1950s

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Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

Theodor Adorno

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Topic

Life under capitalism Capitalism

Author

Theodor Adorno

Source

The Meaning of Working Through the Past

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Adorno, Theodor. Was bedeutet Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit [The Meaning of Working Through the Past]. 1959.

If they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

Adlai Stevenson

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Topic

Democrats and Republicans American politics

Speaker

Adlai Stevenson

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Stevenson, Adlai. Campaign statement. 10 Sept. 1952, Fresno, CA, USA.

I preach that there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them there's only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Flannery O'Connor

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Topic

Nature of truth Truth

Speaker

Hazel Motes

Author

Flannery O'Connor

Source

Wise Blood

Medium

Novel

Genre

Southern Gothic

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

O'Connor, Flannery. Wise Blood. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1952, ch. 10.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

Giuseppe di Lampedusa

The Leopard

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Topic

The only constant is change Status quo Change

Speaker

Tancredi

Author

Giuseppe di Lampedusa

Source

The Leopard

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

Italian

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi. Il Gattopard [The Leopard]. Feltrinelli, 1958, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Lampedusa, Giuseppe. The Leopard, translated by Archibald Colquhoun. Pantheon, 2007, ch. 1.

It's absurd to bring children into this world and think they'll be better off than we are.

Wild Strawberries

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Topic

Having children

Speaker

Dr. Evald Borg

Actor

Gunnar Björnstrand

Source

Wild Strawberries

Medium

Film

Genre

Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1957 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Smultronstället [Wild Strawberries]. Directed by Ingmar Bergman, Svensk Filmindustri, 1957.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Aldous Huxley

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Topic

Taking things for granted Human nature

Author

Aldous Huxley

Source

Variations on a Philosopher Themes and Variations

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Huxley, Aldous. "Variations on a Philosopher." Themes and Variations. Chatto & Windus/Harper & Brothers, 1950.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Peter De Vries

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Topic

Gluttony Food Coping mechanisms

Speaker

Mrs. Thicknesse

Author

Peter De Vries

Source

Comfort Me With Apples

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

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Citation

De Vries, Peter. Comfort Me with Apples. Little, Brown & Company, 1956.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic, because in arithmetic there is knowledge, but in theology there is only opinion.

Bertrand Russell

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Topic

Religious persecution

Author

Bertrand Russell

Source

An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish Unpopular Essays

Medium

Essay

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Russell, Bertrand. "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish." Unpopular Essays. George Allen & Unwin, 1950.

Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.

Christopher Fry

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Topic

Poetry

Speaker

Christopher Fry

Source

Time Magazine

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Fry, Christopher. Time Magazine. 3 Apr. 1950.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Felix Frankfurter

United States v. Rabinowitz

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Topic

Legal history

Author

Felix Frankfurter

Source

United States v. Rabinowitz

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Dissenting opinion Legal writing

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Frankfurter, Felix. Dissenting Opinion. United States v. Rabinowitz. United States Reports, vol. 339, 20 Feb. 1950, pp. 68-86. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/339/56/.

While reflecting an indisputable aspect of reality, it can falsify the actual truth in a most misleading way.

Carl Jung

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Topic

The law of averages

Author

Carl Jung

Source

The Undiscovered Self

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jung, Carl. Gegenwart und Zukunft [The Undiscovered Self], translated by R. F. C. Hull. Routledge & Kegen Paul, 1958.

South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, "kiss-kiss" and "bang-bang."

Hortense Powdermaker

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Topic

Hollywood American culture

Author

Hortense Powdermaker

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Powdermaker, Hortense. Hollywood, the Dream Factory: An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers. Little, Brown and Company, 1950, introduction.

One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals... This is the belief that somewhere, in the past or in the future, in divine revelation or in the mind of an individual thinker, in the pronouncements of history or science, or in the simple heart of an uncorrupted good man, there is a final solution.

Isaiah Berlin

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Topic

Utopianism

Speaker

Isaiah Berlin

Source

Two Concepts of Liberty

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Berlin, Isaiah. "Two Concepts of Liberty." 31 Oct. 1958, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK. Lecture.

Current Citation

Berlin, Isaiah. "Two Concepts of Liberty." Liberty: Incorporating Four Essays on Liberty, edited by Henry Hardy. Oxford University Press, 2002.

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all costs, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

Albert Camus

The Fall

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Topic

Ego Self-centeredness

Author

Albert Camus

Source

The Fall

Medium

Novel

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

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

Good food is always a trouble and its preparation should be regarded as a labour of love.

Elizabeth David

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Topic

Cooking Food

Author

Elizabeth David

Medium

Cookbook

Language

English

Time

1951 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

David, Elizabeth. French Country Cooking. John Lehmann, 1951, introduction.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

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Topic

Purpose of art Art

Author

Thomas Merton

Source

No Man Is an Island

Genre

Religious literature

Language

English

Time

1955 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Merton, Thomas. No Man Is an Island. Clonmore & Reynolds/Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955.

Never lose your temper with the Press or the public is a major rule of political life.

Christabel Pankhurst

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Topic

Politics

Author

Christabel Pankhurst

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1959 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Pankhurst, Christabel. Unshackled: The Story of how We Won the Vote. Hutchinson, 1959, ch. 5.

Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years.

Tallulah Bankhead

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Topic

Cocaine Drugs

Author

Tallulah Bankhead

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bankhead, Tallulah. Tallulah: My Autobiography. Harper & Bros./Victor Gollancz, 1952, ch. 4.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Boris Pasternak

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Topic

Overcoming obstacles Overcoming adversity Failure

Speaker

Yuri Andreievich Zhivago

Author

Boris Pasternak

Source

Doctor Zhivago (novel)

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Pasternak, Boris. До́ктор Жива́го [Dr. Zhivago]. Feltrinelli, pt. 2, ch. 13, sect. 12.

Current Citation

Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Vintage International, 2011, pt. 2, ch. 13, sect. 12.

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Learned Hand

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Topic

Decisions and choices

Speaker

Learned Hand

Source

Speeches of Learned Hand

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hand, Learned. "At Forescore." Harvard University Annual Dinner. 18 Jan. 1952, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.