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Luck, if you will, is something you work for, and the harder you work the more luck you have.

Esther Eberstadt Brooke

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Luck Hard work

Author

Esther Eberstadt Brooke

Language

English

Time

1940 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Brooke, Esther Eberstadt. Career Clinic: The Answer to Your Job Problem. Farrar & Rinehart, 1940, pt. 3, ch. 2.

Do not worry about failure. Failure is a badge of honor. It means you risked failure.

Charlie Kaufman

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Failure Courage Taking risks

Speaker

Charlie Kaufman

Medium

Speech

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Kaufman, Charlie. "Screenwriters' Lecture: Charlie Kaufman." Screenwriters' Lecture Series. 30 Sept. 2011, British Film Institute, London, England, UK.

There is no easy walk-over to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow again and again before we reach the mountain-tops of our desire.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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Fighting for freedom

Author

Jawaharlal Nehru

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Nehru, Jawaharlal. "From Lucknow to Tripuri." The Unity of India: Collected Writings, 1937-1940. Lindsay Drummond, 1941.

We are now brought face to face with a tyranny which holds out the threat of becoming, thanks to "the conquest of nature" and in particular of human nature, what no earlier tyranny ever became: perpetual and universal.

Leo Strauss

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Soviet Union Cold War Totalitarianism

Author

Leo Strauss

Source

On Tyranny

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Strauss, Leo. On Tyranny: An Interpretation of Xenophon's Hiero. The Free Press, 1948.

The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The Common Law

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Nature of law Legal theory Law

Speaker

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Source

The Common Law

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Lecture 1: Early Forms of Liability." Lowell Lectures. 23 Nov. 1880, Lowell Institute, Lowell, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. The Common Law. Belknap Press, 2009, lecture 1.

These be
Three silent things:
The falling snow... The hour
Before the dawn... The mouth of one
Just dead.

Adelaide Crapsey

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Silence

Author

Adelaide Crapsey

Source

Triad

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Crapsey, Adelaide. "Triad." Verse. Manas Press, 1915.

Current Citation

Crapsey, Adelaide. "Triad." Complete Poems and Collected Letters of Adelaide Crapsey, edited by Susan S. Smith. State University of New York Press, 2016.

The sea lies all about us. The commerce of all lands must cross it. The very winds that move over the lands have been cradled on its broad expanse and seek ever to return to it. The continents themselves dissolve and pass to the sea, in grain after grain of eroded land. So the rains that rose from it return again in rivers. In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at least return to the sea—to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the everflowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

Rachel Carson

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Ocean and sea

Author

Rachel Carson

Source

The Sea Around Us

Genre

Nature writing Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Carson, Rachel. The Sea Around Us. Oxford University Press, 1951, pt. 3.

Either this man was, and is, the son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But don't let us come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He hasn't left that open to us. He didn't intend to.

C.S. Lewis

On Jesus.

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Jesus

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C.S. Lewis

Medium

Radio broadcast

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

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Original Citation

Lewis, C. S. "The Shocking Alternative." 1942, Broadcasting House, London, England, UK. Radio broadcast.

Current Citation

Lewis, C. S. "The Shocking Alternative." Mere Christianity. HarperOne, 2015.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

Thomas Love Peacock

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Marriage Single life

Speaker

Sir Telegraph Paxarett

Author

Thomas Love Peacock

Source

Melincourt

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1817 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Peacock, Thomas Love. Melincourt. London: T. Hookham, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Peacock, Thomas Love. Melincourt, edited by Gary Dyer. Cambridge University Press, 2022, ch. 7.

I especially hate turtlenecks. Like wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day.

Mitch Hedberg

Comedy Central Presents

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Clothing

Speaker

Mitch Hedberg

Source

Comedy Central Presents

Medium

Comedy special

Genre

Comedy (stand up)

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Hedberg, Mitch. Comedy Central Presents. Comedy Central, 5 Jan. 1999.

Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Hunter S. Thompson

Security

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Topic

Taking risks

Author

Hunter S. Thompson

Source

Security The Spectator

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Thompson, Hunter S. “Security.” The Spectator, 1951.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

John Muir

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Spending time in nature Nature

Author

John Muir

Source

The Yellowstone National Park The Atlantic

Medium

Essay Magazine

Genre

Nature writing

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1898 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Muir, John. "The Yellowstone National Park." Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898.

Current Citation

Muir, John. "The Yellowstone National Park." Our National Parks. Dover Publications, 2019.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

George Shultz

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Negotiation Power Political theory International politics Politics

Speaker

George Shultz

Source

Moral Principles and Strategic Interests: The Worldwide Movement Toward Democracy

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1986 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Shultz, George. "Moral Principles and Strategic Interests: The Worldwide Movement Toward Democracy." Landon Lecture Series. 14 Apr. 1986, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.

If it's legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.

Todd Akin

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Rape

Speaker

Todd Akin

Medium

Interview

Statement Type

Political gaffe

Language

English

Time

2012 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Akin, Todd. Interviewed by Charles Jaco. KTVI-TV, 19 Aug. 2012.

The road to resolution lies by doubt:
The next way home's the farthest way about.

Francis Quarles

Emblems

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Doubt and skepticism

Author

Francis Quarles

Source

Emblems

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1635 1630s 17th century

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Citation

Quarles, Francis. Emblemes, Divine and Moral. London, 1635, bk. 4, emblem 2.

For want of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost.

George Herbert

Outlandish Proverbs

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Little things make a big difference

Author

George Herbert

Source

Outlandish Proverbs

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1633 1630s 17th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Herbert, George. Jacula Prudentum, or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Microform. London: Humphrey Blunden, 1640.

Current Citation

Herbert, George. "Outlandish Proverbs." Herbert: The Complete English Works, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater. Everyman's Library, 1995, no. 495.

What, then, does the Negro want? His answer is very simple. He wants only what all Americans want. He wants opportunity to make real what the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights say, what the Four Freedoms establish. While he knows these ideals are open to no man completely, he wants only his equal chance to obtain them.

Mary McLeod Bethune

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Civil rights Equality of opportunity

Author

Mary McLeod Bethune

Source

Certain Unalienable Rights

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Bethune, Mary McLeod. "Certain Unalienable Rights." What the Negro Wants, edited by Rayford Logan. University of North Carolina Press, 1944.

I've always sensed that language is the great liberator. The fitting phrase, the precise word-these permit us to be more nearly ourselves.

Carol Shields

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Power of words Language

Speaker

Carol Shields

Source

Larry's Party

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Shields, Carol. "An Interview with Carol Shields from Penguin.com," author's website, n.d., http://www.carol-shields.com/larryspartyinterview.pdf.

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic, corrupt press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

Joseph Pulitzer

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Joseph Pulitzer

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English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Pulitzer, Joseph. "The College of Journalism.” The North American Review, May 1904.

Not only did we play the race card, we dealt it from the bottom of the deck.

Robert Shapiro

On the O.J. Simpson defense team's strategy.

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OJ Simpson Trial

Speaker

Robert Shapiro

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Shapiro, Robert. Interviewed by Barbara Walters. ABC News, 3. Oct. 1995.