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Little do they know that they meet under an empty sky from which the gods have departed.

Hans Morgenthau

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Morgenthau, Hans. Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace. Alfred A. Knopf, 1948.

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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

William Ralph Inge

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Inge, William Ralph. The End of an Age and Other Essays. Putnam, 1948, ch. 6.

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In bombers named for girls, we burned
The cities we had learned about in school-
Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among
The people we had killed and never seen.
When we lasted long enough they gave us medals;
When we died they said, "Our casualties were low."

Randall Jarrell

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Jarrell, Randall. Losses. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948, I. 22.

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Words…are loaded pistols.

Jean-Paul Sartre

What is Literature?

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Sartre, Jean Paul. Qu'est-ce que la littérature? [What is Literature?]. Situations, II. Gallimard, 1948, ch. 1.

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Sartre, Jean Paul. What is Literature? Routledge, 2001, ch. 1.

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The Government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional government thereof. The United States recognizes the provisional government of the de facto authority of the new state of Israel.

Harry Truman

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Truman, Harry S. Statement announcing recognition of the State of Israel. 14 May 1948, Washington, DC, USA.

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It's the darkness that's got you down. Nobody feels really safe in the dark.

Rope

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Rope. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Transatlantic Pictures, 1948.

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We brought nothing into this world and it's certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Amen.

Red River

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Red River. Directed by Howard Hawks, Monterey Productions, 1948.

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I did not come here to solve anything.
I came to sing,
And for you to sing with me.

Pablo Neruda

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Neruda, Pablo. Que Despierte El Leñador. Colección Yagruma, 1948.

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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Jackson Pollock

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Pollock, Jackson. "My Painting." Possibilities, no. 1, Winter 1947-1948, p. 79.

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Common sense is actually nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind prior to the age of eighteen.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. Quoted in The Universe and Dr. Eistein. Written by Lincoln Barnett. Sloane, 1950. Originally printed in Harpers, 1948.

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In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Graham Greene

The Heart of the Matter

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Greene, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. William Heinemann/The Viking Press, 1948, bk. 1, pt. 1, ch. 2, sec. 4.

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No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.

Graham Greene

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Greene, Graham. The Heart of the Matter. William Heinemann/The Viking Press, 1948, bk. 1, pt. 3, ch. 1, sec. 1.

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The grand aim of all science [is] to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest possible number of hypotheses or axioms.

Albert Einstein

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Einstein, Albert. Quoted in The Universe and Dr. Eistein. Written by Lincoln Barnett. Sloane, 1950. Originally printed in Harpers, 1948.

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The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Omar Bradley

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Bradley, Omar. "Armistice Day Speech, November 10, 1948." The Collected Writings of General Omar N. Bradley. Vol. 1, U. S. Government Printing Office, 1967. Originally a speech at an Armistice Day Celebration. 10 Nov. 1948, Boston Chamber of Commerence, Boston, MA, USA.

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Words have weight, sound, and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Maugham, William Somerset. The Summing Up. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1938, ch. 13.

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