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Burke said there were three estates in parliament; but, in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

Thomas Carlyle

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic

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Media Journalism

Author

Thomas Carlyle

Source

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic

Language

English

Time

1840 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "The Hero as Man of Letters." 19 May 1840, London, England, UK. Lecture.

To remember everything is a condition of madness.

Brian Friel

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Memory

Speaker

Hugh

Author

Brian Friel

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Friel, Brian. Translations, dir. Art O'Briain. 23 Sept. 1980,Guildhall, Derry, Northern Ireland, UK, act 3.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

C. Northcote Parkinson

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Delay

Author

C. Northcote Parkinson

Source

The Law of Delay

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Parkinson, C. Northcote. The Law of Delay: Interviews and Outerviews. John Murray, 1970, ch. 13.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Reflections

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Absence Missing someone

Author

François de La Rochefoucauld

Source

Reflections

Medium

Epigram

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

French

Time

1678 1670s 17th century

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Original Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

Current Citation

La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

William Hazlitt

On Going on a Journey

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Purpose of travel Travel

Author

William Hazlitt

Source

On Going on a Journey Table Talk (Hazlitt)

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1822 1820s 19th century

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Original Citation

Hazlitt, William. "On Going a Journey." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 2, London: H. Colburn.

Current Citation

Hazlitt, William. "On Going a Journey." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt, edited by Duncan Wu. Vol. 6, Routledge, 2020.

Not a "gay science," I should say, like some we have heard of; no, a dreary, desolate, and, indeed, quite abject and distressing one: what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science.

Thomas Carlyle

On the discipline of economics.

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Economics

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Thomas Carlyle

Language

English

Time

1849 1840s 19th century

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Carlyle, Thomas [published anonymously]. "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question." Fraser's Magazine, Dec. 1849.

Current Citation

Carlyle, Thomas. "The Nigger Question." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 29, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Oh, the comfort-the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person-having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.

Dinah Craik

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Topic

Connecting with others Value of friendship

Author

Dinah Craik

Source

A Life for a Life

Language

English

Time

1859 1850s 19th century

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Citation

Craik, Dinah Mulock. A Life for a Life. B. Tauchnitz, 1859, ch. 16.

America is God's crucible, the great melting pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming!

Israel Zangwill

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Immigration America

Speaker

David Quixano

Author

Israel Zangwill

Source

The Melting Pot

Medium

Play

Genre

Drama (play) Drama

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Zangwill, Israel. The Melting Pot. 5 Oct. 1908, Columbia Theatre, Washington, DC, USA, act 1.

In appearance, at least, he being on all occasions glad to be at friendship with me, though we hate one another, and know it on both sides.

Samuel Pepys

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Keeping up appearances Frenemies

Author

Samuel Pepys

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1668 1660s 17th century

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Pepys, Samuel. Diary entry. 22 Sept. 1668.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of observance of procedural safeguards.

Felix Frankfurter

McNabb v. United States

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Rule of law Freedom

Author

Felix Frankfurter

Source

McNabb v. United States

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Frankfurter, Felix. United States, Supreme Court. McNabb v. United States. United States Reports, vol. 318, 1 Mar. 1943, pp. 339-349. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/318/332/.

But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed,
Or like the snow falls in the river,
A moment white - then melts for ever.

Robert Burns

Tam o' Shanter

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Pleasure The ephemeral

Author

Robert Burns

Source

Tam o' Shanter

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1791 1790s 18th century

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Original Citation

Burns, Robert. "Tam O'Shanter." Edinburgh Herald/Edinburgh Magazine, Mar. 1791.

Current Citation

Burns, Robert. "Tam O'Shanter." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited by Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

Václav Havel

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Modern life

Author

Václav Havel

Medium

Letter

Language

Czech

Time

1983 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Havel, Vaclav. Letter to Olga Havlova. 5 Oct. 1981.

Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.

Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great

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Religion in the modern world Decline of religion Religion

Author

Christopher Hitchens

Source

God Is Not Great

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

2007 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Hitchens, Christopher. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Twelve/Hachette Book Group, 2007, ch. 5.

The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

J.B.S. Haldane

Reflection on the fact that there are 400,000 species of beetles, as opposed to 8,000 species of mammals.

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Nature of God God and nature

Speaker

J.B.S. Haldane

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Haldane, J. B. S. Speech given to the British Interplanetary Society. 1951, London, England, UK.

Once we have power, we shall never again give it up, unless we are carried out as corpses from our offices.

Paul Joseph Goebbels

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Nazi Germany

Author

Paul Joseph Goebbels

Medium

Personal journal

Language

German

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Goebbels, Joseph. Diary entry. 6 Aug. 1932.

We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, this hardness; but we aren't like that really. I mean... One can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold... Do you see what I mean?

John le Carré

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

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Vulnerability

Speaker

Control

Author

John le Carré

Source

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Medium

Novel

Genre

Spy novel Spy

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Carré, John le. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Victor Gollancz & Pan, 1963, ch. 2.

Difficulties are just things to overcome after all.

Ernest Shackleton

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Adversity

Author

Ernest Shackleton

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Shackleton, Ernest. Diary entry. 11 Dec. 1908.

The things which...are esteemed as the greatest good of all…can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With those three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

Baruch Spinoza

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What the world values

Author

Baruch Spinoza

Language

Latin

Time

1677 1670s 17th century

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Spinoza, Baruch. Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione [Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect]. 1677, ch. 1, sect. 3.

Current Citation

Spinoza, Baruch. "The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect." Ethics: with The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters, edited by Seymour Feldman, translated by Samuel Shirley. Hackett Publishing Company, 1992, ch. 1, sect. 3.

FIRST LAW: In every animal... A more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ... While the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears.
SECOND LAW: All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature in individuals... Are preserved by reproductions to the new individuals which arise.

Jean-Baptiste Lamark

Philosophie Zoologique

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Evolution

Author

Jean-Baptiste Lamark

Source

Philosophie Zoologique

Language

French

Time

1809 1800s 19th century

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Original Citation

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste. Philosophie zoologique [Zoological Philosophy]. Paris: Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, 1809, pt. 1, ch. 7.

Current Citation

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste. Zoological Philosophy, translated by Hugh Samuel Roger Elliott. Cambridge University Press, 2011, pt. 1, ch. 7.

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one.

Walter Savage Landor

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Jokes Failure

Speaker

Chatham

Author

Walter Savage Landor

Language

English

Time

1825 1820s 19th century

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Citation

Landor, Walter Savage. "Chesterfield and Chatham." Imaginary Conversations. c. 1825.