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

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United States

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.

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Where is the wisdom we have lost in
knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in
information?

T.S. Eliot

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Topic
Wisdom Knowledge Information
Speaker
Chorus

Author

T.S. Eliot
Source
The Rock
Medium
Play
Language
English
Time
1934 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Eliot, T. S. The Rock. 1934, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, England, UK, pt. 1.

Another quote from the 1930s

I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am to-night.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night

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Topic
Being in love
Speaker
Nicole Diver

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Source
Tender is the Night
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1934 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Tender is the Night." Scribner's Magazine, Jan. 1934 - Apr. 1934.

Current Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Scribners, 1995, ch. 18.

Another quote about Success

There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there–good for you! But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

Elizabeth Warren

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Topic
Success in business Success American politics
Speaker
Elizabeth Warren
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
2011 2010s 21st century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Warren, Elizabeth. Remarks on campaign trail. Aug. 2011, Andover, MA, USA.

Another quote from 1939

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest...of his head.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Topic
Politics
Speaker
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1939 1930s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. Radio address to the New York Herald Tribune Forum. 26 Oct. 1939, Washington, DC, USA.