1946

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The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

Albert Einstein

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Nuclear weapons

Author

Albert Einstein

Source

Telegram to prominent Americans

Language

German

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Einstein, Albert. "Atomic Education Urged by Einstein." New York Times, 25 May 1946. Originally from "Telegram to prominent Americans." 24 May 1946. USA.

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Jorge Luis Borges

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Martyrdom Religious observance Piety Religion

Author

Jorge Luis Borges

Source

Deutsches Requiem El Aleph

Medium

Short story

Language

Spanish

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Original Citation

Borges, Jorge Luis. "Deutsches Requiem." Sur, Feb. 1946.

Current Citation

Borges, Jorge Luis. "Deutsches Requiem." The Aleph and Other Stories, translated by Andrew Hurley. Penguin Classics, 2004.

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

Robert Graves

The Persian Version

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Topic

Different perspectives

Author

Robert Graves

Source

The Persian Version

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Graves, Robert. "The Persian Version." Poems 1938-1945: Satires and Grotesques. Cassell & Company, 1946, I. 1.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

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Meaning of life Life The human condition

Author

Viktor Frankl

Source

Man's Search for Meaning

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

German

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Original Citation

Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

Current Citation

Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself.

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

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Topic

Success Dedication Happiness

Author

Viktor Frankl

Source

Man's Search for Meaning

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

German

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

Current Citation

Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.

Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had never known a man like this Man-there has never been such another... Who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them either as "The women, God help us", or "The ladies, God bless them!"

Dorothy L. Sayers

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Patriarchy Gender relations Women

Author

Dorothy L. Sayers

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Sayers, Dorothy. "The Human-Not-Quite-Human." Unpopular Opinions. Victor Gollancz, 1946.

It did not take atomic weapons to make man want peace, a peace that would last. But the atomic bomb was the turn of the screw. It has made the prospect of future war unendurable.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Nuclear weapons

Speaker

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Source

The Atomic Bomb and College Education

Medium

Speech

Genre

Commencement address

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert. "The Atomic Bomb and College Education." Commencement ceremony. 28 Feb. 1946, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

Max Beerbohm

From Bloomsbury to Baywater

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Topic

Trying new things

Author

Max Beerbohm

Source

From Bloomsbury to Baywater

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Beerbohm, Max. "From Bloomsbury to Baywater." Mainly on the Air. William Heinemann, 1946. Originally published in World Review of Reviews, Aug. 1940.

If you were to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say there has been no war, there are no slain, there has been no crime.

Robert H. Jackson

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Topic

The Holocaust Accountability

Speaker

Robert H. Jackson

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Jackson, Robert H. Summation for the prosecution. Nuremberg Trials. 26 July 1946, Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, Germany.

I do not know why the necessity of God
Should feed on grief; but it seems so.

Christopher Fry

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Topic

Need of God Grief

Speaker

Moses

Author

Christopher Fry

Source

The Firstborn

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Fry, Christopher. The Firstborn. Cambridge University Press, 1946, act 3, sc. 2.

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation…we must elect world peace or world destruction.

Bernard Baruch

Address to the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission, June 14, 1946

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Topic

Atomic Age Nuclear weapons

Speaker

Bernard Baruch

Source

Address to the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission, June 14, 1946

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Baruch, Bernard M. Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. First session of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. 14 June 1946, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA.

I don't like gentlemen who grin at me.

Notorious

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Topic

Pursuing women Men and women

Speaker

Alicia Huberman

Actor

Ingrid Bergman

Source

Notorious

Medium

Film

Genre

Film noir Spy (film) Spy

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Notorious. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, RKO Pictures/Vanguard Films, 1946.

Waving the flag with one hand and picking pockets with the other, that's your "patriotism."

Notorious

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Political cynicism Patriotism

Speaker

Alicia Huberman

Actor

Ingrid Bergman

Source

Notorious

Medium

Film

Genre

Film noir Spy (film) Spy

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Notorious. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, RKO Pictures/Vanguard Films, 1946.

Mary, I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day, and next year, and the year after that. I'm shakin' the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I'm gonna see the world.

It's a Wonderful Life

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Topic

Making a change

Speaker

George Bailey

Actor

Jimmy Stewart

Source

It's a Wonderful Life

Medium

Film

Genre

Christmas (film) Drama (film) Christmas Drama

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

It's a Wonderful Life. Directed by Frank Capra, Liberty Films, 1946.

Doesn't it bother you at all that you're married?

Gilda

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Affairs Infidelity

Speaker

Johnny Farrell

Actor

Glenn Ford

Source

Gilda

Medium

Film

Genre

Film noir Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Gilda. Directed by Charles Vidor, Columbia Pictures, 1946.

Dry your eyes, baby; it's out of character.

Notorious

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Crying

Speaker

Devlin

Actor

Cary Grant

Source

Notorious

Medium

Film

Genre

Film noir Spy (film) Spy

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Notorious. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, RKO Pictures/Vanguard Films, 1946.

It is so crowded and yet so lonely, isn't it?

Gilda

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Topic

Loneliness

Speaker

Uncle Pio

Actor

Steven Geray

Source

Gilda

Medium

Film

Genre

Film noir Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Gilda. Directed by Charles Vidor, Columbia Pictures, 1946.

We are protected by the enormity of your stupidity, for a time.

Notorious

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Madame Sebastian

Actor

Leopoldine Konstantin

Source

Notorious

Medium

Film

Genre

Film noir Spy (film) Spy

Statement Type

Insult

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Notorious. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, RKO Pictures/Vanguard Films, 1946.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

George Orwell

Politics and the English Language

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Bad writing Writing

Author

George Orwell

Source

Politics and the English Language

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Original Citation

Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." Horizon, Apr. 1946, vol. 13, issue 76, pp. 252-265.

Current Citation

Orwell, George. "Politics and the English Language." The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, vol. 4: In Front of Your Nose 1945-1950, edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. David R. Godine, 1999, no. 38.

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't... All reactionaries are paper tigers.

Mao Zedong

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Topic

Nuclear weapons

Speaker

Mao Zedong

Medium

Interview

Language

Chinese

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Zedong, Mao. Talk with the American Correspondent Anna Louise Strong. Aug. 1946.