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As the traveller who has been once from home is wiser than he who has never left his own door step, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinise more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

Margaret Mead

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Topic

Effects of travel

Author

Margaret Mead

Source

Coming of Age in Samoa

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation. William Morrow and Co., 1928, introduction.

Current Citation

Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation. Mariner Books Classics, 2001, introduction.

He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as the wise men do; and so should every man understand him, and the judgement of the wise man allow him.

Roger Ascham

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Topic

Writing

Author

Roger Ascham

Source

Toxophilus

Statement Type

Writing advice

Language

English

Time

1545 1540s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Citation

Ascham, Roger. "To All Gentlemen and Yeoman of England." Toxophilus. London: Murray, 1545.

The theory of probabilities is at bottom only common sense reduced to calculus.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

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Topic

Probability Statistics Mathematics

Author

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Source

Theorie Analytique des Probabilites

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

French

Time

1814 1810s 19th century

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Citation

Laplace, Pierre-Simon. Theorie Analytique des Probabilities [Analytic Theory of Probability]. Paris: Madame Va Courcier, 1812.

South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, "kiss-kiss" and "bang-bang."

Hortense Powdermaker

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Topic

Hollywood American culture

Author

Hortense Powdermaker

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Powdermaker, Hortense. Hollywood, the Dream Factory: An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers. Little, Brown and Company, 1950, introduction.

After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

A.S.W. Rosenbach

A Book Hunter's Holiday

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Topic

Tsundoku Books

Author

A.S.W. Rosenbach

Source

A Book Hunter's Holiday

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Rosenbach, A. S. W. A Book Hunter's Holiday. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1936.

No set of legal institutions or prescriptions exists apart from the narratives that locate it and give it meaning. For every constitution, there is an epic, for each decalogue a scripture. Once understood in the context of the narratives that give it meaning, law becomes not merely a system of rules to be observed, but a world in which we live.

Robert M. Cover

Nomos and Narrative

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Topic

Stories Law

Author

Robert M. Cover

Source

Nomos and Narrative Harvard Law Review

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1983 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Cover, Robert M. "Foreword: Nomos and Narrative." Harvard Law Review, Nov. 1983. Originally a foreword to the Supreme Court 1982 term.

Philosophy is nothing but discretion.

Richard Milward

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Topic

Philosophy Discretion Wisdom

Speaker

John Selden

Author

Richard Milward

Source

Table Talk

Language

English

Time

1689 1680s 17th century

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Citation

Selden, John. Table-talk, being discourses of John Seldon, Esq. London: Alex Murray and Sons, 1689.

O you who hear within these scattered verses
The sound of sighs with which I fed my heart
In my first errant youthful days when I
In part was not the man I am today.

Petrarch

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Topic

Learning from the past Looking back

Author

Petrarch

Medium

Poem

Language

Italian

Time

1352 1350s 14th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Petrarch. Rerum vulgarium fragmenta. c. 1352.

Current Citation

Petrarch. "Selections from the Canzoniere." Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works. Oxford University Press, 1999.

Whether ours shall continue to be a Government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

Archibald Cox

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Topic

Watergate American politics

Author

Archibald Cox

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Citation

Cox, Archibald. Statement after being dismissed by President Richard Nixon. 20 Oct. 1973, Washington, DC, USA.

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

James George Frazer

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Topic

Religion

Author

James George Frazer

Source

The Golden Bough

Genre

Religious literature

Statement Type

Definition

Language

English

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough. London: The Macmillan Company, 1922, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Frazer, James George. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Oxford University Press, 1998, ch. 4.