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

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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

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Writer

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India Asia

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Citation

Rushdie, Salman. "Keynote Address." Commencement. 19 May 2015, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

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She assured them, too, of her firm belief, that, at some brighter period, when the world should have grown ripe for it, in Heaven's own time, a new truth would be revealed, in order to establish the whole relation between man and woman on a surer ground of mutual happiness.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Source
The Scarlet Letter
Medium
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Language
English
Time
1850 1850s 19th century
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Original Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter: A Romance. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850, ch. 24.

Current Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, edited by Brian Harding. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 24.