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The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Henry Adams

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Topic

Effects of power Effects of fame Power Fame

Author

Henry Adams

Source

The Education of Henry Adams

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 10.

Current Citation

Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 10.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

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Topic

Downsides of education Education

Author

Henry Adams

Source

The Education of Henry Adams

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 25.

Current Citation

Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 25.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

Orville Wright

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Topic

Credulity Doubt and skepticism

Author

Orville Wright

Source

Letters of Orville Wright

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Wright, Orville. "Orville Wright to George A. Spratt, Dayton, Ohio, June 7, 1908." Miracle at Kitty Hawk: The Letters of Wilbur and Orville Wright, edited by Fred. C. Kelly. Da Capo Press, 2002. Originally a letter to George A. Spratt. 7 June 1908.

The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

G.K. Chesterton

Orthodoxy

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Topic

Insanity

Author

G.K. Chesterton

Source

Orthodoxy

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Chesterton, G.K. "Orthodoxy." The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 1, Ignatius Press, 1986, ch. 4. Originally published by John Lane Co., 1908.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

George Bernard Shaw

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Poverty

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Major Barbara

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play)

Language

English

Time

1905 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. 28 Nov. 1905, Court Theatre, London, England, UK, preface.

Current Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, preface.

The thirteenth amendment secured them freedom; the fourteenth amendment due process of law, protection of property, and the pursuit of happiness; and the fifteenth amendment attempted to secure the negro against any deprivation of the privilege to vote because he was a negro. The thirteenth and fourteenth amendments have been generally enforced and have secured the objects for which they are intended. While the fifteenth amendment has not been generally observed in the past, it ought to be observed.

William Howard Taft

Inaugural Address of William Howard Taft

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Topic

Bill of Rights Civil rights American politics

Speaker

William Howard Taft

Source

Inaugural Address of William Howard Taft Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1909 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Taft, William Howard. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1909, Senate Chamber, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Women Men and women

Speaker

Undershaft

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Major Barbara

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play)

Language

English

Time

1905 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. 28 Nov. 1905, Court Theatre, London, England, UK, act 3.

Current Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021, act 3.

The symphony must be like the world; it must embrace everything.

Gustav Mahler

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Topic

Symphony Music

Speaker

Gustav Mahler

Source

Letters of Gustav Mahler

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Mahler, Gustav. Quoted in Jean Sibelius: His Life and Personality, written by Karl Ekman. Alan Wilmer, 1936.

We can act as if there were a God; feel as if we were free; consider Nature as if she were full of special designs; lay plans as if we were to be immortal; and we find then that these words do make a genuine difference in our moral life.

William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience

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Topic

Power of thought Beliefs

Author

William James

Source

The Varieties of Religious Experience

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

James, William. "The Reality of the Unseen." Gifford Lecture. c. 1902, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. Lecture.

Current Citation

James, William. "The Reality of the Unseen." The Varieties of Religious Experience, edited by Martin E. Marty. Penguin Classics, 1982.

What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of trouble and depressing subject matter. An art which might be for every mental worker, be he businessman or writer, like an appeasing influence, like a mental soother, something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue.

Henri Matisse

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Topic

Nature of art Art

Speaker

Henri Matisse

Source

Notes d'un Peintre

Medium

Interview

Language

French

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Liberman, Alexander. The Artist in His Studio. The Viking Press, 1960.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

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Topic

Influence on others Writers

Author

Henry Adams

Source

The Education of Henry Adams

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 17.

Current Citation

Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 17.

Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Henri Poincaré

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Topic

Science

Author

Henri Poincaré

Source

Science and the Hypothesis

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

French

Time

1901 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Poincare, Henri. La science et l'hypothese [Science and Hypothesis]. Flammarion, 1902, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Poincare, Henri. Science and Hypothesis: The Complete Text, translated by Melanie Frappier, Andrea Smith and David J. Stump, edited by Melanie Frappier and David J. Stump. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, ch. 9.

Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle... Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

Peter Kropotkin

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Topic

Man as social animal

Author

Peter Kropotkin

Source

Mutual Aid

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Kropotkin, Peter. Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. McClure Phillips & Co./William Heinemann, 1902, ch. 1. Originally published in The Nineteenth Century, c. 1890.

Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of "touching" a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

G.K. Chesterton

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Reason Persuasion Logic

Author

G.K. Chesterton

Source

Charles II Twelve Types: A Collection of Biographies

Medium

Essay Biography

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Chesterton, G.K. "Charles II." Twelve Types: A Collection of Biographies. Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902.