Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down.

Wilson Mizner

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Topic

Golden rule Kindness

Speaker

Wilson Mizner

Source

The Legendary Mizners

Genre

Biography

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Mizner, Wilson. Quoted in The Legendary Mizners, written by Alva Johnston. Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953, ch. 4.

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The world began without the human race and it will end without it... Man has never-save only when he reproduces himself-done other than cheerfully dismantle millions upon millions of structures and reduce their elements to a state in which they can no longer be reintegrated.

Claude Levi-Strauss

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Source
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Levi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes Tropiques [Sad Tropics]. Librairie Plon, 1955, pt. 9, ch. 36.

Current Citation

Levi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes Tropiques, translated by John and Doreen Weightman. Penguin Classics, 2012, pt. 9, ch. 36.

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Know thyself.

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Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius

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Thales

Author

Diogenes Laërtius
Source
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Medium
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Genre
Philosophical literature
Statement Type
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Language
Greek
Time
3rd century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Thales. Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius. c. 240 AD, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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Thales. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 1, ch. 1.