Letter

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We do not seek for truth in the abstract... Every man sees what he looks for, and hears what he listens for, and nothing else.

George Bernard Shaw

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Topic

Confirmation bias Cognitive biases Seeking the truth

Author

George Bernard Shaw

Source

Letters of George Bernard Shaw

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1891 1890s 19th century

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Citation

Shaw, George Bernard. Letter to E. C. Chapman. 29 July 1891.

Death is the side of life which is turned away from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Topic

Mystery of death Death

Author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1925 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter to Witold von Hulewicz. 13 Nov. 1925.

Current Citation

Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1910-1926, translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M. D. Herter Norton. W. W. Norton & Company, 1969.

I doubt whether any of these people, with their academic or dogmatic hatred of war, detest it as much as I do. They probably have not seen the bodies rotting on the ground and smelled the stench of decaying human flesh...What separates me from the pacifists is that I hate the Nazis more than I hate war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

On pacifists.

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Topic

Pacifism and nonviolence War

Author

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1943 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Eisenhower, Dwight D. Letter to Arthur Eisenhower. 2 July. 1943.

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.

Being born a slave in a captive society and never experiencing any objective basis for expectation had the effect of preparing me for the progressively traumatic misfortunes that lead so many black men to the prison gate. I was prepared for prison. It required only minor psychic adjustments.

George Jackson

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Topic

Black experience

Author

George Jackson

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Jackson, George. Letter to Greg Armstrong. 10 June 1970.

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.

"Wait" has almost always meant "Never."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Topic

Civil rights Social progress Political progress Progress Politics

Author

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Medium

Open letter Letter

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Original Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.

Current Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.

I've finished that chapel I was painting. The Pope is quite satisfied.

Michelangelo

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Art

Author

Michelangelo

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Understatement

Language

Italian

Time

1512 1510s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Citation

Michelangelo. Letter to his father. Oct. 1512.

There are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Civil disobedience Law Justice Legal theory Moral theory

Author

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Medium

Open letter Letter

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Original Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.

Current Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.

What is more agreeable than one's home?

Cicero

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Home

Author

Cicero

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

46 BC 40s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistles ad Familiares [Letters to Friends]. c. 46 BC, bk. 4, no. 8.

Do get all on fire and be as cross as you please.

Susan B. Anthony

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Topic

Anger in politics Anger Politics Activism

Author

Susan B. Anthony

Source

Letters of Susan B. Anthony

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Advice

Language

English

Time

1856 1850s 19th century

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Citation

Anthony, Susan B. Letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton. 5 June 1856.

We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Topic

Legality and morality

Author

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Medium

Open letter Letter

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Original Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.

Current Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.

The Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Letter from Birmingham Jail

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Topic

Civil rights Political compromise American politics

Author

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source

Letter from Birmingham Jail

Medium

Open letter Letter

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Original Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." 16 Apr. 1963.

Current Citation

King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Letter from a Birmingham City Jail (1963)." A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, edited by James M. Washington. HarperOne, 2003.

The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.

Thomas Jefferson

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Topic

Past generations

Author

Thomas Jefferson

Source

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1813 1810s 19th century

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Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to John W. Eppes. 24 June 1813.

While there's life, there's hope.

Cicero

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Hope springs eternal Hope

Author

Cicero

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

49 BC 40s BC 1st century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistulae ad Atticum [Letters to Atticus]. c. 50, bk. 9, no. 10.

Being totally honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Sigmund Freud

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Topic

Honesty Personal development

Author

Sigmund Freud

Medium

Letter

Statement Type

Advice

Language

German

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

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Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Letter to Wilhelm Fliess. 15 Oct. 1897.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904, translated and edited by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. Harvard University Press, 1985.

If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

Thomas Jefferson

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Topic

Political compromise

Author

Thomas Jefferson

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1789 1780s 18th century

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Jefferson, Thomas. Letter to James Madison. 15 Mar. 1789.

Current Citation

Jefferson, Thomas. "James Madison, March 15, 1789." The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Including the Autobiography, The Declaration of Independence & His Public and Private Letters, edited by Adrienne Koch and William Peden. Modern Library, 1998.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

George Washington

Letters of George Washington

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Topic

Discipline The Army

Author

George Washington

Source

Letters of George Washington

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1757 1750s 18th century

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Citation

Washington, George. "Letter of Instructions to the Captains of the Virginia Regiments." 29 July 1757.

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

St. Jerome

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Topic

Athletes Hard work

Author

St. Jerome

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

374 370s 4th century

Era

Classical antiquity

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Saint Jerome. Letter to Heliodorus. c. 374.

Current Citation

Saint Jerome. The Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2016.

I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion are very different from ours, who live in sierras and mountains, without fixed settlements, and where by divine will I have placed under the sovereignty of the King and Queen our Lords, an Other World, whereby Spain, which was reckoned poor, is become the richest of countries.

Christopher Columbus

Letter to Dona Juana de Torres, October of 1500

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Topic

Colonization of the Americas

Author

Christopher Columbus

Source

Letter to Dona Juana de Torres, October of 1500

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1500 1500s 16th century

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Citation

Columbus, Christopher. Letter to Dona Juana de Torres. Oct. 1500.