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Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

Wendell Phillips

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Seeds of revolution Revolution

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Wendell Phillips

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1852 1850s 19th century

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Citation

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

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Martin Mulll

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Music

Speaker

Martin Mulll

Language

English

Time

1979 1970s 20th century

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Mull, Martin. Quoted in Detroit Free Press. 18 Feb. 1979.

How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.

Jonathan Franzen

The Corrections

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Negativity Missed opportunities

Author

Jonathan Franzen

Source

The Corrections

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Franzen, Jonathan. The Corrections. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much.

Bessie Anderson Stanley

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Nature of success Success

Author

Bessie Anderson Stanley

Source

Success

Language

English

Time

1905 1900s 20th century

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Stanley, Bessie A. "Success." Brown Book Magazine, c. 1905.

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The history of failure in war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.

Douglas MacArthur

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Military strategy War

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Douglas MacArthur

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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Citation

MacArthur, Douglas. Statement on aid to Great Britain. 16 Sept. 1940.

No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist.

J. Paul Getty

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Thinking for oneself Conformity Taking risks Business

Author

J. Paul Getty

Source

How to Be Rich

Language

English

Time

1965 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Getty, Jean Paul. How to Be Rich. Playboy Press, 1965.

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Stewart Brand

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Technological progress Technology Change Progress

Author

Stewart Brand

Source

The Media Lab

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Brand, Stewart. The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M. I. T. Viking, 1987, pt. 1, ch. 1.

But sport doesn’t build character....sports reveals character.

Heywood Hale Broun

Quoted in The Evening Press

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Sports

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Heywood Hale Broun

Source

The Evening Press

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1974 1970s 20th century

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Broun, Heywood. Spoken during a speech in Ames, Iowa. Jan. 1974, Ames, IA, USA.

The Great Society created by steam and electricity may be a society, but it is no community.

John Dewey

The Public and its Problems

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Technological progress

Author

John Dewey

Source

The Public and its Problems

Genre

Political literature Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Dewey, John. The Public and Its Problems. H. Holt and Company, 1927, ch. 3.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Power

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Law and the Court." Dinner of the Harvard Law Association of New York. 15 Feb. 1913, New York, NY, USA.

Current Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Law and the Court." The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, edited by Richard A. Posner. University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Well since my baby left me
Well I found a new place to dwell
Well it's down at the end of lonely street
At Heartbreak Hotel.

Elvis Presley

Heartbreak Hotel

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Broken heart

Speaker

Elvis Presley

Source

Heartbreak Hotel

Medium

Song

Genre

Rock music

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Presley, Elvis. Heartbreak Hotel. Written with Tommy Durden and Elvis Presley. RCA Records, 1956.

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but there may never be two that love one another equally well.

Thornton Wilder

The Bridge on San Luis Rey

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Inequality in love Love

Author

Thornton Wilder

Source

The Bridge on San Luis Rey

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Albert & Charles Boni, 1927.

Current Citation

Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Vintage, 2023.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Spiro Agnew

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Anti-Americanism American elite Elites

Speaker

Spiro Agnew

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Agnew, Spiro. Speech in New Orleans. Citizen's Testimonial Dinner. 19 Oct. 1969, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which enjoys the most freedom must necessarily be in proportion to its numbers the most powerful nation.

John Quincy Adams

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Demography Political theory

Author

John Quincy Adams

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1822 1820s 19th century

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Citation

Adams, John Quincy. Letter to James Lloyd. 1 Oct. 1822.

In nature there are few sharp lines.

A.R. Ammons

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Nature

Author

A.R. Ammons

Source

Corsons Inlet

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Ammons, Archie Randolph. "Corsons Inlet." Corsons Inlet: A Book of Poems. W. W. Norton & Company, 1975. Originally published as "A Nature Walk." The Hudson Review, June 1963.

A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.

Stephen Jay Gould

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Persecution Science

Author

Stephen Jay Gould

Source

Ever Since Darwin

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Gould, Stephen Jay. "Velikovsky In Collision." Natural History, Mar. 1975.

Let us have done with British-Americans and Irish-Americans and German-Americans, and so on, and all be Americans... If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

Henry Cabot Lodge

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Assimilation America

Speaker

Henry Cabot Lodge

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1888 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Lodge, Henry Cabot. "The Day We Celebrate." New England Society of Brooklyn meeting. 21 Dec. 1888, Brooklyn, New York City, NY, USA.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

John Dickinson

The Liberty Song

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American unity

Author

John Dickinson

Source

The Liberty Song

Medium

Song

Language

English

Time

1768 1760s 18th century

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Dickinson, John. "The Liberty Song." Pennsylvania Journal/Pennsylvania Gazette, 7 July 1768.

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. They are inconvenient. They cost us something. But are we not made better for the effort and sacrifice, and are not those we serve lifted up and blessed?

William McKinley

Second Inaugural Address of William McKinley

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Progress Overcoming obstacles

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William McKinley

Source

Second Inaugural Address of William McKinley Presidential inaugural address

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Speech

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Political speech

Language

English

Time

1901 1900s 20th century

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McKinley, William. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1901, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong along with the fearful, the true mixed in with the facade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.

Fred Rogers

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Accepting others Self-acceptance Acceptance Love Yin and yang

Author

Fred Rogers

Source

The World According to Mister Rogers

Language

English

Time

2003 2000s 21st century

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 95.