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Women complain about sex more often than men. Their gripes fall into two major categories: (1) Not enough.(2) Too much.

Ann Landers

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Women

Author

Ann Landers

Language

English

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Landers, Ann. Ann Landers Says: Truth is Stranger. Prentice-Hall, 1968, ch. 2.

There'll be great Presidents again-and the Johnsons are wonderful, they've been wonderful to me-but there'll never be another Camelot again.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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American Presidency American politics

Author

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Source

Life Magazine

Medium

Magazine

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Kennedy-Onassis, Jacqueline. Life Magazine. 6 Dec. 1963.

We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through.

Woodrow Wilson

First Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson

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Downsides of progress Economic development American power

Speaker

Woodrow Wilson

Source

First Inaugural Address of Woodrow Wilson Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Wilson, Woodrow. "First Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1913, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.

Henry David Thoreau

Walking (Thoreau)

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Topic

Nature Wilderness Civilization Human nature

Speaker

Henry David Thoreau

Source

Walking (Thoreau)

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. "Walking." 23 Apr. 1851, Concord Lyceum, Concord, MA, USA. Lecture.

Current Citation

Thoreau, Henry David. "Walking." Civil Disobedience and Other Essays. Dover Publications, 1993.

We find ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit; reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but falling into raucous discord on earth. We are caught in war, wanting peace. We are torn by division, wanting unity. We see around us empty lives, wanting fulfillment. We see tasks that need doing, waiting for hands to do them.

Richard Nixon

First Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon

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American prosperity Political division

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Richard Nixon

Source

First Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Nixon, Richard. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1969, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Tom Wolfe

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Cults Religion

Author

Tom Wolfe

Source

In Our Time

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Wolfe, Tom. "Entr'actes and Canapes." In Our Time. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980.

Legitimate strife in business should not be superseded by an enforced concession to the demands of combinations that have the power to destroy, nor should the people to be served lose the benefit of cheapness which usually results from wholesome competition. These aggregations and combinations frequently constitute conspiracies against the interests of the people, and in all their phases they are unnatural and opposed to our American sense of fairness.

Grover Cleveland

Second Inaugural Address of Grover Cleveland

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Monopoly Business competition Corporate power

Speaker

Grover Cleveland

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Grover Cleveland Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Cleveland, Grover. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1893, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

William James

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Topic

Indecision Decisions and choices

Author

William James

Source

The Principles of Psychology

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

English

Time

1890 1890s 19th century

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Citation

James, William. The Principles of Psychology. Vol. 1, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890, ch. 4.

Think of our world as it looks from the rocket that is heading toward Mars. It is like a child's globe, hanging in space, the continents stuck to its side like colored maps. We are all fellow passengers on a dot of earth. And each of us, in the span of time, has really only a moment among our companions. How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over nature. There is world enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Absurdity of war The earth

Speaker

Lyndon B. Johnson

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Lyndon Baines Johnson

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

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Citation

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

The first half of this century has been marked by unprecedented and brutal attacks on the rights of man, and by the two most frightful wars in history. The supreme need of our time is for men to learn to live together in peace and harmony.

Harry Truman

Second Inaugural Address of Harry Truman

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20th century Authoritarianism International politics

Speaker

Harry Truman

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Harry Truman Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Truman, Harry S. "Second Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1949, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.

O. Henry

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Topic

Swindles and scams

Author

O. Henry

Source

The Octopus Marooned The Gentle Grafter

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

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Citation

O. Henry. "The Octopus Marooned." The Gentle Grafter. The McClure Company, 1908.

Time passes. Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

Joan Didion

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Memory

Author

Joan Didion

Source

Blue Nights

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Didion, Joan. Blue Nights. Alfred A. Knopf, 2011, ch. 2.

These unhappy times call for the building of plans that... Build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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New Deal The common man American politics

Speaker

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. "The Forgotten Man Speech." 7 April 1932, Albany, NY, USA.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Safeguards of freedom Political theory

Speaker

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Medium

Radio broadcast

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1938 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. On the Recession. Fireside chat. 14 Apr. 1938, Diplomatic Reception Room, The White House, Washington, DC, USA.

We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men; that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

William Henry Harrison

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison

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Political equality Equality Natural law Political theory

Speaker

William Henry Harrison

Source

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1841 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Harrison, William Henry. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1841, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

But you know that when the truth is told, that you can get what you want, or you can just get old.

Billy Joel

Vienna

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Being assertive Aging

Speaker

Billy Joel

Source

Vienna

Medium

Song

Genre

Pop music

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Joel, Billy. "Vienna." The Stranger. Columbia Records, 1977.

This peace we seek cannot be born of fear alone: it must be rooted in the lives of nations. There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Second Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Peace Political theory

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Eisenhower, Dwight D. "Second Inaugural Address." 21 Jan. 1957, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive.

James Baldwin

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Broken heart Interconnectedness of all people The human condition Power of literature

Speaker

James Baldwin

Source

Life Magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Howard, Jane. "Doom and Glory of Knowing Who You Are." Life Magazine, 24 May 1963.

War is the remedy our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

William Tecumseh Sherman

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American Civil War

Author

William Tecumseh Sherman

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Sherman, William Tecumseh. Letter to James Guthrie. 14 Aug. 1864.

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Topic

Oppression of women Gender relations Men and women

Speaker

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Source

Declaration of Sentiments (Speech)

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. "Declaration of Sentiments." Women's Rights Convention. 19 July 1848, Wesleyan Chapel, Seneca Falls, NY, USA.