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The illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Clement Attlee

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On Russian communism.

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Attlee, Clement. Speech at Aarhus University. 11 Apr. 1956, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.

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The test of civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Pearl S. Buck

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Buck, Pearl S. My Several Worlds. John Day Company, 1954.

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The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Joseph Schumpeter

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Schumpeter, Joseph Alois. History of Economic Analysis. Oxford University Press, 1954, pt. 1, ch. 4, note 10.

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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

Karl Popper

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Popper, Karl. "Philosophy of Science: A Personal Report." British Philosophy in the Mid-Century: A Cambridge Symposium, edited by C. A. Mace. Cambridge University Press, 1957.

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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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Wright, Frank Lloyd. "What Every Budding Architect Should Know." The New York Times Magazine, 4 Oct. 1953.

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What we are doing in Korea is this: we are trying to prevent a third world war.

Harry Truman

Explaining why he had fired General Douglas MacArthur.

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Truman, Harry S. "Report to the American People on Korea." 11 Apr. 1951, Washington, DC, USA.

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The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. "Chance for Peace." American Society for Newspaper Editors meeting. 16 Apr. 1953, Washington, DC, USA.

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Let us pray to God... The bastard! He doesn't exist!

Samuel Beckett

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Beckett, Samuel. Fin de partie. Directed by Roger Blin. Performed by Roger Blin, Jean Martin, Georges Adet, and Christine Tsingos. 3 Apr. 1957, Royal Court Theatre, London, England, UK.

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When in doubt have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.

Raymond Chandler

Buy The Simple Art of Murder Buy The Simple Art of Murder

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Chandler, Raymond. "The Simple Art of Murder." Saturday Review of Literature, 15 Apr. 1950, introduction.

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When the grim reaper comes to get me, he'll have to give me a few extra hours to revise my last words.

Flannery O'Connor

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O'Connor, Flannery. Letter to Catharine Carver. 27 Mar. 1959.

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Women are really much nicer than men:
No wonder we like them.

Kingsley Amis

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Amis, Kingsley. "A Bookshop Idyll." A Case of Samples: Poems 1946–1956. Gollancz, 1956.

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I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

William Faulkner

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Faulkner, William. "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12." Interviewed by Jean Stein. Paris Review, Spring 1956.

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No nation can longer be a fortress, lone and strong and safe. And any people, seeking such shelter for themselves, can now build only their own prison.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Second Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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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Progress may have been all right once, but it went on too long.

Ogden Nash

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Nash, Ogden. "Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation is Beater Than Yours." The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 1959.

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There is more difference within the sexes than between them.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Mother and Son

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Compton-Burnett, Ivy. Mother and Son. Victor Gollancz/Julian Messner, 1955, ch. 10.

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A great deal of my poetry has been written while I have been out walking.

Wallace Stevens

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Stevens, Wallace. Letter to Irita Van Doren. 20 Sept. 1954.

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The Marshall Plan will go down in history as one of America's greatest contributions to the peace of the world.

Harry Truman

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Truman, Harry S. Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: 1946-52, Years of Trial and Hope. Vol. 2, Doubleday & Company, 1955, ch. 8.

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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the sufferings and joys of others.

Andre Gide

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Gide, Andre. "Portraits and Aphorisms: An Unprejudiced Mind." Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality, edited by Justin O'Brien. Secker & Warburg/Meridian Books, 1959.

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A trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

Wilson Mizner

On Hollywood.

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Mizner, Wilson. Quoted in The Legendary Mizners, written by Alva Johnston. Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953, ch. 4.

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Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.

Iris Murdoch

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Murdoch, Iris. "The Sublime and the Good." Chicago Review, vol. 13, no. 3, autumn 1959.

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