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Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labors... Then surely it is braver, a saner and truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men.

Roger Casement

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Topic

Resisting authority Revolution

Speaker

Roger Casement

Source

King's Bench. R vs Casement

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

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Citation

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

When I communicate my thought and my sentiments to a friend with whom I am in full sympathy, so that my feelings pass into him and I am conscious of what he feels, do I not live in his brain as well as in my own-most literally!

Charles Sanders Peirce

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Topic

Communication Connecting with others Friendship

Author

Charles Sanders Peirce

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Peirce, Charles Sanders. Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Science and Philosophy. Vol. 7, The Belknap Press, 1966, par. 591.

It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.

Steven Weinberg

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Topic

The universe

Author

Steven Weinberg

Source

The First Three Minutes

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Weinberg, Steven. The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe. Basic Books, 1977, epilogue.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

Edward Hoagland

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Topic

Man and animals

Author

Edward Hoagland

Source

Harper's Magazine

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Hoagland, Edward. "The Tug of Life at the End of the Leash." Harpers Magazine, Feb. 1975.

Buildings will collapse, power plants will stop generating electricity. Generals will drop atomic bombs on their own populations. Mad revolutionaries will run in the streets, crying fantastic slogans. I have often thought that it would begin in New York. This metropolis has all the symptoms of a mind gone berserk.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The New Yorker

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End of the world New York City

Author

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Source

The Cafeteria The New Yorker

Medium

Short story Magazine

Language

English

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Singer, Isaac Bashevis. "The Cafeteria." The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 1968.

We are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth. The precise cause of this change is the imminent creation by technology of entities with greater than human intelligence.

Vernor Vinge

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Artificial intelligence Technological progress

Speaker

Vernor Vinge

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Vinge, Vernor. "Technological Singularity." VISION-21 Symposium. 30 Mar. 1993 - 31 Mar. 1993, NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH, USA. Speech.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

Enoch Powell

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Topic

Politicians Politics

Author

Enoch Powell

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Powell, Enoch. Joseph Chamberlain. Thames and Hudson, 1977.

If you look at a dog following the advice of his nose, he traverses a patch of land in a completely unplottable manner. And he invariably finds what he's looking for.

W.G. Sebald

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Topic

Dogs Animals Discovery

Speaker

W.G. Sebald

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Sebald, Winifred Georg. Interview with Joe Cuomo. Queens College Evening Reading Series. 13 Mar. 2001, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA. Question and answer session.

I think continually of those who were truly great... The names of those who in their lives fought for life,
Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.
Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun,
And left the vivid air signed with their honor.

Stephen Spender

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Topic

Greatness

Author

Stephen Spender

Source

The Truly Great

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Spender, Stephen. "I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great." Poems. Faber and Faber, 1933.

Business is built by men who care-care enough to disagree, fight it out to a finish, get facts. When two men always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

William Wrigley Jr.

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Building a business Business

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William Wrigley Jr.

Source

The American Magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1931 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Wrigley, William Jr. "Spunk Never Cost Man a Job Worth Having." Interviewed by Neil M. Clark. The American Magazine, Mar. 1931.

It is... Time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on the state.

John Major

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Topic

Personal responsibility Politics

Author

John Major

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Major, John. Speech at the Conservative Party Conference. Conservative Pary Conference. 8 Oct. 1993, Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Arthur C. Clarke

Also known as Clarke's First Law.

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Topic

Technological progress Progress

Author

Arthur C. Clarke

Source

Profiles of the Future

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Clarke, Arthur C. "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination." Profiles of the Future. Gollancz, 1962.

There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens.

Desmond Morris

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Topic

Primates Man and animals

Author

Desmond Morris

Source

The Naked Ape

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Morris, Desmond. The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal. Jonathan Cape, 1967, introduction.

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America—not the battlefields of Vietnam.

Marshall McLuhan

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Topic

Vietnam War Media

Author

Marshall McLuhan

Source

Montreal Gazette

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1975 1970s 20th century

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Citation

McLuhan, Marshall. Montreal Gazette. 16 May 1975.

At eleven o'clock this morning came to an end the cruelest and most terrible war that has ever scourged mankind. I hope we may say thus, this fateful morning, came to an end all wars.

David Lloyd George

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Topic

World War I

Speaker

David Lloyd George

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Statement Type

Bad predictions Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

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Citation

George, David Lloyd. Address about the signing of an armistice. House of Commons. 11 Nov. 1918, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

The truth is that we need invertebrates but they don't need us. If human beings were to disappear tomorrow, the world would go on with little change... But if invertebrates were to disappear, I doubt that the human species could last more than a few months.

E.O. Wilson

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Topic

Man and animals Man and nature

Speaker

E.O. Wilson

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1987 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Wilson, Edward Osborne. "The Little Things That Run the World." The opening of the invertebrates exhibit. 7 May 1987, National Zoological Park, Washington, DC, USA.

True, we build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures-unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth our difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.

John W. Davis

On lawyers.

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Topic

Lawyers

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John W. Davis

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Davis, John W. Address in New York. 16 Mar. 1946, New York, NY, USA.

You cannot be a success in any business without believing that it is the greatest business in the world... You have to put your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Thomas Watson

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Topic

Success in business Building a business

Speaker

Thomas Watson

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1981 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Watson, Thomas. Quoted in IBM: Colossus in Transition, written by Robert Sobel. Truman Talley Books, 1981.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are common. But it is to be tolerated as a concession to human frailty, not applauded as desirable in itself.

R.H. Tawney

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Topic

Property rights

Author

R.H. Tawney

Source

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

Genre

Religious literature Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Tawney, Richard Henry. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Tawney, Richard Henry. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Angelico Press, 2021, ch. 1.

Were a language ever completely "grammatical," it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.

Edward Sapir

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Language

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Edward Sapir

Language

English

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Sapir, Edward. Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921, ch. 2.