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Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land.

Mao Zedong

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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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Faith is a torment. It is like loving someone who is out there in the darkness but never appears, no matter how loudly you call.

The Seventh Seal

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Det sjunde inseglet [The Seventh Seal]. Directed by Ingmar Bergman, Svensk Filmindustri, 1957.

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If equal affection cannot be
let the more loving one be me.

W.H. Auden

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Auden, W. H. "The More Loving One." Homage to Clio. ‎Faber and Faber/Random House, 1960.

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Love is nothing but lust and cheating and lies.

The Seventh Seal

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Det sjunde inseglet [The Seventh Seal]. Directed by Ingmar Bergman, Svensk Filmindustri, 1957.

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If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Winston Churchill

The Second World War

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Churchill, Winston. Note to his personal secretary John Colville. 21 June 1941.

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A policeman's job is only easy in a police state. That's the whole point, Captain. Who's the boss, the cop or the law?

Touch of Evil

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

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To wander separately? But, only one is a wanderer; two together are always going somewhere.

Vertigo

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Vertigo. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, 1958.

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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Alan Watts

The Way of Zen

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

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No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

Edward R. Murrow

On Joseph McCarthy.

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Murrow, Edward R. Private comments to staff prior to broadcast of See It Now. 9 Mar. 1954, New York City, NY, USA.

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The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.

Hannah Arendt

The Origins of Totalinarianism

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

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Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it... It leaves everything as it is.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations

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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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All women are stimulated by the news that any wife has left any husband.

Anthony Powell

The Acceptance World

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Powell, Anthony. A Dance to the Music of Time: The Acceptance World. Vol. 3, London: Heinemann, 1955, ch. 4.

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Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Charlie Parker

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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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Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

Boris Pasternak

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Pasternak, Boris. До́ктор Жива́го [Dr. Zhivago]. Feltrinelli, 1957, pt. 2, ch. 9, sect. 14.

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Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. Vintage International, 2011, pt. 2, ch. 9, sect. 14.

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You're on earth, there's no cure for that!

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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