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You may go over the world and you will find that every form of religion that has breathed upon this earth, has degraded woman. There is not one that has not always made her subject to man.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Topic

Oppression of women Religion

Speaker

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1885 1880s 19th century

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Original Citation

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Speech in Washington, DC. Seventeeth Annual Convention of the National Woman Suffrage Assoociation. Jan. 1885, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: When Clowns Make Laws for Queens, 1880-1887. Vol. 4, Rutgers University Press, 1997.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Alan Watts

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Topic

Nature of life Life Permanence Impermanence

Author

Alan Watts

Source

Play to Live

Genre

Religious literature Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Watts, Alan. Play to Live: Selected Seminars. And Books, 1982.

Man is a Tool-using Animal...without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.

Thomas Carlyle

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Topic

Man and animals Tools Nature of man

Author

Thomas Carlyle

Source

Sartor Resartus

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1834 1830s 19th century

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Original Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "Sartor Resartus." Fraser's Magazine, Nov. 1833–Aug. 1834. Serial.

Current Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. Sartor Resartus, edited by Kerry McSweeney and Peter Sabor. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 5.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H.P. Lovecraft

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Topic

Making sense of things Contradiction

Author

H.P. Lovecraft

Source

The Call of Cthulhu

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Lovecraft, Howard Phillips. "The Call of Cthulhu." Weird Tales, Feb. 1928.

Current Citation

Lovecraft, Howard Phillips. "The Call of Cthulhu." The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, edited by S. T. Joshi. Penguin Classics, 2016.

We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did."

Izaak Walton

The Compleat Angler

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Topic

Fishing

Author

Izaak Walton

Source

The Compleat Angler

Medium

Treatise

Language

English

Time

1653 1650s 17th century

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Original Citation

Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1653, pt. 1, ch. 5.

Current Citation

Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, edited by Marjorie Swann. Oxford University Press, 2014, pt. 1, ch. 5.

They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.

G.K. Chesterton

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Topic

Travel Open-mindedness

Speaker

Gabriel Gale

Author

G.K. Chesterton

Source

The Poet and the Lunatics Nash's Magazine

Medium

Novel Magazine

Language

English

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

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Chesterton, G.K. "The Poet and the Lunatics." Nash's Magazine, 1921, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Chesterton, G.K. The Poet and the Lunatics. Dover, 2010, ch. 3.

What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

George Meredith

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Topic

Women criticizing women Women

Author

George Meredith

Source

Diana of the Crossways

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1885 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Meredith, George. Diana of the Crossways. London: Chapman and Hall, 1885. Originally published in Fortnightly, 1884.

It was divine nature which gave us the country, and man's skill that built the cities.

Marcus Terentius Varro

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Topic

Rural vs. urban Cities

Author

Marcus Terentius Varro

Source

On Agriculture (Varro)

Language

Latin

Time

27 BC 20s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

Varro, Marcus Terentius. Rerum rusticarum libri tres [Three Books on Agriculture]. 1st century BC, bk. 3.

No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still some things you can’t reveal.

Haruki Murakami

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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Topic

Vulnerability Intimacy Connecting with others

Author

Haruki Murakami

Source

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Medium

Novel

Language

Japanese

Time

2013 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Murakami, Haruki. 色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年 [Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage]. Bungeishunju, 2013.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world.

Hannah Arendt

On Violence

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Topic

Violence

Author

Hannah Arendt

Source

On Violence

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Arendt, Hannah. "On Violence." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972, ch. 3. Originally published as "A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence." by The New York Review, 27 Feb. 1969.

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh

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Topic

Punctuality

Author

Evelyn Waugh

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Waugh, Evelyn. Diary Entry. 26 March 1962.

Love comes from blindness,
Friendship comes from knowledge.

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

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Topic

Love and friendship Love Friendship

Author

Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy

Source

Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules: Maximes d'Amour.

Medium

Poem

Language

French

Time

1665 1660s 17th century

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Citation

De Bussy-Rabutin, Roger. Histoire Amoureuse des Gaules [Love history of the Gauls]. Cork: Editions à la Croix de Malte, 1665.

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

Philip K. Dick

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

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Topic

Facing the truth Delusion

Author

Philip K. Dick

Source

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1974 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Dick, Philip K. Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. Doubleday, 1974, ch. 15.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

Langston Hughes

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

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Topic

Rivers

Author

Langston Hughes

Source

The Negro Speaks of Rivers The Crisis

Medium

Poem Magazine

Statement Type

Vision

Language

English

Time

1921 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Crisis, June 1921, I. 5.

Current Citation

Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, I. 5.

To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affection. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind.

Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Topic

Political theory

Author

Edmund Burke

Source

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1790 1790s 18th century

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Original Citation

Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Edmund Burke

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Topic

Restraint Self-control

Author

Edmund Burke

Source

Letters of Edmund Burke

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1791 1790s 18th century

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Burke, Edmund. Letter to a Member of the National Assembly. London: J. Dodsley, 1791.

Current Citation

Burke, Edmund. Letter to a Member of the National Assembly." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

See, Winter comes to rule the varied year,
Sullen and sad.

James Thomson

The Seasons: Winter

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Topic

Winter Seasons

Author

James Thomson

Source

The Seasons: Winter

Language

English

Time

1726 1720s 18th century

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Citation

Thomson, James. Winter. London: John Millan, 1726.

Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient-dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short, Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.

Edward Said

Orientalism

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Topic

The Middle East

Author

Edward Said

Source

Orientalism

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Said, Edward. Orientalism. Pantheon Books, 1978, introduction.

I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel;
For words, like Nature, half reveal
And half conceal the Soul within.

Alfred Tennyson

In Memoriam A.H.H.

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Topic

Limits of language

Author

Alfred Tennyson

Source

In Memoriam A.H.H.

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1850 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. In Memoriam A.H.H. London: Edward Moxon, 1850, pt. 4, st. 5.

Current Citation

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "In Memoriam A.H.H." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009 pt. 4, st. 5.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Vacation Time off Too much of a good thing

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Children's Happiness A Treatise on Parents and Children

Medium

Treatise

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "Children's Happiness." A Treatise on Parents and Children. Binker North, 1910.