The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

On Heroes

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Great man theory of history History

Author

Thomas Carlyle

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On Heroes

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English

Time

1840 1840s 19th century

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Philosopher Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Carlyle, Thomas. "The Hero as Divinity." 5 May 1840, London, England, UK. Lecture.

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Burke said there were three estates in parliament; but, in the reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

Thomas Carlyle

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic

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Media Journalism

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Thomas Carlyle
Source
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic
Language
English
Time
1840 1840s 19th century
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Carlyle, Thomas. "The Hero as Man of Letters." 19 May 1840, London, England, UK. Lecture.

Another quote from the 1840s

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths.

Ada Lovelace

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Artificial intelligence Computers

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Ada Lovelace
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Scientific literature
Language
English
Time
1843 1840s 19th century
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King, Augusta Ada. Scientific Memoirs: Selected from the Transactions of Foreign Academies of science and Learned Societies and from Foreign Journals. Vol. 3, London: R. and J. E. Taylor, 1843.

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John F. Kennedy. Remember him? He fucked Marilyn Monroe. Matter of fact, him and his brother Bobby fucked Marilyn Monroe. And history doesn’t talk about that much. You know why history doesn’t talk about that much? Because those two pages in history are stuck together.

Dave Chappelle

Killin' Them Softly

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History
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Dave Chappelle
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Killin' Them Softly
Medium
Comedy special
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Comedy (stand up)
Statement Type
Joke
Language
English
Time
2000 2000s 21st century
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Citation

Chappelle, Dave. Dave Chappelle: Killin' Them Softly. HBO, 26 July 2000.