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I believe that in many cases the ideal size for the unit of control and organisation lies somewhere between the individual and the modern State. I suggest, therefore, that progress lies in the growth and the recognition of semi-autonomous bodies within the State.

John Maynard Keynes

The End of Laissez-faire

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Government Political theory

Author

John Maynard Keynes

Source

The End of Laissez-faire

Medium

Essay

Genre

Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Keynes, John Maynard. The End Of Laissez-faire. Hogarth Press, 1926, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Keynes, John Maynard. "The End of Laissaz-faire." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, edited by Robert Skidelsky, 2016, ch. 4.

One need only remind oneself of all that we expect from life to see how very strange it is, and to arrive at the conclusion that man has found his way into it by mistake and does not really belong there.

Italo Svevo

Zeno's Conscience

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Strangeness of life Nature of life

Author

Italo Svevo

Source

Zeno's Conscience

Medium

Novel

Language

Italian

Time

1923 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Svevo, Italo. La coscienza di Zeno [Zeno's Conscience]. Milan: Giuseppe Morreale Editore, 1923.

Current Citation

Svevo, Italo. Zeno's Conscience, translated by William Weaver. Everyman's Library, 2001.

The newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people most people read. It is the only book they read every day.

Walter Lippmann

What Modern Liberty Means

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Newspapers

Author

Walter Lippmann

Source

What Modern Liberty Means The Atlantic

Medium

Essay Magazine

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Lippmann, Walter. "What Modern Liberty Means." Liberty and the News. Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920. Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 1919.

I shall use the phrase "time's arrow" to express this one way property of time which has no analogue in space.

Arthur S. Eddington

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Nature of time

Author

Arthur S. Eddington

Source

The Nature of the Physical World

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Eddington, Arthur. "The Nature Of The Physical World." Gifford lecture. January – March 1927, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise

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Personal chemistry Connecting with others Friendship

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source

This Side of Paradise

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise. Scribner, 1920, bk. 1, ch. 1.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Metropolitan Magazine

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Downsides of wealth

Speaker

Anthony Patch

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source

The Beautiful and Damned Metropolitan Magazine

Medium

Novel Magazine

Statement Type

Inversion

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Beautiful and Damned." Metropolitan Magazine, Sept. 1921 - March 1922.

Current Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Beautiful and the Damned. Cambridge University Press, 2014, bk. 2, ch. 1.

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

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Running away Facing oneself

Speaker

Jake Barnes

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Source

The Sun Also Rises

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 1, ch. 2.

A bottle of wine was good company.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

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Wine Alcohol Getting drunk Good company

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Source

The Sun Also Rises

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 3, ch. 19.

Love... Is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Topic

Delusion Love

Author

Marcel Proust

Source

The Fugitive In Search of Lost Time

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

French

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.

Everyone behaves badly...Give them the proper chance.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

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Topic

Human nature

Speaker

Jake Barnes

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Source

The Sun Also Rises

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, , bk. 2, ch. 16.

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Topic

Beautiful women

Author

Marcel Proust

Source

The Fugitive In Search of Lost Time

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

French

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

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Topic

Purpose of life Killing time

Speaker

Daisy Buchanan

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source

The Great Gatsby

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, ch. 7.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Topic

Life and death Nature of death Death

Author

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Medium

Treatise

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

German

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. "Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung [Logical-Philosophical Treatise]." Annalen der Naturphilosophie [Annales of Natural Philosophy], 1921.

Current Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, translated by Michael Beaney. Oxford University Press, 2023.

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

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Topic

The rich

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source

The Great Gatsby

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, ch. 9.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

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Passage of time Aging Living life to the fullest Wasting time Life

Speaker

Robert Cohn

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Source

The Sun Also Rises

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 1, ch. 2.

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop

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Topic

Miracles Love

Speaker

Father Vaillant

Author

Willa Cather

Source

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1927 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Cather, Willa. Death Comes for the Archbishop. Alfred A. Knopf, 1927, bk. 1, ch. 4.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

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Topic

Creativity Imagination Knowledge

Speaker

Albert Einstein

Author

George Sylvester Viereck

Source

What Life Means to Einstein The Saturday Evening Post

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Einstein, Albert. "What Life Means to Einstein." Interviewed by George Sylvester Viereck. The Saturday Evening Post, 26 Oct. 1929.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

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Topic

Happiness Grief Personal growth

Author

Marcel Proust

Source

Time Regained In Search of Lost Time

Medium

Novel

Genre

Modernist literature

Language

French

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Le Temps retrouvé [Time Regained]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. Finding Time Again, edited and translated by Ian Patterson. Penguin Classics, 2023.

Civil disobedience... Becomes a sacred duty when the State has become lawless, or... Corrupt.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Civil disobedience Rebellion

Author

Mahatma Gandhi

Source

Young India

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Gandhi, Mahatma. "The Immediate Issue." Young India, 5 Jan. 1922.

In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Civil disobedience Fighting for justice

Speaker

Mahatma Gandhi

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Gandhi, Mahatma. Speech at his trial. The Great Trial of 1922. 18 Mar. 1922, Ahmedabad, India.

Current Citation

Gandhi, Mahatma. The Power of Nonviolent Resistance: Selected Writings, edited by Tridip Suhrud. Penguin Classics, 2019, pt. 1, ch. 9.