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Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

Patton

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Topic

Dying for one's country War

Speaker

General George S. Patton

Actor

George C. Scott

Source

Patton

Medium

Film

Genre

Biography (film) War (film) Biography War

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Patton. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. 20th Century Fox, 1969.

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

Katherine Anne Porter

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Topic

Miracles

Author

Katherine Anne Porter

Source

Ship of Fools

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Porter, Katherine Anne. Ship of Fools. Little, Brown and Company, 1962, pt. 3.

You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power-he's free again.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In the First Circle

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Topic

Nothing to lose Freedom Oppression Desperation Liberation

Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Source

In the First Circle

Medium

Novel

Genre

Political literature

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

Russian

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander. В круге первом [In the First Circle]. Collins & Harvill Press/‎Harper & Row, 1968, ch. 17.

I am for an art that tells you the time of day, or where such and such a street is. I am for an art that helps old ladies across the street.

Claes Oldenburg

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Topic

Purpose of art Art

Author

Claes Oldenburg

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Oldenburg, Claes. Statement for exhibition catalogue called Environments, Situations, Spaces. c. 1961, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York City, NY, USA.

In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel; the sea is both friend and enemy; and the seamanship consists in using the resources of a traditional manner of behavior in order to make a friend of every hostile occasion.

Michael Oakeshott

Political Education

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Topic

Political theory Politics

Author

Michael Oakeshott

Source

Political Education

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Oakeshott, Michael. "Political Education." Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays. Methuen, 1962.

The world is gradually becoming a place where I do not care to be any more.

John Berryman

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Topic

Loss

Author

John Berryman

Language

English

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Berryman, John. His Toy, His Dream, His Rest. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968, poem no. 149.

If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in and drop out.

Timothy Leary

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Topic

Counterculture Resisting authority

Speaker

Timothy Leary

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Leary, Timothy. The Politics of Ecstasy. Ronin Publishing, 1990, ch. 21. Originally stated during a lecture, June 1966.

The words "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," which I saw on an Italian movie poster, are perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies.

Pauline Kael

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Topic

Movies

Author

Pauline Kael

Language

English

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Kael, Pauline. Quoted in "Pauline Kael Is Still At The Movies." Written by Jacob Siskind. The Montreal Gazette, 29 May 1968.

I left my heart in San Francisco
High on a hill it calls to me.
To be where little cable cars climb half-way to
the stars,
The morning fog may chill the air-
I don't care!

Tony Bennett

I Left My Heart in San Francisco

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Topic

San Francisco

Speaker

Tony Bennett

Source

I Left My Heart in San Francisco

Medium

Song

Genre

Great American songbook

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Cross, Douglass. "I Left My Heart in San Francisco." I Left My Heart in San Francisco. Performed by Tony Bennett. Columbia Records, 1962.

Art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm... An arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Saul Bellow

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Topic

Power of art Art

Speaker

Saul Bellow

Source

Writers at Work

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Bellow, Saul. Quoted in Writers at Work by George Blimpton. Third series. Penguin Books, 1977.

A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Al Capp

On abstract art.

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Topic

Abstract art Art

Author

Al Capp

Source

National Observer

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Capp, Al. National Observer. 1 July 1963.

To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe in the face of the evidence the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, if unsatisfactory, conclusion.

Walter Cronkite

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Topic

Vietnam War War

Speaker

Walter Cronkite

Source

CBS Evening News

Medium

TV news TV program

Language

English

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Cronkite, Walter. "We are Mired in Stalemate." CBS Evening News, created by Don Hewitt, CBS News Productions, 27 Feb. 1968.

Why can't a woman be more like a man?
Men are so honest, so thoroughly square;
Eternally noble, historically fair;
Who, when you win, will always give your back a pat.
Why can't a woman be like that?

Professor Henry Higgins

My Fair Lady

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Topic

Men and women Men Women

Speaker

Professor Henry Higgins

Actor

Rex Harrison

Source

A Hymn to Him My Fair Lady

Medium

Song Film

Genre

Musical comedy (film) Musical (film) Musical comedy Musical

Statement Type

Question

Language

English

Time

1964 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

"A Hymn to Him." My Fair Lady. Directed by George Cuko, performed by Rex Smith, Warner Bros., 1964.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfilment.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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Topic

Sex Modern life

Author

Malcolm Muggeridge

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Muggeridge, Malcolm. Tread Softly, for You Tread on My Jokes. Collins, 1966.

I come into the peace of wild things
Who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light.

Wendell Berry

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Topic

Man and nature Spending time in nature Nature

Author

Wendell Berry

Source

The Peace of Wild Things

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 0

Citation

Berry, Wendell. "The Peace of Wild Things." Openings. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.

Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.

Donald Justice

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Topic

Middle age The road not taken Shrinking horizons Aging

Author

Donald Justice

Source

Men at Forty

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Justice, Donald. "Men at Forty." Night Light. Wesleyan University Press, 1967.

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Carl Jung

Quoted in The Times of London

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Topic

Night and day Happiness Sadness Yin and yang

Speaker

Carl Jung

Source

The Times of London

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Jung, Carl. "The Art of Living." Sunday Times, 17 July 1960.

To have power means not to have to give in, and to force the environment or the other person to do so. Power in this narrow sense is the priority of output over intake, the ability to talk instead of listen. In a sense, it is the ability to afford not to learn.

Karl Deutsch

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Topic

Nature of power Power

Author

Karl Deutsch

Source

The Nerves of Government

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Deutsch, Karl. The Nerves of Government: Models of Political Communication and Control. Free Press, 1963, ch. 7.

Negroes will not break out of the barriers of the ghetto unless whites transcend the barriers of their own minds, for the ghetto in which the white lives imprisoned. The poetic irony of American race relations is that the rejected Negro must somehow also find the strength to free the privileged white.

Kenneth B. Clark

Dark Ghetto

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Topic

Race relations

Author

Kenneth B. Clark

Source

Dark Ghetto

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Clark, Kenneth B. Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power. Harper and Row, 1965, ch. 9.

The chilling effect upon the exercise of First Amendment rights may derive from the fact of the prosecution, unaffected by the prospects of its success or failure.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Dombrowski v. Pfister

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Topic

First Amendment Freedom of speech and expression

Author

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Source

Dombrowski v. Pfister

Medium

Supreme Court opinion Legal opinion

Genre

Legal writing

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Brennan, William J, Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Dombrowski v. Pfister. United States Reports, vol. 380, 26 Apr. 1965, pp. 479-502. supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/380/479/.