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Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information war poster (1941–1945). "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase from the United States Declaration of Independence. [1]
The Latin cogito, ergo sum, usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am", [a] is the "first principle" of René Descartes's philosophy. He originally published it in French as je pense, donc je suis in his 1637 Discourse on the Method, so as to reach a wider audience than Latin would have allowed. [1]
[10] Love's quote is reflective of the popular sentiment felt for Roosevelt's dynamic, confident, and inspiring oratory. Close aide Raymond Moley was responsible for crafting the speech, as he did many of Roosevelt's speeches. [10] The idea of likening Roosevelt's coming task to commanding a war effort originated from Moley. [11]
When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the oak, then you may expect a soak; When you have seen one, you have seen them all; What is learnt in the cradle lasts to the tombs; What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over; Where there is a will there is a way
The Massachusetts Constitution, chiefly authored by John Adams in 1780, contains in its Declaration of Rights the wording: "All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and ...
Some say that Alabama holds the title on a technicality—the city was officially founded over a decade before the Big Easy. Regardless of which city held the event, it’s known that the ...
So now I do not know what virtue is; perhaps you knew before you contacted me, but now you are certainly like one who does not know. (G. M. A. Grube translation) Here, Socrates aims at the change of Meno's opinion, who was a firm believer in his own opinion and whose claim to knowledge Socrates had disproved.
Brooke Shields recalls her Calvin Klein ads from the 1980s and reflects on the controversy surrounding the jeans ad campaign she starred in at 15 years old.