Autobiography and memoir

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When we are no longer able to change a situation... We are challenged to change ourselves.

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

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Topic

Powerlessness Changing oneself Personal growth

Author

Viktor Frankl

Source

Man's Search for Meaning

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

German

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Original Citation

Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

Current Citation

Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. It cannot lead, it can only serve; and it is not fastidious in its choice of a leader.

Albert Einstein

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Topic

Intelligence Judgment

Author

Albert Einstein

Source

The Goal of Human Existence

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

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Einstein, Albert. "The Goal of Human Existence." NBC Broadcast for the United Jewish Appeal. 11 Apr. 1943.

Current Citation

Einstein, Albert. "The Goal of Human Existence." Out of My Later Years. Philosophical Library, 2015, ch. 51.

A company will get nowhere if all of the thinking is left to management.

Akio Morita

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Running a business Management Business

Author

Akio Morita

Source

Made in Japan

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

Japanese

Time

1986 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Morita, Akio and Edwin M. Reingold and Mitsuko Simomura. Made in Japan: Akio Morita and Sony. ‎E. P. Dutton, 1986.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant, was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.

Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

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Topic

American Presidency American decline

Author

Henry Adams

Source

The Education of Henry Adams

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 17.

Current Citation

Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 17.

There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians.

Robert Graves

Goodbye to All That

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Patriotism War

Author

Robert Graves

Source

Goodbye to All That

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

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Citation

Graves, Robert. Good-Bye to All That. Jonathan Cape, 1929.

All things are artificiall, for nature is the Art of God.

Sir Thomas Browne

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Topic

Nature Creation

Author

Sir Thomas Browne

Source

Religio Medici

Genre

Autobiography and memoir Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1643 1640s 17th century

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Original Citation

Browne, Thomas, Sir. Religio Medici. London, 1643, pt. 1, sect. 16.

Current Citation

Browne, Thomas, Sir. "Religio Medici (1643)." Thomas Browne: Selected Writings, edited by Kevin Killeen. Oxford University Press, 2018, pt. 1, sect. 16.

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

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Topic

Crying Courage Suffering

Author

Viktor Frankl

Source

Man's Search for Meaning

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

German

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Original Citation

Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

Current Citation

Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

It is by crawling on the face of it that one learns a country.

Evelyn Waugh

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Topic

Travel

Author

Evelyn Waugh

Source

Ninety-two Days

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1934 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Waugh, Evelyn. Ninety-two Days. Duckworth, 1934, ch. 8.

The abbreviation of time, and the failure of hope, will always tinge with a browner shade the evening of life.

Edward Gibbon

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Topic

Old age Passage of time Time

Author

Edward Gibbon

Source

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1794 1790s 18th century

Era

Age of Enlightenment

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Original Citation

Gibbon, Edward. "Memoirs of My Life and Writings." Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, edited by John Sheffield. Vol. 1, London: A Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. David, 1796.

Current Citation

Gibbon, Edward. Memoirs of My Life, edited by Betty Radice. Penguin, 1984.

Rob him of his illusions, and man would perish of very weariness and despair.

Anatole France

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Topic

Lies Delusion Human nature

Author

Anatole France

Source

The Bloom of Life

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

French

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

France, Anatole. La Vie en Fleur [The Bloom of Life]. Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1923, epilogue.

My life has been a quest for knowledge and understanding, and I am nowhere near having achieved that. And it doesn’t bother me in the least.

Alex Trebek

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Topic

Seeking Curiosity Knowledge Wisdom

Author

Alex Trebek

Source

The Answer Is…

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

2020 2020s 21st century

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Citation

Trebek, Alex. The Answer Is... Simon & Schuster, 2020.

It was the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.

Leon Trotsky

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Topic

Stalin Soviet Union

Author

Leon Trotsky

Source

My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

Russian

Time

1930 1930s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Trotsky, Leon. Моя Жизнь [My Life]. Charles Scribner's Sons/Thornton Butterworth, 1930, ch. 40.

The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

Harry Truman

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Topic

Marshall Plan World War II

Author

Harry Truman

Source

Years of Trial and Hope

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Truman, Harry S. Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: 1946-52, Years of Trial and Hope. Vol. 2, Doubleday & Company, 1955, ch. 8.

The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.

Wole Soyinka

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Topic

Political courage Tyranny

Author

Wole Soyinka

Source

The Man Died: Prison Notes

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1972 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Soyinka, Wole. "A Letter to Compatriots." The Man Died: Prison Notes. Harper & Row/Rex Collings Limited, 1972.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

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Topic

Political theory Politics

Author

Henry Adams

Source

The Education of Henry Adams

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1907 1900s 20th century

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Original Citation

Adams, Henry. The Education of Henry Adams. 1907, ch. 12.

Current Citation

Adams, Henry. "The Education of Henry Adams." Henry Adams: Democracy, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams, edited by Ernest Samuels and Jayne Samuels. Library of America, 1983, ch. 12.

Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

Maxine Hong Kingston

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Topic

Immigration Assimilation

Author

Maxine Hong Kingston

Source

The Woman Warrior

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1976 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Kingston, Maxine Hong. "No Name Woman." The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. Alfred A. Knopf, 1976.

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, and infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

Molly Haskell

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Topic

Single women Single life Patriarchy

Author

Molly Haskell

Source

Love and Other Infectious Diseases

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Haskell, Molly. Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir. William Morrow, 1990.

A good plan violenty executed now is better than a perfect plan next week.

George S. Patton

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Topic

Military strategy War

Author

George S. Patton

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1947 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Patton, George Smith. War As I Knew It. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1947, pt. 3.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the “why” for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any “how.”

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

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Topic

Purpose of life Meaning of life

Author

Viktor Frankl

Source

Man's Search for Meaning

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

German

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

Current Citation

Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

John Updike

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Topic

Comedy Tragedy

Author

John Updike

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Updike, John. Self-Consciousness: Memoirs. Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, ch. 6.