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McCarthy, Joseph. "Enemies from Within." Republican's Women's Club meeting. 9 Feb. 1950, Wheeling, WV, USA. Speech.

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Thomas, Dylan. "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night." Botteghe Oscure, 1951.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Facing the Challenge of a New Age." First Annual Institute on Nonviolence and Social Change meeting. 3 Dec. 1956, Montgomery, AL, USA.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. Harper & Brothers, 1958, ch. 11.

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Zedong, Mao. "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People." Eleventh Session (Enlarged) of the Supreme State Conference. 27 Feb. 1957, Beijing, China.

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Camus, Albert. La Chute [The Fall]. Editions Gallimard, 1956.

I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?"

Alan Turing

Computing Machinery and Intelligence

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Turing, Alan. "Computing Machinery and Intelligence." Mind. Oxford University Press, 1950.

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MacArthur, Douglas. Address to a Joint Meeting of Congress. House of Representatives. 19 Apr. 1951, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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MacArthur, Douglas. Keynote address at the Republican National Convention. Republican National Convention. 7 July 1952, International Amphitheatre, Chicago, IL, USA.

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Camus, Albert. "The Sea Close By." Lyrical and Critical Essays. Vintage Books, 1970. Originally published in L'Eté [Summer]. Gallimard, 1954.

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Karl Barth

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Barth, Karl. "The Righteousness of God." Das Wort Gottes und die Theologie [The Word of God and Theology]. Mchn., Kaiser, 1924. Originally a lecture called "The Righteousness of God" delivered 16 Jan. 1916 in City Church, Aarau, Switzerland.

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Lerner, Alan Jay. "I Could Have Danced All Night." My Fair Lady. Composed by Frederick Loewe. 15 Mar. 1956, Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, New York, USA.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Gaston Bachelard

The Poetics of Space

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Bachelard, Gaston. La Poetique de l'Espace [The Poetics of Space]. Presses Universitaires de France, 1948, ch. 1.

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Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space, translated by Maria Jolas. Penguin Classics, 2014, ch. 1.

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

Joseph Welch

To Joseph McCarthy, on June 9th, 1954, defending the US Army against allegations of subversive activities.

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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.

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Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. Viking Press, 1957, pt. 1.

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De Gaulle, Charles. "L'Appel, 1940-1942." Mémoires de Guerre [War Memories]. c. 1954, ch. 1.

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De Gaulle, Charles. The Complete War Memoirs of Charles De Gaulle. Carroll & Graf Pub, 1998, vol. 1, ch. 1.

If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Charlie Parker

Hear Me Talkin' to Ya

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Parker, Charlie. Quoted in Hear Me Talkin' to Ya. Written by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff. Rinehart & Company, 1955.

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Plath, Sylvia. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962, edited by Karen V Kukil. Anchor Books, 2000. Originally a journal entry, 29 Mar. 1951.

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Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Schocken Books, 1951, pt. 3, ch. 13.

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Heisenberg, Werner. "An Old and a New Tradition." Gifford Lectures. Winter term 1955-1956, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, UK.