1932

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There is no substitute for hard work.

Thomas Edison

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Topic

Hard work Work

Author

Thomas Edison

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Edison, Thomas A. Quoted in Thomas A. Edison: The Authentic Life Story of the World's Greatest Inventor, written by Francis Miller. Stanley Paul, 1932.

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Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Thomas Edison

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Topic

Hard work Genius

Speaker

Thomas Edison

Source

Harper's Magazine

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Edison, Thomas. Quoted in "Edison in His Laboratory" by Martin André Rosanoff. Harper's Monthly, Sept. 1932.

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I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway

Death in the Afternoon

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Topic

Moral theory

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Source

Death in the Afternoon

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. Death in the Afternoon. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932, ch. 1.

4 of 29

These unhappy times call for the building of plans that... Build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Topic

New Deal The common man American politics

Speaker

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. "The Forgotten Man Speech." 7 April 1932, Albany, NY, USA.

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Too much happens... Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything... That's what is so terrible.

William Faulkner

Light in August

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Topic

Adaptability The human condition

Speaker

Reverend Gail Hightower

Author

William Faulkner

Source

Light in August

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Faulkner, William. Light in August. Smith & Haas, 1932, ch. 13.

Current Citation

Faulkner, William. Light in August, edited by Melanie Taylor. W. W. Norton & Company, 2022, ch. 13.

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I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.

Ogden Nash

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Topic

Consumerism Excessive development

Author

Ogden Nash

Source

Song of the Open Road

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Nash, Ogden. "Song of the Open Road." The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 1932.

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Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.

Bertrand Russell

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Topic

Work Social hierarchy

Author

Bertrand Russell

Source

In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays Harper's Magazine

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Russell, Bertrand. "In Praise of Idleness." In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays. George Allen & Unwin, 1935. Originally published in Harper's Magazine, Oct. 1932.

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No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Topic

Architecture

Author

Frank Lloyd Wright

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Wright, Frank Lloyd. An Autobiography. Longmans, Green and Co., 1932.

9 of 29

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.

Colette

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Topic

Politeness Friendship

Author

Colette

Source

The Pure and the Impure

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

French

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Colette. Le Pur et l'impur and Ces Plaisirs [The Pure and the Impure and These Pleasures]. J. Ferenczi & fils, 1932, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Colette. The Pure and the Impure. NYRB Classics, 2000, ch. 9.