Cambridge. 10 Dec. 1918, Cambridge, England, UK.

By the "Establishment," I do not mean only the centers of official power-though they are certainly part of it-but rather the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power is exercised.

Henry Fairlie

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The man Elites

Author

Henry Fairlie

Source

The Spectator

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Fairlie, Henry. "How The Spectator invented the Establishment." The Spectator, 23 Sept. 1955.

The Common Law of England has been laboriously built about a mythical figure-the figure of "The Reasonable Man.".... He is an ideal, a standard, the embodiment of all those qualities which we demand of the good citizen.

A.P. Herbert

The Reasonable Man

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Legal theory Reasonableness Law

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A.P. Herbert

Source

The Reasonable Man

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1935 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Herbert, A. P. "The Reasonable Man." Uncommon Law. Methuen, 1935.

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

Homer

The Iliad

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Patience

Author

Homer

Source

The Iliad

Medium

Poem

Genre

Epic poem

Language

Greek

Time

700 BC 700s BC 8th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Homer. Ἰλιάς [The Iliad], edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles. Florence: Bernardus Nerlius and Demetrius Damilas, 1489, bk. 24, l. 49.

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Homer. The Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Oxford University Press, 2014, bk. 24, l. 49.

Men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

Aristotle

The Nicomachean Ethics

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Human nature Nature of man

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Aristotle

Source

The Nicomachean Ethics

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

Greek

Time

350 BC 350s BC 4th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Aristotle. Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia [Nicomachean Ethics]. c. 322 BC.

Current Citation

Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics, translated by Terence Irwin. Hackett Publishing, 2019, bk. 2.

Whosoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen.

Homer

The Iliad

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Obedience to God

Author

Homer

Source

The Iliad

Medium

Poem

Genre

Epic poem

Language

Greek

Time

700 BC 700s BC 8th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Homer. Ἰλιάς [The Iliad], edited by Demetrius Chalcondyles. Florence: Bernardus Nerlius and Demetrius Damilas, 1489, bk. 1, l. 218.

Current Citation

Homer. The Iliad, translated by Robert Fitzgerald. Oxford University Press, 2014, bk. 1, l. 218.

Have patience, heart. Once you endured worse than this.

Homer

The Odyssey

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Patience Perseverance

Author

Homer

Source

The Odyssey

Medium

Poem

Genre

Epic poem

Language

Greek

Time

700 BC 700s BC 8th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Homer. Ὀδύσσεια [Odyssey]. c. 710 BC, bk. 20, l. 18.

Current Citation

Homer. The Odyssey, edited by Bernard Knox, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2006, bk. 20, l. 18.

Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

Socrates

Quoted in Phaedo, by Plato

Last words

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Socrates

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Plato

Source

Phaedo

Medium

Philosophical dialogue Dialogue

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Last words Question

Language

Greek

Time

360 BC 360s BC 4th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Socrates. Quoted in Φαίδων [Phaedo], written by Plato. c. 360 BC.

Current Citation

Socrates. Quoted in "Phaedo." Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, written by Plato, translated by G. M. A. Grube and John M. Cooper. Hackett Publishing, 2002.

Therefore don't you be gentle to your wife either. Don't tell her everything you know, but tell her one thing and keep another thing hidden.

Homer

The Odyssey

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Trustworthiness of women Gender relations Marriage Secrets

Author

Homer

Source

The Odyssey

Medium

Poem

Genre

Epic poem

Language

Greek

Time

700 BC 700s BC 8th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Original Citation

Homer. Ὀδύσσεια [Odyssey]. c. 710 BC, bk. 11, l. 441-443.

Current Citation

Homer. The Odyssey, edited by Bernard Knox, translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 2006, bk. 11, l. 441-443.

Love is a thing as any spirit free.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales

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Nature of love Love

Author

Geoffrey Chaucer

Source

The Canterbury Tales

Language

Old English

Time

1400 1400s 14th century

Era

Middle Ages

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Original Citation

Chaucer, Geoffrey. "The Franklin's Tale." The Canterbury Tales. London: William Caxton, c. 1476.

Current Citation

Chaucer, Geoffrey. "The Franklin's Tale." The Canterbury Tales, edited and translated by Nevill Coghill. Penguin Classics, 2003.

Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.

J.K. Rowling

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Author

J.K. Rowling

Source

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Opening lines

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Bloomsbury/Scholastic, 1999, ch. 1.