But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea

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Topic

Perseverance Resilience Defeat Human nature

Speaker

Santiago

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Source

The Old Man and the Sea

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United States

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Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

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Another quote by Ernest Hemingway

It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

Ernest Hemingway

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Meaninglessness

Author

Ernest Hemingway
Source
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
Medium
Short story
Language
English
Time
1933 1930s 20th century
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Original Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." Scribner's Magazine, Mar. 1933.

Current Citation

Hemingway, Ernest. "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. Scribner, 1998.

Another quote from the 1950s

Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

Joseph Welch

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Topic
Red Scare Cold War American politics
Speaker
Joseph Welch
Language
English
Time
1954 1950s 20th century
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Citation

Welch, Joseph. Quoted in No Sense of Decency, written by Robert Shogun. Ivan R. Dee, 2009, ch. 10. Originally a speech "Have You No Sense of Decency?" Army-McCarthy Hearings. 9 June 1954, Washington, DC, USA.

Another quote about Human nature

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms, greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind.

Gordon Gekko

Wall Street

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Greed Capitalism Progress Human nature
Speaker
Gordon Gekko
Actor
Michael Douglas
Source
Wall Street
Medium
Film
Genre
Drama (film) Drama
Language
English
Time
1987 1980s 20th century
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Citation

Wall Street. Directed by Oliver Stone, American Entertainment Partners/American Films, 1987.