Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure-wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.

Sinclair Lewis

Main Street

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Topic

Man and nature The human condition

Speaker

Guy Pollock

Author

Sinclair Lewis

Source

Main Street

Medium

Novel

Genre

Satire

Language

English

Time

1920 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Nobel laureate Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Original Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Main Street. Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920, ch. 13.

Current Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. "Main Street." Sinclair Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt, edited by John Hersey. Library of America, 1992, ch. 13.

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What is Love?... It is the morning and the evening star.

Sinclair Lewis

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Nature of love Love

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Sinclair Lewis
Source
Elmer Gantry
Medium
Novel
Genre
Satire
Statement Type
Definition
Language
English
Time
1927 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Harcourt Trade Publishers, 1927, ch. 20.

Current Citation

Lewis, Sinclair. Elmer Gantry. Signet, 2007, ch. 20.

Another quote from the 1920s

It will need more than the Nineteenth Amendment to convince me that there are no differences between men and women, or that legislation cannot take those differences into account.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Adkins v. Children's Hospital

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Women's equality Men and women

Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Source
Adkins v. Children's Hospital
Medium
Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion
Genre
Legal writing
Language
English
Time
1923 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Dissenting Opinion. Adkins v. Children's Hospital. United States Reports, vol. 261, 9 Apr. 1923, pp. 567-571. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/250/616/.

Another quote about The human condition

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Nature of man The human condition

Author

Friedrich Nietzsche
Source
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
German
Time
1883 1880s 19th century
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Original Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Also sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen [Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None]. Chemnitz: Ernst Schmeitzner, 1883, pt. 1.

Current Citation

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Nietzsche: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, edited by Robert Pippin, translated by Adrian Del Caro. Cambridge University Press, 2006, pt. 1.

Another quote from 1920

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

William Ralph Inge

The Idea of Progress

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Topic
Animal cruelty Man and animals
Speaker
William Ralph Inge
Source
The Idea of Progress
Medium
Lecture
Language
English
Time
1920 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Inge, William Ralph. "The Idea of Progress." Romanes Lecture. 27 May 1920, The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, England, UK. Lecture.