1900s

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What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ecce Homo

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Topic

Philosophers

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche

Source

Ecce Homo

Genre

Autobiography and memoir Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Definition

Language

German

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce homo: Wie man wird, was man ist [Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is]. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1908.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is, translated by Duncan Large. Oxford University Press, 2009.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth, and we must behave as be seems a people with such responsibilities.

Theodore Roosevelt

Second Inaugural Address of Theodore Roosevelt

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Topic

Internationalism American foreign policy American power America and the world

Speaker

Theodore Roosevelt

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Theodore Roosevelt Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1905 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Roosevelt, Theodore. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1905, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

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Topic

Uncertainty The human condition

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. 6.

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. 6.

Who hath desired the Sea? The sight of salt water unbounded?

Rudyard Kipling

Kim

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Topic

Salt water Ocean and sea

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Source

Kim

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1901 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "Kim." McClure's Magazine, Dec. 1900 - Oct. 1901.

Current Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. Kim, edited by Zohreh T. Sullivan. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

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Topic

Change starts at home Self-improvement Personal growth Change Progress

Author

Leo Tolstoy

Source

Three Methods of Reform

Medium

Essay

Language

Russian

Time

1900 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Tolstoy, Leo. "Three Methods of Reform." Pamphlets: Translated from the Russian. Free Age Press, 1900.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

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Topic

Order vs. chaos Chaos Order

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. 16.

Current Citation

Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams. Library of America, 1983, ch. 16.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Helen Keller

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Topic

Contentment

Author

Helen Keller

Source

The Story of My Life Ladies' Home Journal

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Keller, Helen. "The Story of My Life." Ladies' Home Journal, 1902.

Current Citation

Keller, Helen. The Story of My Life. Signet, 2010, ch. 22.

We know that self-government is difficult. We know that no people needs such high traits of character as that people which seeks to govern its affairs aright through the freely expressed will of the freemen who compose it.

Theodore Roosevelt

Second Inaugural Address of Theodore Roosevelt

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Topic

Self-government Morality and democracy

Speaker

Theodore Roosevelt

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Theodore Roosevelt Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1905 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Roosevelt, Theodore. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1905, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

Mark Twain

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Topic

Custom and convention Legal theory Law

Author

Mark Twain

Source

The Gorky Incident

Language

English

Time

1906 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. The Gorky Incident. 1906.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. "The Gorky Incident." Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings, edited by Bernard DeVoto. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004.

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

Joseph Pulitzer

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Topic

Freedom of the press Media

Author

Joseph Pulitzer

Language

English

Time

1904 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Pulitzer, Joseph. "The College of Journalism.” The North American Review, May 1904.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

G.K. Chesterton

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Topic

Literature Fiction Stories

Author

G.K. Chesterton

Source

A Defense of Penny-Dreadfuls The Defendant

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1901 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Chesterton, G.K. "The Defendant." The Wit, Whimsy and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 6, Coachwhip Publications, 2009. Originally published by R. Brinley Johnson, 1901.

It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.

O. Henry

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Topic

Swindles and scams

Author

O. Henry

Source

The Octopus Marooned The Gentle Grafter

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

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Citation

O. Henry. "The Octopus Marooned." The Gentle Grafter. The McClure Company, 1908.

The men with the muckrakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them...if they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Topic

Journalism

Author

Theodore Roosevelt

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1906 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The Man with the Muckrake." Laying of the cornerstone of the House Office Building. 14 Apr. 1906, House Office Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "The Man with the Muckrake." The Muckrakers, edited by Arthur Weinberg and Lila Weinberg. University of Illinois Press, 2001.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Going for it Settling

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings Man and Superman

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play)

Language

English

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "Man and Superman: Maxims for Revolutionists." Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021. Originally published by Archibald and Constable Co., Ltd., 1903.

The cure for the ills of Democracy is more Democracy.

Jane Addams

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Topic

Democracy Political theory Politics

Author

Jane Addams

Source

Democracy and Social Ethics

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Addams, Jane. Democracy and Social Ethics. The Macmillan Company, 1902, introduction.

Do not overlook the little joys!

Hermann Hesse

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Topic

The little things

Author

Hermann Hesse

Source

On Little Joys

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Advice

Language

German

Time

1905 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Hesse, Hermann. "On Little Joys." My Belief: Essays on Life and Art, edited by Theodore Ziolkowski, translated by Denver Lindley. Farrar, Straus and Gioux, 1974. Originally published as "Virtuosen-Konzert." Neue Zürcher Zeitung, c. 1929.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Topic

Military veterans Soldiers

Author

Theodore Roosevelt

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. Speech at the Lincoln Monument. 4 July 1903, Lincoln Monument, Springfield, IL, USA.

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Teaching

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Maxims for Revolutionists: Education Man and Superman

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play)

Language

English

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. "Man and Superman: Maxims for Revolutionists." Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2021. Originally published by Archibald and Constable Co., Ltd., 1903.

It's certain there is no fine thing
Since Adam's fall but needs much labouring.

W.B. Yeats

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Topic

Necessity of work Work

Author

W.B. Yeats

Source

Adam's Curse

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1903 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "Adam's Curse." In the Seven Woods. Elizabeth Yeats's Dun Emer Press, 1903.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "Adam's Curse." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

Theodore Roosevelt

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Topic

Environmental destruction Environmental protection

Speaker

Theodore Roosevelt

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr. "Seventh Annual Message." Joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives. 3 Dec. 1907, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.