1960s

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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Arthur C. Clarke

Also known as Clarke's First Law.

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Topic

Technological progress Progress

Author

Arthur C. Clarke

Source

Profiles of the Future

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Clarke, Arthur C. "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination." Profiles of the Future. Gollancz, 1962.

There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens.

Desmond Morris

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Topic

Primates Man and animals

Author

Desmond Morris

Source

The Naked Ape

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Morris, Desmond. The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study of the Human Animal. Jonathan Cape, 1967, introduction.

To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.

Michael Oakeshott

On Being Conservative

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Topic

Conservatism Politics

Author

Michael Oakeshott

Source

On Being Conservative

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Oakeshott, Michael. "On Being Conservative. " Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays. Methuen, 1962.

Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.

Charles Sanders Peirce

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Topic

Life experience Consciousness Subconscious

Author

Charles Sanders Peirce

Genre

Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Peirce, Charles Sanders. Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Science and Philosophy. Vol. 7, The Belknap Press, 1966, par. 547.

There is nothing in the world except empty curved space. Matter, charge, electromagnetism and other fields are only manifestations of the curvature of space.

John Archibald Wheeler

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Topic

Perception vs. reality

Speaker

John Archibald Wheeler

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1960 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Wheeler, John Archibald. "Curved Empty Space-Time as the Building Material of the Physical World." Meeting of the International Philosophy of Science Association. 1960, Stanford, CA, USA.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane. Hitler was the archetype of the abstemious man.

A.J. Liebling

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Topic

Cutting loose Asceticism

Author

A.J. Liebling

Source

La Nautique

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Liebling, Abbott Joseph. "La Nautique." Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris. Simon & Schuster, 1959.

The other America, the America of poverty, is hidden today in a way that it never was before. Its millions are socially invisible to the rest of us... The very development of American society is creating a new kind of blindness about poverty. The poor are increasingly slipping out of the very experience and consciousness of the nation.

Michael Harrington

The Other America

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Topic

America Poverty

Author

Michael Harrington

Source

The Other America

Genre

Sociology

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Harrington, Michael. The Other America: Poverty in the United States. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1962, ch. 1.

A land ethic for tomorrow should be as honest as Thoreau's Walden, and as comprehensive as the sensitive science of ecology. It should stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life. If, in our haste to "progress," the economics of ecology are disregarded by citizens and policy makers alike, the result will be an ugly America.

Stewart Udall

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Topic

Conservation

Author

Stewart Udall

Source

The Quiet Crisis

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Udall, Stewart. The Quiet Crisis. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963, ch. 14.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Malcolm X

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Topic

Peace Freedom

Speaker

Malcolm X

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Malcolm X. "Prospects for Freedom in 1965." Militant Labor Forum. 7 Jan. 1965, Palm Gardens, New York City, NY, USA.

Current Citation

Malcolm X. "Prospects for Freedom in 1965." Malcolm X Speaks, edited by George Breitman. Grove Press, 1994.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy

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Topic

Leadership Learning

Author

John F. Kennedy

Source

Remarks Prepared for Deliver at the Trade Mart in Dallas on November 22, 1963

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Kennedy, John F. "Remarks Prepared for Deliver at the Trade Mart in Dallas on November 22, 1963." Speech undelivered due to assassination.

I don't think you can really put a monetary value on a painting.

Jacob Lawrence

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Topic

Art and money Art

Speaker

Jacob Lawrence

Source

Smithsonian Institution

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1968 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Lawrence, Jacob. Interviewed by Carroll Greene. 26 Oct. 1968, New York City, NY, USA.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

James Baldwin

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Topic

Fighting for justice Political courage Courage Progress Politics

Author

James Baldwin

Source

As Much Truth As One Can Bear The New York Times

Medium

Essay Newspaper

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Baldwin, James. "As Much Truth As One Can Bear." The New York Times, 14 Jan. 1962.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

Susan Sontag

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Topic

Meaning of art Art

Author

Susan Sontag

Source

Against Interpretation

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Sontag, Susan "Against Interpretation." Against Interpretation. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

Barbra Streisand

Life Magazine

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Topic

Success

Speaker

Barbra Streisand

Source

Life Magazine

Language

English

Time

1963 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Streisand, Barbra. Quoted in "Success Is a Baked Potato." Life Magazine, 20 Sept. 1963.

It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing-that's the Lord's test.

Mahalia Jackson

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Topic

Independence

Author

Mahalia Jackson

Source

Movin' On Up

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1966 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Jackson, Mahalia and Evan McLoud Wylie. Movin' On Up. Hawthorn Books, 1966, ch. 1.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

W.H. Auden

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Topic

Books Collective memory

Author

W.H. Auden

Source

Reading The Dyer's Hand

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Auden, W. H. "Reading." The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays. Random House, 1962.

We are stardust,
We are golden,
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden.

Joni Mitchell

Woodstock

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Topic

Garden of Eden Modern life

Speaker

Joni Mitchell

Source

Woodstock

Medium

Song

Genre

Rock music

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Mitchell, Joni. "Woodstock." Ladies of the Canyon. Reprise Records, 1970.

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

Rachel Carson

Silent Spring

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Topic

Environmental destruction

Author

Rachel Carson

Source

Silent Spring

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin, 1962, ch. 8.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

Pierre Trudeau

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Topic

Right to privacy

Speaker

Pierre Trudeau

Language

English

Time

1967 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Trudeau, Pierre. Comment in the Canadian House of Commons on the decriminalization of homosexuality. Canadian House of Commons. 22 Dec. 1967, Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Canada.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

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Topic

Art

Author

Marc Chagall

Source

Time Magazine

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1965 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Chagall, Marc. "Painting: Midsummer Night's Dreamer." Time Magazine, 30 Jul. 1965.