You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.

Norman Douglas

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Topic

National character Advertising and marketing

Speaker

Bishop South Wind

Author

Norman Douglas

Source

South Wind

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Douglas, Norman. South Wind. Martin Secker, 1917, ch. 6.

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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; but that is the way to bet.

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Topic
Winners and losers

Author

Hugh Keough
Language
English
Time
1919 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Keough, Hugh. Quoted in Collier's. Feb. 1919.

Another quote from 1917

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success with it.

Sigmund Freud

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Topic
Effects of childhood Mothers and sons

Author

Sigmund Freud
Genre
Psychological literature
Language
German
Time
1917 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. "Eine Kindheitserinnerung aus 'Dichtung und Wahrheit [A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung und Warheit [Poetry and Truth].'" Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften [Journal of the Application of Psychoanalysis to the Humanities]. Vol. 5, 1917, pp. 49–57.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. "A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung Und Wahrheit.'" The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works, translated by James Strachey. Vol. 17, Vintage, 2001.