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I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.

Helen Fielding

Bridget Jones's Diary

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Topic

Finding someone

Author

Helen Fielding

Source

Bridget Jones's Diary

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Fielding, Helen. Bridget Jones's Diary. Picador, 1996.

There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Henry Fielding

Tom Jones

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Character

Author

Henry Fielding

Source

Tom Jones

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story Picaresque

Language

English

Time

1749 1740s 18th century

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Original Citation

Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. London: Andrew Millar, 1749, bk. 15, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, edited by Alice Wakely. Penguin Classics, 2005.

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

William Hazlitt

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Chess Great men

Author

William Hazlitt

Language

English

Time

1821 1820s 19th century

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Original Citation

Hazlitt, William. "The Indian Jugglers." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 1, London: John Warren, 1821.

Current Citation

Hazlitt, William. "The Indian Jugglers." The Spirit of Controversy and Other Essays, edited by Jon Mee and James Grande. Oxford University Press, 2021.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

Miguel de Unamuno

The Tragic Sense of Life

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Topic

Belief in God

Author

Miguel de Unamuno

Source

The Tragic Sense of Life

Language

Spanish

Time

1912 1910s 20th century

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Citation

De Unamuno, Miguel. Del Sentimiento Tragico de la Vida [The Tragic Sense of Life]. Sociedad anónima Editorial, 1913, ch. 8.

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.

James George Frazer

The Golden Bough

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Topic

Mother in law

Author

James George Frazer

Source

The Golden Bough

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough. London: The Macmillan Company, 1922, ch. 18, sect. 3.

Current Citation

Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Oxford University Press, 1998, ch. 18, sect. 3.

Eternal peace is a dream, and not even a beautiful one, and war is a link in God's world order. In him, the noblest virtues of man, courage and renunciation, devotion to duty and willingness to sacrifice, unfold with the institution of life. Without the war, the world would become bogged down in materialism.

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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Praise of war War

Author

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Von Moltke, Helmuth. Letter to Johann Caspar Bluntschli. 11 Dec. 1880.

To establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.

Nicholas Conyngham Tindal

M'Naghten's Case

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Topic

Insanity Legal theory

Author

Nicholas Conyngham Tindal

Source

M'Naghten's Case

Medium

Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1843 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Tindal, Nicholas Conyngham. Delivering an exposition of the rules. M'Naghten's Case. c. 1843, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

There was peace in their hearts. They were filled with the fearlessness of those who have lost everything, the fearlessness which is not easy to come by but which endures.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In the First Circle

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Topic

Fearlessness

Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Source

In the First Circle

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander. В круге первом [In the First Circle]. Collins & Harvill Press/‎Harper & Row, 1968, ch. 87.

To doubt everything and to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; each saves us from thinking.

Henri Poincaré

Science and Hypothesis

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Topic

Critical thinking Doubt and skepticism Credulity

Author

Henri Poincaré

Source

Science and Hypothesis

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

French

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Poincare, Henri. La science et l'hypothese [Science and Hypothesis]. Flammarion, 1902, introduction.

Current Citation

Poincare, Henri. Science and Hypothesis: The Complete Text, translated by Melanie Frappier, Andrea Smith and David J. Stump, edited by Melanie Frappier and David J. Stump. Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, preface.

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

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Topic

Discovery Originality Creativity

Speaker

Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert. Quoted in The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas, written by Irving John Good. Heinemann, 1962, ch. 1, sect. 6.

My diving bell becomes less oppressive, and my mind takes flight like a butterfly. There is so much to do. You can wander off in space or in time, set out for Tierra del Fuego or for King Midas's court. You can visit the woman you love, slide down beside her and stroke her still-sleeping face.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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Topic

Imagination Power of thought

Author

Jean-Dominique Bauby

Source

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Bauby, Jean-Dominique. Le Scaphandre et le Papillon [The Diving Bell and the Butterfly]. Editions Robert Laffont, 1997, prologue.

We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

W.G. Sebald

Austerlitz

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Topic

Inflection points

Author

W.G. Sebald

Source

Austerlitz

Medium

Novel

Language

German

Time

2001 2000s 21st century

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Citation

Sebald, Winfried Georg. Austerlitz. C. Hanser, 2001.

The extermination camps, in endeavoring to turn man into a beast, intimated that it is not life alone which makes him man.

Andre Malraux

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Topic

The Holocaust

Author

Andre Malraux

Language

French

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Malraux, Andre. Antimemoires [Anti-memoirs]. Gallimard, 1967, sect. 2.

There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

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Topic

Taking action

Author

Peter Drucker

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Drucker, Peter. "Managing for Business Effectiveness." Harvard Business Review, 1963.

The highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

Nikos Kazantzakis

Zorba the Greek

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Topic

Awe

Author

Nikos Kazantzakis

Source

Zorba the Greek

Medium

Novel

Language

Greek

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Original Citation

Kazantzakis, Nikos. Βίος και Πολιτεία του Αλέξη Ζορμπά [Life and State of Alexis Zorba]. Athens: Dimitrakou, 1946, ch. 24.

Current Citation

Kazantzakis, Nikos. Zorba the Greek, translated by Peter Bien. Simon & Schuster, 2014, ch. 24.

He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.

James Joyce

Dubliners

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Topic

FOMO

Author

James Joyce

Source

A Painful Case Dubliners

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1914 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners. Grant Richards, 1914.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. "A Painful Case." Dubliners: Centennial Edition, edited by Terence Brown. Penguin Classics, 2014.

The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.

Pope John XXIII

Pacem in Terris

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Topic

Interconnectedness of all people International politics

Author

Pope John XXIII

Source

Pacem in Terris

Medium

Letter

Genre

Papal encyclical Religious literature

Language

Latin

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Pope John XXIII. "Pacem in Terris [Peace on Earth]." Litterae Encyclicae [Encyclical Letter]. 11 Apr. 1963, pt. 4.

There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.

Jules Renard

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Things get worse Pessimism

Author

Jules Renard

Medium

Personal journal

Language

French

Time

1908 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Renard, Jules. Journal entry. 31 Oct. 1908.

Current Citation

Renard, Jules. The Journal of Jules Renard, edited and translated by Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Roget. Tin House Books, 2017.

It is not the prize that can make us happy; it is not even the winning of the prize....[It is] the struggle, the long hot hour of the honest fight.... There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

Anthony Trollope

Orley Farm

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Topic

Benefits of adversity Adversity Hard work

Author

Anthony Trollope

Source

Orley Farm

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1862 1860s 19th century

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Citation

Trollope, Anthony. Orley Farm. London: Chapman and Hall, 1861-1862.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

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Critics

Speaker

Christopher Hampton

Language

English

Time

1977 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Hampton, Christopher. Quoted in Sunday Times Magazine. 16 Oct. 1977.