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Great God! this is an awful place.

Robert Falcon Scott

On the South Pole.

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Topic

Antarctica

Author

Robert Falcon Scott

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1912 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Scott, Robert Falcon. Diary entry. 17 Jan. 1912.

Current Citation

Scott, Robert Falcon. "Wednesday, January 17 [1912]." Scott's Last Expedition. Oxford University Press, 2005.

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a calmness of spirit, and a world of other blessings attending upon it.

Izaak Walton

The Compleat Angler

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Topic

Fishing

Author

Izaak Walton

Source

The Compleat Angler

Medium

Treatise

Language

English

Time

1653 1650s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1653, pt. 1, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, edited by Marjorie Swann. Oxford University Press, 2014, pt. 1, ch. 1.

To put it in one word: I believe that Judaism knows nothing of revealed religion, in the sense in which this is understood by Christians. The Israelites possess divine legislation.

Moses Mendelssohn

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Topic

Christianity and Judaism Judaism

Author

Moses Mendelssohn

Language

German

Time

1783 1780s 18th century

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Original Citation

Mendelssohn, Moses. Jerusalem oder über religiöse Macht und Judentum [Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism]. Berlin: Friedrich Maurer, 1783.

Current Citation

Mendelssohn, Moses. Jerusalem: Or on Religious Power and Judaism, translated by Allan Arkush. Brandeis University Press, 1983.

A hint-don't paint too much direct from nature. Art is an abstraction! Study nature then brood on it and treasure the creation which will result, which is the only way to ascend towards God-to create like our Divine Master.

Paul Gauguin

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Topic

Nature of art Art

Author

Paul Gauguin

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Advice

Language

French

Time

1888 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Gauguin, Paul. Letter to Emile Schuffenecker. 14 Aug. 1888.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

David Hockney

Quoted in The Guardian

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Topic

Nature of art Art

Speaker

David Hockney

Source

The Guardian

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1988 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Hockney, David. The Guardian. 26 Oct. 1988.

Slovenliness is no part of religion; that neither this, nor any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of apparel. Certainly this a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is, indeed, next to godliness."

John Wesley

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Topic

Clothes make the man Clothing

Speaker

John Wesley

Medium

Sermon Speech

Language

English

Time

1788 1780s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Wesley, John. "On Dress." c. 1788. Sermon.

Current Citation

Wesley, John. "On Dress." The Works of the John Wesley, edited by Albert C. Outler. Vol. 3, Abingdon Press, 1986.

As for rioting, the old Roman way of dealing with that is always the right one; flog the rank and file, and fling the ringleaders from the Tarpeian rock.

Thomas Arnold

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Topic

Riots Law and order

Speaker

Thomas Arnold

Source

Culture and Anarchy

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1869 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Arnold, Matthew. Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1869. Originally published in Cornhill Magazine, 1868.

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.

Douglas Adams

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Topic

Man and animals Civilization Dolphins

Author

Douglas Adams

Source

Fit the Third The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Medium

Novel

Genre

Science fiction

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Adams, Douglas. "Fit the Third." The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Primary Phase. BBC Radio 4, London, England, UK, 22 Mar. 1978.

Current Citation

Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Pan Books, 1979, ch. 23.

If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense.

Bertrand Russell

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Topic

Evidence

Author

Bertrand Russell

Source

Is There a God? The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Russell, Bertrand. "Is There a God?" The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, edited by John G. Slater and Peter Köllner. Vol. 11, Routledge, 1997. Originally commissioned by Illustrated magazine, 1952. Unpublished.

The word "freedom" means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word "order." Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.

Prince Metternich

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Topic

Ordered liberty Freedom Order Law and order

Author

Prince Metternich

Language

German

Time

1859 1850s 19th century

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Citation

Metternich, Klemens von. Mein Politisches Testament [My Political Testament]. c. 1880.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of trouble and depressing subject matter. An art which might be for every mental worker, be he businessman or writer, like an appeasing influence, like a mental soother, something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

Henri Matisse

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Topic

Nature of art Art

Speaker

Henri Matisse

Source

Notes d'un Peintre

Medium

Interview

Language

French

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Liberman, Alexander. The Artist in His Studio. The Viking Press, 1960.

In looking at objects of Nature while I am thinking, as at yonder moon dim-glimmering through the dewy window-pane, I seem rather to be seeking, as it were asking for, a symbolical language for something within me that already and for ever exists, than observing anything new.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Topic

The ineffable The moon Nature

Author

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Source

Anima Poetae

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1805 1800s 19th century

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Original Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. Notebook entry. 14 Apr. 1805.

Current Citation

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge, edited by Lucy Newlyn. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

We are dealing with an exceptionally astute and dangerous man...one of the most unscrupulous rascals that Australia has ever evolved—and for a young country it has turned out some very finished types.

Sherlock Holmes

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

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Topic

Australia

Speaker

Sherlock Holmes

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Source

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

Medium

Short story Magazine

Genre

Detective fiction

Language

English

Time

1911 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax." London: The Strand Magazine/New York: The American Magazine, 1911.

Current Citation

Doyle, Arthur Conan. "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax." His Last Bow: Some Later Reminiscences. The Sherlock Holmes Collector's Library. Detective Fiction, 2012.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Topic

Intelligence Ideas

Author

Nicolas Chamfort

Source

Maximes et Pensées

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1796 1790s 18th century

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Citation

Chamfort, Nicolas. Maximes et Pensees. c. 1796, no. 29.

Whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

Sir Walter Raleigh

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Topic

International politics Political power

Author

Sir Walter Raleigh

Language

English

Time

1618 1610s 17th century

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Citation

Raleigh, Walter. "A Discourse of the Invention of Ships, Anchors, Compass, &c." The Works of Sir Walter Raleigh, Kt. Vol. 8, Oxford University Press, 1829.

Surely of all 'rights of man,' this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.

Thomas Carlyle

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Topic

Human rights Paternalism Politics

Author

Thomas Carlyle

Source

Chartism

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1840 1840s 19th century

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Original Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. Chartism. London: James Frases, 1840, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "Chartism." Thomas Carlyle: Selected Writings. Penguin Classics, 2015.

One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.

Horace Walpole

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Topic

Shakespeare

Author

Horace Walpole

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1764 1760s 18th century

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Original Citation

Walpole, Horace. Letter to Christopher Wren. 9 Aug. 1764.

Current Citation

Walpole, Horace. "Letter to Christopher Wren." Horace Walpole's Correspondence. Vol. 40, Yale University Press, 1980.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science.

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

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Topic

Epistemology Knowledge Numbers Mathematics

Speaker

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1883 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Thomson, William. "Electrical Units of Measurement." 3 May 1883, Institute of Civil Engineers, London, England, UK. Lecture.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

John Ruskin

Sesame and Lilies

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Topic

Bad books Books

Author

John Ruskin

Source

Sesame and Lilies

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Ruskin, John. "Of Kings Treasures." Sesame and Lilies. 1864, Manchester, UK.

Current Citation

Ruskin, John. Sesame and Lilies. The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 18, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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Topic

Power of philosophy Philosophy

Author

François de La Rochefoucauld

Source

Reflections

Medium

Epigram

Language

French

Time

1678 1670s 17th century

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Original Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

Current Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.