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Ben-Hur. Directed by William Wyler, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1959.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Lillian Hellman

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Hellman, Lillian. Letter to HUAC. 19 May 1952.

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Picasso, Pablo. "Picasso." Interviewed by Alexander Liberman. Vogue, 1 Nov. 1956.

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Einstein, Albert. The Observer. 15 Jan. 1950.

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Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. George Allen & Unwin, 1954, ch. 2.

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Touch of Evil. Directed by Orson Welles, Universal-International, 1958.

Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.

Hannah Arendt

The Human Condition

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Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. University of Chicago Press, 1958, ch. 6.

I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.

Graham Greene

The Quiet American

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Greene, Graham. The Quiet American. William Heinemann, 1955, ch. 4, sec. 2.

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Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. Ballantine Books, 1953.

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Einstein, Albert. "The Death of a Genius." Interviewed by William Miller. Life Magazine, 2 May 1955.

You are the un-Americans and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

Paul Robeson

Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee, June 12th, 1956.

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Robeson, Paul. Testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee. Un-American Activities Committee meeting. 12 June 1956, Washington, DC, USA.

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Getty, Jean Paul. Quoted in The Observer. 3 Nov. 1957.

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1953, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophische Untersuchungen [Philosophical Investigations]. Suhrkamp, 1953, pt. 1.

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, et. al., edited by P. M. S. Hacker and Joachim Schulte. Wiley Blackwell, 2009, pt. 1.

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Some Like it Hot. Directed by Billy Wilder, The Mirisch Company, 1959.

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. "Second Inaugural Address." 21 Jan. 1957, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Braque, Georges. Le Jour et la nuit: Cahiers 1917-52 [Day and Night. Notebooks 1917-1952]. Gallimard, 1952.

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Braque, Georges. Illustrated Notebooks: 1917-1955, translated by Stanley Appelbaum. Dover Publications, 1971.

Have faith in your Creator, my son, death comes to us all.

Paths of Glory

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Paths of Glory. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Bryna Productions/Harris-Kubrick Pictures Corporation, 1957.

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Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform: from Bryan to FDR. Alfred A. Knopf, 1955, pt. 3.

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Truman, Harry S. Quoted in The Observer. 13 Apr. 1958.