Success is more dangerous than failure, (the ripples break over a wider coastline).

Graham Greene

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Topic

Success and failure Success Failure

Author

Graham Greene

Source

Ways of Escape

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1980 1980s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Greene, Graham. Ways of Escape. The Bodley Head, 1980, ch. 8, sec. 3.

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What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of man's ideological evolution and the universalism of Western liberal democracy.

Francis Fukuyama

The End of History?

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Topic
Cold War End of history Democracy International politics
Speaker
Francis Fukuyama
Source
The End of History?
Medium
Essay
Genre
Political literature
Statement Type
Bad predictions Prophecies and predictions
Language
English
Time
1989 1980s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Fukuyama, Francis. "The End of History?" National Interest, summer 1989.

Another quote about Success

Success is relative:
It is what we can make of the mess we have
made of things.

T.S. Eliot

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Topic
Success
Speaker
Agatha

Author

T.S. Eliot
Source
The Family Reunion
Medium
Play
Language
English
Time
1939 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Eliot, T. S. The Family Reunion. Performed by Michael Redgrave, Helen Haye, and Catherine Lacey. 1939, Westminster Theatre, London, England, UK, pt. 2, sc. 3.

Another quote of the following type Metaphor, analogy and simile

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Topic
Freedom Liberation The human condition

Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Source
The Social Contract
Genre
Political literature Philosophical literature
Statement Type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Language
French
Time
1762 1760s 18th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Du contrat social ou Principes du droit politique [On the Social Contract or Principles of Political Law]. Amsterdam: Marc Michel Rey, 1762, bk. 1, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Of the Social Contract." Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings, translated by Quintin Hoare. Penguin Classics, 2012, bk. 1, ch. 1.