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The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.

John Roberts

Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1

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Topic

American politics

Author

John Roberts

Source

Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

2007 2000s 21st century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Roberts, John. United States, Supreme Court. Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1. United States Reports, vol. 551, 28 June 2007, pp. 701-876, https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/551/701/.

For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays

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Topic

Nature of truth

Author

Michel de Montaigne

Source

Of Experience Essays

Medium

Essay

Language

French

Time

1580 1580s 16th century

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Original Citation

De Montaigne, Michel. "De l'Experience [Of Experience]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

Current Citation

De Montaigne, Michel. "On Experience." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

You've gotta remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the New West. You know—morons.

Gene Wilder

Blazing Saddles

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Farmers Salt of the earth

Speaker

Jim "Waco Kid"

Actor

Gene Wilder

Source

Blazing Saddles

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1974 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Blazing Saddles. Directed by Mel Brooks, Crossbow Productions, 1974.

Business is war. It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat. If my competitor were drowning, I'd walk over and I'd put a hose right in his mouth.

Ray Kroc

Founder

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Business competition Capitalism

Speaker

Ray Kroc

Actor

Michael Keaton

Source

Founder

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

2016 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Founder. Directed by John Lee Hancock, FilmNation Entertainment/The Combine/Faliro House Productions S. A., 2016.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

Stewart Brand

How Buildings Learn

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Topic

Libraries Power of literature

Author

Stewart Brand

Source

How Buildings Learn

Language

English

Time

1994 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Brand, Stewart. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built. Viking Press, 1994, ch. 3.

The end must justify the means.

Matthew Prior

Hans Carvel

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Topic

Moral theory Justifications and rationales

Author

Matthew Prior

Source

Hans Carvel

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

Language

English

Time

1700 1700s 17th century

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Citation

Prior, Matthew. Hans Carvel. c. 1700.

What is your aim in philosophy?-To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations

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Topic

Purpose of philosophy Philosophy

Author

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source

Philosophical Investigations

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

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Original Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophische Untersuchungen [Philosophical Investigations]. Suhrkamp, 1953, pt. 1.

Current Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, et. al., edited by P. M. S. Hacker and Joachim Schulte. Wiley Blackwell, 2009, pt. 1.

"A fair day's-wages for a fair day's work:" it is as just a demand as Governed men ever made of Governing. It is the everlasting right of man.

Thomas Carlyle

Past and Present

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Topic

Workers' rights Human rights Citizen and state

Author

Thomas Carlyle

Source

Past and Present

Language

English

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

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Original Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843, bk. 1, ch. 3.

Current Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present, edited by David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. Oxford University Press, 2023, bk. 1, ch. 3.

His bark is worse than his bite.

George Herbert

Jacula Prudentum

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Topic

Aggression

Author

George Herbert

Source

Jacula Prudentum

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1633 1630s 17th century

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Citation

Herbert, George. Jacula Prudentum, or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Microform. London: T. Garthwait, 1651.

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar... Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.

William James

The Principles of Psychology

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Topic

Formation of character Decisions and choices Actions have consequences

Author

William James

Source

The Principles of Psychology

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

English

Time

1890 1890s 19th century

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Citation

James, William. The Principles of Psychology. Vol. 1, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890, ch. 4.

North Korean Leader Kim Jung Un just stated that the "Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times." Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!

Donald Trump

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Topic

Nuclear weapons

Author

Donald Trump

Medium

Tweet

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

2018 2010s 21st century

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Citation

@realDonaldTrump. "North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!" Twitter, 2 Jan. 2018, 7:49 p.m., https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/948355557022420992.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

Martin Heidegger

Building Dwelling Thinking

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Language

Author

Martin Heidegger

Source

Building Dwelling Thinking

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Heidegger, Martin. "Bauen Wohnen Denken [Building Dwelling Thinking]." Darmstadt Symposium on Man and Space. 5 Aug. 1951, Darmstadt, Germany. Lecture.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.

Herbert Marcuse

One-Dimensional Man

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Topic

Limits of democracy Elections Democracy

Author

Herbert Marcuse

Source

One-Dimensional Man

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Marcuse, Herbert. One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. Beacon Press, 1964, ch. 1.

I can settle down and be doin' just fine
Till I hear an old freight rollin' down the line,
Then I hurry straight home and pack
And if I didn't go, I believe I'd blow my stack
I love you baby, but you gotta understand
When the Lord made me he made a ramblin' man.

Hank Williams

Ramblin' Man

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Topic

Wanderlust Commitment (relationships) Relationships

Speaker

Hank Williams

Source

Ramblin' Man

Medium

Song

Genre

Country music

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Williams, Hank. Ramblin' Man. MGM Records, 1951.

Once I had recognized the taste of the crumb of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime flowers which my aunt used to give me... Immediately the old gray house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like the scenery of a theater.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Topic

Memory

Author

Marcel Proust

Source

Swann's Way In Search of Lost Time

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

French

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Du côté de chez Swann [The Way by Swann's]. Paris: Grasset, 1913.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. Swann's Way, edited and translated by Lydia Davis. Penguin Classics, 2004.

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.

Hugo Black

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan

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Topic

First Amendment Freedom of speech and expression American politics

Author

Hugo Black

Source

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Black, Hugo. United States, Supreme Court. New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. United States Reports, vol. 376, 9 Mar. 1964, pp. 254-305. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/376/254/.

Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the clouds and the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?

Tecumseh

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Topic

Property rights

Speaker

Tecumseh

Language

English

Time

1810 1810s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Tecumseh. Speech to General William Henry Harrison. 14 Aug. 1810, Council at Vincennes, Indiana Territory, USA.

Current Citation

Tecumseh. Quoted in A History of the Indians of the United States, written by Angie Debo. University of Oklahoma Press, 2013.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Aldous Huxley

Proper Studies

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Topic

Inconvenient truth Facts

Author

Aldous Huxley

Source

A Note on Dogma Proper Studies

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Huxley, Aldous. "A Note on Dogma." Proper Studies. Chatto & Windus, 1927.

I
a universe of atoms
an atom in the universe.

Richard Feynman

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Topic

Man and the universe Nature of man

Speaker

Richard Feynman

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Feynman, Richard. "The Value of Science." 1955, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, USA.

Perhaps the interpretation of the Koran would now be taught in the schools of Oxford, and her pulpits might demonstrate to a circumcised people the sanctity and truth of the revelation of Mahomet.

Edward Gibbon

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

On the counterfactual possibility of an Arab victory against the French army at Poitiers in 732 AD.

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Topic

Counterfactual history Inflection points Christianity and Islam

Author

Edward Gibbon

Source

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1789 1780s 18th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 6, London: Strahan & Cadell, 1789, ch. 52.

Current Citation

Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-6. Vol. 6. Everyman's Library, 2010, ch. 52.