1910s

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I have come to the borders of sleep,
The unfathomable deep
Forest where all must lose
Their way.

Edward Thomas

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Topic

Sleep

Author

Edward Thomas

Source

Lights Out

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Thomas, Edward. "Lights Out." Poems. Henry Holt, 1917, I. 1.

Current Citation

Thomas, Edward. "Lights Out." Selected Poems of Edward Thomas. Faber & Faber, 2011, I. 1.

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

James Connolly

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Topic

Oppression of women Men and women Anti-capitalism Capitalism

Author

James Connolly

Source

The Re-Conquest of Ireland

Medium

Pamphlet

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Connolly, James. Labour in Ireland: Labour in Irish History: the Re-conquest of Ireland. Dublin: Irish Workers' Cooperative Society, 1915.

The fog comes
On little cat feet.
It sits looking
Over harbour and city
On silent haunches
And then moves on.

Carl Sandburg

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Topic

Fog Weather

Author

Carl Sandburg

Source

Fog

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Sandburg, Carl. "Fog." Chicago Poems. Henry Holt and Company, 1916, I. 1.

Current Citation

Sandburg, Carl. "Fog." The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003, I. 1.

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work-
I am the grass; I cover all.

Carl Sandburg

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Topic

Casualties of war War

Author

Carl Sandburg

Source

Grass

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Sandburg, Carl. "Grass." Cornhuskers. Henry Holt and Company, 1918, I. 1.

Current Citation

Sandburg, Carl. "Grass." The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003, I. 1.

Democracy is not tearing down; it is a building up. It is not denial of the divine right of Kings; it supplements that claim with the assertion of the divine right of all men. It does not destroy; it fulfills. It is the consummation of all theories of government, to the spirit of which all the nations of the Earth must yield. It is the great constructive course of the ages.

Calvin Coolidge

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Topic

Democracy Democratic triumphalism

Speaker

Calvin Coolidge

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Coolidge, Calvin. "Equal Rights." 4 July 1916, Daniel Webster's home, Marshfield, MA, USA.

Just have one more try-it's dead easy to die,
It's the keeping-on-living that's hard.

Robert W. Service

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Topic

Persistence Never giving up Challenges of life Life

Author

Robert W. Service

Source

The Quitter

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1912 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Service, Robert W. "The Quitter." Rhymes of a Rolling Stone. Dodd, Mead and Co., 1912.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Elbert Hubbard

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Topic

Man and machine Genius Human potential

Author

Elbert Hubbard

Source

A Thousand and One Epigrams

Language

English

Time

1911 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hubbard, Elbert. A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard. The Roycrofters, 1911.

It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle-they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.

Alfred North Whitehead

An Introduction to Mathematics

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Topic

Nature of progress Progress Mindfulness

Author

Alfred North Whitehead

Source

An Introduction to Mathematics

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1911 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Whitehead, Alfred North. An Introduction to Mathematics. Henry Holt and Company/Williams and Norgate, 1911, ch. 5.

Is there not a casual connection between the development of these huge, indomitable trusts and the horrible crimes now under investigation?... Is it not irony to speak of the equality of opportunity in a country cursed with their bigness?

Louis Brandeis

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Topic

Big business Monopoly

Author

Louis Brandeis

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1911 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Brandeis, Louis D. Letter to Paul Kellogg. 19 Dec. 1911.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

John McCrae

In Flanders Fields

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Topic

World War I

Author

John McCrae

Source

In Flanders Fields

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1915 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

McCrae, John. "In Flanders Fields." Punch, 8 Dec. 1915.

If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

Hermann Hesse

Gertrude

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Topic

Living intentionally Purpose of life Personal growth Authenticity

Author

Hermann Hesse

Source

Gertrude

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hesse, Herman. Getrud [Gertrude]. Albert Langen, 1910.

Current Citation

Hesse, Herman. Gertrude, translated by Hilda Rosner. Picador, 2005.

Cultural evolution is equivalent to the removal of ornament from articles in daily use.

Adolf Loos

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Topic

Cultural evolution Minimalism

Speaker

Adolf Loos

Medium

Lecture

Language

German

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Loos, Adolf. "Ornament und Verbrechen [Ornament and Crime]." 21 Jan. 1910, Academic Association for Literature and Music, Vienna, Austria. Lecture.

Current Citation

Loos, Adolf. Ornament and Crime. Penguin Classics, 2019.

If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas.

Jean Cocteau

Barabbas was the criminal released by Pontius Pilate , at the crowd's insistence, instead of Jesus.

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Topic

The mob The masses

Author

Jean Cocteau

Source

The Cock and the Harlequin

Medium

Essay

Language

French

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Cocteau, Jean. Le Coq et l'Arlequin [The Cock and the Harlequin]. Paris: Editions de la Sirene, 1918.

But there is good and reason in us, in human beings, with whom fortune plays, and we can be stronger than nature and fate, if only for a few hours. And we can draw close to one another in times of need, understand and love one another, and live to comfort each other. And sometimes, when the black depths are silent, we can do even more. We can then be gods for moments, stretch out a commanding hand and create things which were not there before and which, when they are created, continue to live without us.

Hermann Hesse

Gertrude

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Topic

Human potential Creativity Creation

Author

Hermann Hesse

Source

Gertrude

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hesse, Herman. Getrud [Gertrude]. Albert Langen, 1910.

Current Citation

Hesse, Herman. Gertrude, translated by Hilda Rosner. Picador, 2005.

Christ of his gentleness
Thirsting and hungering,
Walked in the wilderness;
Soft words of grace He spoke
Unto lost desert-folk
That listened wondering.

Robert Graves

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Topic

Jesus The Gospel Christianity

Author

Robert Graves

Source

In the Wilderness

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Graves, Robert. "In the Wilderness." Over the Brazier. c. 1916.

Current Citation

Graves, Robert. "In the Wilderness." The Complete Poems: In One Volume. Penguin Books, 2003, l. 1-6.

I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable, established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.

William Tyler Page

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Topic

America

Author

William Tyler Page

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Page, William Tyler. "The American's Creed." House of Representatives meeting. 3 Apr. 1918, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA. Originally, a submission to a nationwide patriotic contest. c. 1917.

Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end.

Douglas Haig

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Topic

World War I No surrender War

Author

Douglas Haig

Source

Special Order of the Day

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

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Citation

Haig, Douglas. "Special Order of the Day." 11 Apr. 1918, Great Britain, UK.

There is no human being on earth who is capable of declaring who he is, with certainty. No one knows what he has come to this world to do, to what his acts, feelings, ideas correspond, or what his real name is, his imperishable Name in the registry of Light.

Leon Bloy

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Topic

Self-knowledge The human condition

Author

Leon Bloy

Source

The Soul of Napoleon

Language

French

Time

1912 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Bloy, Leon. L'ame de Napoleon [The Soul of Napoleon]. 1912, introduction.

I think all men recognize that in time of war the citizen must surrender some rights for the common good which he is entitled to enjoy in time of peace. But, sir, the right to control their own government according to constitutional forms is not one of the rights that the citizens of this country are called upon to surrender in time of war.

Robert M. La Follette Sr.

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Topic

War

Speaker

Robert M. La Follette Sr.

Language

English

Time

1917 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

La Follette, Robert M, Sr. Quoted in The Senate, 1789-1989, written by Robert C. Byrd. U.S. Senate Historical Office, 1988. Originally an address called "Free Speech in Wartime." Senate meeting. 6 Oct. 1917, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

William Ralph Inge

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Topic

Aggression Conflict

Author

William Ralph Inge

Source

Patriotism

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Inge, William Ralph. "Patriotism." Outspoken Essays: First Series. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1919.