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You have to take chances for peace, just as you must take chances in war... The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.

John Foster Dulles

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Dulles, John Foster. "How Dulles Averted War: Three Times, New Disclosures Show, He Brought U.S. Back from the Brink." Interviewed by James Shepley. Life Magazine, 16 Jan. 1956.

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The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but because of the excuses it has provided us for our failures.

J. William Fulbright

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Fulbright, James William. "Sayings of the Year." Observer, 21 Dec. 1958.

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Long experience has taught me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.

Anthony Eden

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Eden, Anthony. Speech at Lord Mayor's guildhall banquet. Lord Mayor's Guildhall Banquet. c. 1956, London, England, UK.

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For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Ethel Barrymore

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Barrymore, Ethyl. Quoted in The Theatre in the Fifties, written by George Jean Nathan. Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.

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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

Harold Macmillan

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MacMillan, Harold. Speech in Strasbourg. 16 Aug. 1950, Strasbourg, France.

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When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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Krutch, Joseph Wood. "Reverence for Life: The Vandal and the Sportsman." The Great Chain of Life. Houghton Mifflin, 1956.

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What kind of a man are you? You have sat here and voted "guilty" with everyone else because there are some baseball tickets burning a hole in your pocket?

12 Angry Men

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12 Angry Men. Directed by Sidney Lumet, Orion-Nova Productions and Orion-Nova Pictures, 1957.

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One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash, 1929. Houghton Mifflin, 1955, ch. 1, sect. 2.

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People who are always praising the past
And especially the times of faith as best
Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages
And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.

Stevie Smith

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Smith, Stevie. "The Past." Not Waving but Drowning. Andre Deutsch, 1957, I. 1.

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I will write until my knuckles are worn and my brain bewildered, but I will write on and on.

William Styron

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Styron, William. Letter to William C. Styron Sr. 1 June 1951.

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I must say it's pretty dreary living in the American Age-unless you're an American, of course.

John Osborne

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Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger. 1956, Royal Court Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1.

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Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger. Faber & Faber, 2015, act 1.

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Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go-and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

Wernher von Braun

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Von Braun, Werner. "Space: Reach for the Stars." Time, 17 Feb. 1958.

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We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we…remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment unpopular.

Edward R. Murrow

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Murrow, Edward R. See It Now. CBS, 9 Mar. 1954.

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides!

Artur Schnabel

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Schnabel, Artur. Quoted in Chicago Daily News. 11 June 1958.

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It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.

Francis Crick

Proposing the double helix as the structure of DNA.

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Crick, Francis and James D. Watson. "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid." Nature, 25 Apr. 1953.

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You're a good looking boy, you have big broad shoulders, but he is a man. It takes more than big broad shoulders to make a man, Harvey, and you have a long way to go.

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High Noon. Directed by Fred Zinnemann. Stanley Kramer Productions, 1952.

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Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Niebuhr, Reinhold. The Irony of American History. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952, ch. 3.

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We believe, and I think properly, that when the men who met in 1787 to make a Constitution made the best political document ever made, they did so very largely because they were great compromisers.

Learned Hand

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Hand, Learned. "Morals in Public Life." Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. 28 June 1951, Washington, DC, USA. Testimony.

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Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Alan Watts

The Way of Zen

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Watts, Alan. The Way of Zen. Vintage Books, 1957.

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