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In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art which belonged to all who could behold it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Conduct of Life

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Topic

Nature of art Art

Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

Wealth The Conduct of Life

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1860 1860s 19th century

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Original Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Wealth." The Conduct of Life. Boston: Ticknor & Fields/London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1860.

Current Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “Wealth.” The Conduct of Life, edited by Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, and Douglas Emory Wilson. Vol. 6, Belknap Press, 2004.

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

On the Ford Model T.

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Topic

Consumer choice Cars

Author

Henry Ford

Source

My Life and Work

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Ford, Henry and Samuel Crowther. My Life and Work. Doubleday, 1922, ch. 4.

Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead trouble makers.

Mignon McLaughlin

The Neurotic's Notebook

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Topic

Conformity Rebellion

Author

Mignon McLaughlin

Source

The Neurotic's Notebook

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

McLaughlin, Mignon. The Neurotic's Notebook. ‎The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1963, ch. 7.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Wendell Phillips

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Topic

Printing press Technological progress Progress

Speaker

Wendell Phillips

Source

Public Opinion on The Abolition Question

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1864 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Phillips, Wendell. Speech in Boston. Massachusetts Antislavery Society meeting. 28 Jan. 1852, The Melodeon, Boston, MA, USA.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart!
What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The House of Seven Gables

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Topic

Existential solitude Inner life Self-criticism

Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Source

The House of Seven Gables

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1851 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851, ch. 11.

Current Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables, edited by Robert S. Levine. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020, ch. 11.

We work in the dark—we do what we can—we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Henry James

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Topic

Creation Creativity Art

Speaker

Dencombe

Author

Henry James

Source

The Middle Years Scribner's Magazine

Medium

Short story Magazine

Language

English

Time

1893 1890s 19th century

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Original Citation

James, Henry. "The Middle Years." Scribner's Magazine. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893.

Current Citation

James, Henry. "The Middle Years." Henry James: Complete Stories 1892-1898. Vol. 4. Library of America, 1996.

Through story, every culture defines itself and teaches its children how to be people and members of their people.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Stories Culture

Author

Ursula K. Le Guin

Source

The Operating Instructions

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

2002 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Le Guin, Ursula K. "The Operating Instructions." Oregon Literary Arts meeting. 2002, Portland, Oregon, USA. Speech.

Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits…It is nothing jointed; it flows. A "river" or a "stream" are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life.

William James

The Principles of Psychology

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Topic

Consciousness

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. 9.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

B.F. Skinner

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Topic

Artificial intelligence Man and machine

Author

B.F. Skinner

Source

Contingencies of Reinforcement

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Skinner, B. F. Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis. Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969, ch. 9.

We must be careful of what we think we are, because we may become that.

James Q. Wilson

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Topic

Perception

Author

James Q. Wilson

Source

The Moral Sense

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Wilson, James Q. The Moral Sense. Simon & Schuster, 1993.

In your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride—the temptation of blithely declaring yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire.

Ronald Reagan

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Topic

Soviet Union

Speaker

Ronald Reagan

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1983 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Reagan, Ronald. "Evil Empire." Annual convention of National Association of Evangelicals. 8 Mar. 1983, Orlando, FL, USA.

By a plan known only to Providence, the stolen sons and daughters of Africa helped to awaken the conscience of America. The very people traded into slavery helped set America free. My nation's journey toward justice has not been easy, and it is not over. The racial bigotry fed by slavery did not end with slavery or with segregation. And many of the issues that still trouble America have roots in the bitter experience of other times. But however long the journey, our destination is set: liberty and justice for all.

George W. Bush

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Topic

Civil rights American politics

Speaker

George W. Bush

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Bush, George W. Remarks at Goree Island, Senegal. 8 July 2003, Île de Gorée, Dakar, Senegal.

They may walk with a little less spring in their step, and their ranks are growing thinner, but let us never forget, when they were young, these men saved the world.

Bill Clinton

Remarks at the U.S. National Cemetery, June 6, 1944

On veterans of the D-Day invasion of World War II.

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Topic

D-Day Invasion World War II

Speaker

Bill Clinton

Source

Remarks at the U.S. National Cemetery, June 6, 1944

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Clinton, Bill. Remarks at the US National Cemetery. 6 June 1994, Colleville-sur-Mer, France.

If God is male, then the male is God.

Mary Daly

Beyond God the Father

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Topic

Patriarchy Nature of God Oppression of women

Author

Mary Daly

Source

Beyond God the Father

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Daly, Mary. Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation. Beacon Press, 1973, ch. 1.

But the wheel what squeaks the loudest
Is the one what gets the grease.

Josh Billings

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Topic

Complaining

Author

Josh Billings

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1870 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Stewart, Cal. Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories. Punkin Centre Company, 1903, epigraph to Uncle Josh Weathersby.

In every political society, parties are unavoidable. A difference of interests, real or supposed is the most natural and fruitful source of them...the great art of politicians lies in making them checks and balances to each other.

James Madison

Parties

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Topic

Political parties Checks and balances Political theory

Author

James Madison

Source

Parties The National Gazette

Medium

Essay Newspaper

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1792 1790s 18th century

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Madison, James "Parties." The National Gazette. 23 Jan. 1792.

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Madison, James. "Political Essays: Charters and Parties; January 19 and 23, 1792." Selected Writings of James Madison, edited by Ralph Ketcham. Hackett Publishing Company, 2006.

The law, in all vicissitudes of government, fluctuations of the passions, or flights of enthusiasm, will preserve a steady undeviating course; it will not bend to the uncertain wishes, imaginations, and wanton tempers of men... On the one hand it is inexorable to the cries and lamentations of the prisoners; on the other it is deaf, deaf as an adder to the clamours of the populace.

John Adams

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Topic

Rule of law

Speaker

John Adams

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Language

English

Time

1770 1770s 18th century

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Citation

Adams, John. Spoken at the argument in defense of the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials. Boston Massacre Trials. 4 Dec. 1770, Queen Street courtroom, Boston, MA, USA.

We have seen their kind before. They're the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism, Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way to where it ends in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.

George W. Bush

Address to Joint Session of Congress, September 20, 2001

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Topic

Islamic extremism

Speaker

George W. Bush

Source

Address to Joint Session of Congress, September 20, 2001

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Bush, George W. Address to joint session of Congress. Joint session of Congress. 20 Sept. 2001, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

Edward R. Murrow

On Joseph McCarthy.

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Topic

McCarthyism Red Scare Cold War Communism American politics

Speaker

Edward R. Murrow

Source

See It Now

Medium

TV program

Language

English

Time

1954 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Murrow, Edward R. Private comments to staff prior to broadcast of See It Now. 9 Mar. 1954, New York City, NY, USA.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal veneration throughout our land.

Washington Irving

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Topic

American capitalism America

Author

Washington Irving

Source

The Creole Village

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1836 1830s 19th century

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Citation

Irving, Washington. "The Creole Village." Knickerbocker Magazine, 12 Nov. 1836.