Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.

Louis Brandeis

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Topic

Transparency in government

Author

Louis Brandeis

Source

What Publicity Can Do Harper's Magazine

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1913 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Supreme Court Justice Judge Lawyer

From

United States

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Citation

Brandeis, Louis. "What Publicity Can Do." Harper's Weekly, 20 Dec. 1913.

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If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success with it.

Sigmund Freud

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Topic
Effects of childhood Mothers and sons

Author

Sigmund Freud
Genre
Psychological literature
Language
German
Time
1917 1910s 20th century
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Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. "Eine Kindheitserinnerung aus 'Dichtung und Wahrheit [A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung und Warheit [Poetry and Truth].'" Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften [Journal of the Application of Psychoanalysis to the Humanities]. Vol. 5, 1917, pp. 49–57.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. "A Childhood Recollection from 'Dichtung Und Wahrheit.'" The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works, translated by James Strachey. Vol. 17, Vintage, 2001.

Another quote from 1913

It's what we learn after we think we know it all that counts.

Frank McKinney Hubbard

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Topic
Life lessons Personal growth

Author

Frank McKinney Hubbard
Language
English
Time
1913 1910s 20th century
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Citation

Hubbard, Frank McKinney. "Abe Martin Says." The Fairmount News, c. 1913.