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With or without it, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Steven Weinberg

On religion.

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Topic

Criticism of religion

Speaker

Steven Weinberg

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Weinberg, Steven. Address in Washington, DC. Conference on Cosmic Design. Apr. 1999, Washington, DC, USA.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

William Ralph Inge

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Topic

Aggression Conflict

Author

William Ralph Inge

Source

Patriotism

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Inge, William Ralph. "Patriotism." Outspoken Essays: First Series. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1919.

I have fallen in love with American names,
The sharp, gaunt names that never get fat,
The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims,
The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat,
Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

Stephen Vincent Benét

American Names

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Topic

America

Author

Stephen Vincent Benét

Source

American Names

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Benét, Stephen Vincent. "American Names." Yale Review, Oct. 1927.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. It is one of the great landmarks in man's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized. It is our way of escape from the use of torture.

William O. Douglas

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Topic

Fifth Amendment

Author

William O. Douglas

Language

English

Time

1954 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Douglas, William. An Almanac of Liberty. Doubleday & Co., 1954, p. 238.

At three years of age, the child's whole emotional life plan has been laid down, his emotional disposition set. At that age, the parents have already determined for him whether he is to grow into a happy person, wholesome and good-natured, whether he is to be a whining, complaining neurotic, an anger-driven, vindictive, over-bearing slave driver, or one whose every move in life is definitely controlled by fear.

John B. Watson

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Raising kids

Author

John B. Watson

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Watson, John B. "Are You Giving Your Child a Chance?" McCall's, 1927.

In bombers named for girls, we burned
The cities we had learned about in school-
Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among
The people we had killed and never seen.
When we lasted long enough they gave us medals;
When we died they said, "Our casualties were low."

Randall Jarrell

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Topic

Razing cities World War II War

Author

Randall Jarrell

Source

Losses

Medium

Poem

Genre

War poetry

Language

English

Time

1948 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jarrell, Randall. Losses. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948, I. 22.

The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.

Moss Hart

On New York City.

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Topic

New York City

Author

Moss Hart

Source

Act One

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Hart, Moss. Act One. Random House, 1959, pt. 2.

If God has died in the blare of the twentieth century and in houses too new and cheap to be haunted, one must seek him in the old quiet places, where he might still live on in retirement.

Wilfrid Sheed

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Topic

20th century Death of God Decline of religion

Author

Wilfrid Sheed

Source

The Good Word & Other Words

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Sheed, Wilfrid. The Good Word & Other Words. E. P. Dutton, 1978, pt. 1, ch. 12.

There was bad faith and good, honesty and dishonesty, courage and cowardice, selflessness and opportunism, wisdom and stupidity, good and bad on bath sides; and almost every individual involved, no matter where he stood, combined some or all of these antithetical qualities in his own person, in his own acts.... It will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.

Dalton Trumbo

On the Hollywood blacklist of suspected communists during the Red Scare.

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Topic

Red Scare

Speaker

Dalton Trumbo

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Trumbo, Dalton. Speech accepting an award from the Writers' Guild. 13 Mar. 1970, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Current Citation

Trumbo, Dalton. Quoted in Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical, written by Larry Ceplair and Christopher Trumbo. University Press of Kentucky, 2015, ch. 22.

This happened near the core
Of a world's culture. This
Occurred among higher things.
This was a philosophical conclusion.
Everybody gets what he deserves.

Alan Bold

June 1967 at Buchenwald

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Topic

The Holocaust

Author

Alan Bold

Source

June 1967 at Buchenwald

Medium

Poem

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Bold, Alan. A Perpetual Motion Machine. Chatto & Windus, 1969.

The first fall of snow is not only an event, but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, then where is it to be found?

J.B. Priestley

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Topic

Snow

Author

J.B. Priestley

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Priestley, J. B. "First Snow." Apes and Angels. Methuen, 1928.

Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth... Is that it is alive... Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, cleaming membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos... It has the organized, self-contained look of a live creature, full of information, marvelously skilled in handling the sun.

Lewis Thomas

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Topic

The earth

Author

Lewis Thomas

Source

The World's Biggest Membrane

Medium

Essay

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Thomas, Lewis. "The World's Biggest Membrane." The New England Journal of Medicine, 13 Sept. 1973.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

Lewis Thomas

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Worry Being present

Author

Lewis Thomas

Medium

Speech

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Thomas, Lewis. Address given at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. c. 1978, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, NY, USA.

Self-government is our right, a thing born in us at birth, a thing no more to be doled out to us, or withheld from us, by another people than the right to life itself-than the right to feel the sun, or smell the flowers, or to love our kind.

Roger Casement

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Topic

Political theory Politics

Speaker

Roger Casement

Source

King's Bench. R vs Casement

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Language

English

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Casement, Roger. King's Bench. R vs Casement [1017] KB 98, 134. 29 June 1916.

Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds,-and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of-wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air...
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor ever eagle flew-
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

John Gillespie Magee, Jr

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Topic

Flying

Author

John Gillespie Magee, Jr

Source

High Flight

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1941 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Magee, John Gillespie, Jr. "High Flight." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 12 Nov. 1941.

This book is about the organization man...The people I am talking about...are not the workers, nor are they the white-collar people in the usual, clerk sense of the word. These people only work for the Organization. The ones I am talking about belong to it as well.

William H. Whyte, Jr.

The Organization Man

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Topic

Company man

Author

William H. Whyte, Jr.

Source

The Organization Man

Genre

Sociology

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Whyte, William H, Jr. The Organization Man. Simon & Schuster, 1956, ch. 1.

How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.

Aneurin Bevan

In Place of Fear

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Topic

Conservatism False consciousness

Author

Aneurin Bevan

Source

In Place of Fear

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Bevan, Aneurin. In Place of Fear. William Heinemann, 1952, ch. 1.

Of all the questions you might want to ask
about angels, the only one you ever hear
is how many can dance on the head of a pin.

No curiosity about how they pass the eternal time
besides circling the Throne chanting in Latin
or delivering a crust of bread to a hermit on earth
or guiding a boy and a girl across a rickety wooden bridge.

Billy Collins

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Topic

Angels

Author

Billy Collins

Source

Questions About Angels

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1991 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Collins, Billy. Questions About Angels. Quill, 1991.

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up the net.

Franklin P. Adams

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Topic

Middle age Aging

Author

Franklin P. Adams

Source

Nods and Becks

Language

English

Time

1944 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Adams, Franklin P. Nods and Becks. Whittlesey House, 1944.

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation…we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Bernard Baruch

Address to the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission, June 14, 1946

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Topic

Atomic Age Nuclear weapons

Speaker

Bernard Baruch

Source

Address to the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission, June 14, 1946

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Baruch, Bernard M. Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. First session of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. 14 June 1946, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA.