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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show to my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiples evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Topic

Civil disobedience Fighting injustice

Speaker

Mahatma Gandhi

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Gandhi, Mahatma. Statement made at his trial. The Great Trial of 1922. 23 Mar. 1922, Ahmadabad, India.

Current Citation

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

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Topic

Meditation Mindfulness

Author

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Krishnamurti, Jiddu. The Second Penguin Krishnamurti Reader, edited by Mary Lutyens. Penguin Books, 1973, pt. 1.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Topic

Pacificism and nonviolence

Speaker

Mahatma Gandhi

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

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.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children

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Topic

Inflection points

Author

Salman Rushdie

Source

Midnight's Children

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1981 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Rushdie, Salman. "Perforated Sheet." Midnight's Children. Jonathan Cape, 1981, bk. 1.

If you're happy in a dream... does that count?

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

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Topic

Happiness Dreams

Speaker

Estha

Author

Arundhati Roy

Source

The God of Small Things

Medium

Novel

Genre

Post-colonial literature

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 11.

And the Air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

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Topic

Elephant in the room

Author

Arundhati Roy

Source

The God of Small Things

Medium

Novel

Genre

Post-colonial literature

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 6.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things they could get used to.

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

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Topic

Adaptability Human nature

Author

Arundhati Roy

Source

The God of Small Things

Medium

Novel

Genre

Post-colonial literature

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 2.

The empire writes back with a vengeance.

Salman Rushdie

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Topic

Post-colonial literature

Author

Salman Rushdie

Source

The Times

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1982 1980s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Rushdie, Salman. "The Empire Writes Back with a Vengeance." Times, 3 July 1982.

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

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Topic

Vulnerability Fear

Author

Arundhati Roy

Source

The God of Small Things

Medium

Novel

Genre

Post-colonial literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 21.

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

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Topic

Hurting others Family

Author

Arundhati Roy

Source

The God of Small Things

Medium

Novel

Genre

Post-colonial literature

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 2.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Salman Rushdie

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Topic

Freedom of speech and expression Offensive speech

Author

Salman Rushdie

Source

Weekend Guardian

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Rushdie, Salman."In Good Faith." The Guardian, 10 Feb. 1990.

But what was there to say? Only that there were tears. Only that Quietness and Emptiness fitted together like stacked spoons. Only that there was a snuffling in the hollows at the base of a lovely throat. Only that a hard honey-colored shoulder had a semicircle of teethmarks on it. Only that they held each other close, long after it was over. Only that what they shared that night was not happiness, but hideous grief. Only that once again they broke the Love Laws. That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.

Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things

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Topic

Grief Forbidden love

Author

Arundhati Roy

Source

The God of Small Things

Medium

Novel

Genre

Post-colonial literature

Language

English

Time

1997 1990s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Random House, 1997, ch. 20.

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

Read this speech at time.com

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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.

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.

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.

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

Authentication Score 0

Citation

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