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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling

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Topic

Power of words Language Drugs

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Source

Surgeons and the Soul

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1923 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "Surgeons and the Soul." The Royal College of Surgeons Annual Dinner. 14 Feb. 1923, London, England, UK.

Current Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "Surgeons and the Soul." A Book of Words. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land.

Mao Zedong

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Topic

Chinese communism

Speaker

Mao Zedong

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

Chinese

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Zedong, Mao. "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People." Eleventh Session (Enlarged) of the Supreme State Conference. 27 Feb. 1957, Beijing, China.

This is a great and terrible world. I never knew there were so many men alive in it.

Rudyard Kipling

Kim

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Topic

The world

Speaker

Old Man (Kim)

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Source

Kim

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1901 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

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.

Four things greater than all things are,—
Women and Horses and Power and War.

Rudyard Kipling

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Topic

Women Power War Horses

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Source

The Ballad of the King's Jest

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1890 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "The Ballad of the King's Jest." Macmillan’s Magazine, Feb. 1890, I. 38.

Current Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "The Ballad of the King's Jest." The Collected Poems of Rudyard Kipling. Wordsworth Editions, 1999.

The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage.

Emperor Hirohito

Part of Emperor Hirohito's broadcast announcing Japan's surrender after the atom bomb had destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.

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Topic

The atom bomb Nuclear weapons World War II

Speaker

Emperor Hirohito

Medium

Speech

Statement Type

Understatement

Language

Japanese

Time

1945 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Emperor Hirohito. The Jewel Voice. 15 Aug. 1945, Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Japan. Broadcast.

Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world:
A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream;
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud.
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.

Nagarjuna

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Topic

The ephemeral Impermanence

Author

Nagarjuna

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Sanskrit

Time

180 180s 2nd century

Era

Classical antiquity

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Vajracchedikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra [The Diamond Sutra]. c. 868.

Current Citation

The Diamond Sutra, translated by Red Pine. Counterpoint, 2002.

But it’s a resilient place, the world, and its beauty is still astonishing, and as for the mess we’ve made, you can change it, and I believe you’re going to.

Salman Rushdie

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Topic

Changing the world The world Progress

Speaker

Salman Rushdie

Source

2015 Emory commencement address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Language

English

Time

2015 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rushdie, Salman. "Keynote Address." Commencement. 19 May 2015, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

What can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished? The hard reality is, surely, that for the likes of you and I, there is little choice other than to leave our fate, ultimately, in the hands of those great gentlemen at the hub of this world who employ our services. What is the point in worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one’s life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy. And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that is in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment.

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

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Topic

Dwelling on the past Regrets The past

Author

Kazuo Ishiguro

Source

The Remains of the Day

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day. Faber & Faber, 1989.

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

If

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Topic

Opportunities

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Source

If

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "If—". Rewards and Fairies. Macmillan and Co., 1910, st. 4.

Current Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "If—". Rudyard Kipling: Stories and Poems, edited by Daniel Karlin. Oxford University Press, 2015, st. 4.

No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still some things you can’t reveal.

Haruki Murakami

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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Topic

Vulnerability Intimacy Connecting with others

Author

Haruki Murakami

Source

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Medium

Novel

Language

Japanese

Time

2013 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Murakami, Haruki. 色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年 [Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage]. Bungeishunju, 2013.

Of all the calamities, all the sufferings, all the terrors of this world, the only principle is the feeling or love of the self: it must be renounced.

Shantideva

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Topic

Happiness

Author

Shantideva

Source

Bodhicaryavatara

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Sanskrit

Time

700 700s 8th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Shantideva. बोधिसत्त्वाचर्यावतार [Bodhicaryavatara]. c. 700, ch. 8.

Current Citation

Shantideva. The Bodhicaryavatara, translated by Kat Crosby and Andrew Skilton. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 8.

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same.

Rudyard Kipling

If

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Topic

Equanimity

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Source

If

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "If—". Rewards and Fairies. Macmillan and Co., 1910, st. 2.

Current Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "If—". Rudyard Kipling: Stories and Poems, edited by Daniel Karlin. Oxford University Press, 2015, st. 2.

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Topic

Individual vs. the collective Isolation The crowd Man as social animal

Author

Rabindranath Tagore

Language

Bengali

Time

1916 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Tagore, Rabindrath. Stray Birds. The Macmillan Company, 1916, no. 110.

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

Amartya Sen

Development as Freedom

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Topic

Democracy

Author

Amartya Sen

Source

Development as Freedom

Genre

Political literature Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom. Alfred A. Knopf, 1999, ch. 1.

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry-every man of every nation has done that-'tis the living up to it that's difficult.

William Makepeace Thackeray

The History of Henry Esmond

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Topic

Dying for one's religion

Speaker

The Trooper

Author

William Makepeace Thackeray

Source

The History of Henry Esmond

Medium

Novel

Genre

Historical fiction

Language

English

Time

1852 1850s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Thackeray, William Makepeace. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1852, bk. 1, ch. 6.

Current Citation

Thackeray, William Makepeace. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. Penguin Classics, 1970, bk. 1, ch. 6.

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

Shunryu Suzuki

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Topic

The self Ego Consciousness

Author

Shunryu Suzuki

Source

Zen Mind, Beginnner's Mind

Genre

Philosophical literature Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Weatherhill, 1970. Originally a talk given at his Zen center in c. 1969, Los Altos, CA, USA.

We need to ask ourselves not only what computers can do, but what computers should do.

Satya Nadella

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Topic

Morality and technology Technology Can vs. should

Speaker

Satya Nadella

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

2018 2010s 21st century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Nadella, Satya. Quoted in “Microsoft Build: Data privacy must be protected, CEO Satya Nadella tells technologists.” Written by Rachel Lerman. The Seattle Times, 7 May 2018. Originally a keynote speech. Build conference. 7 May 2018, Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA, USA.

A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Topic

Lilies Roses Flowers Authenticity

Author

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Source

Think on These Things

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Krishnamurti, Jiddu. Think on These Things. Harper & Row, 1964, ch. 20.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Julia Margaret Cameron

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Topic

Photography Beauty Art

Author

Julia Margaret Cameron

Source

Annals of My Glass House

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1874 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Cameron, Julia Margaret and Violet Hamilton. Annals of My Glass House: Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron. University of Washington Press, 1997.

In this world I would rather live two days like a tiger, than two hundred years like a sheep.

Tipu Sultan

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Topic

Dominance and submission

Speaker

Tipu Sultan

Language

English

Time

1800 1800s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Sultan, Tipu. Quoted in A View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultan, written by Alexander Beatson. W. Bulmer and Co., 1800, ch. 10.