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When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning.

Albert Camus

Reflections on the Guillotine

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Camus, Albert and Arthur Koestler. "Réflexions sur la peine Capitale [Reflections on Capital Punishment]." Gallimard, 1957.

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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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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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He's always attracted by the art he isn't practicing, the place he hasn't been, the girl he hasn't met.

An Affair to Remember

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An Affair to Remember. Directed by Leo McCarey, Jerry Wald Productions, 1957.

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Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

Stanislaw Lec

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Lec, Stanislaw. Unkempt Thoughts, translated by Jacek Galazka. St. Martin's Press, 1962. Originally published as Myśli nieuczesane [Uncombed Thoughts]. Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1957.

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It's always difficult to keep personal prejudice out of a thing like this. And wherever you run into it, prejudice always obscures the truth. I don't really know what the truth is. I don't suppose anybody will ever really know. Nine of us now seem to feel that the defendant is innocent, but we're just gambling on probabilities—we may be wrong. We may be trying to let a guilty man go free, I don't know. Nobody really can. But we have a reasonable doubt, and that's something that's very valuable in our system. No jury can declare a man guilty unless it's sure.

12 Angry Men

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12 Angry Men. Directed by Sidney Lumet, Orion-Nova Productions and Orion-Nova Pictures, 1957.

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Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.

Giuseppe di Lampedusa

The Leopard

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Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi. Il Gattopard [The Leopard]. Feltrinelli, 1958, ch. 2.

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Lampedusa, Giuseppe. The Leopard, translated by Archibald Colquhoun. Pantheon, 2007, ch. 2.

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We hold that obscenity is not within the area of constitutionally protected speech or press.

William J. Brennan, Jr

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Brennan, William J., Jr. United States, Supreme Court. Roth v. United States. United States Reports, vol. 354, 24 June 1957, pp. 476-514. Justia, supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/354/476/.

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Our gadget-filled paradise suspended in a hell of international insecurity.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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Niebuhr, Reinhold. Pious and Secular America. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958.

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Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Max Frisch

Homo Faber

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Frisch, Max. Homo faber. Ein Bericht. [Homo faber. A Report.] Abelard-Schuman, 1957.

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We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

Lawrence Durrell

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Durrell, Lawrence. Justine. Faber & Faber/E. P. Dutton, 1957.

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The mystery of life is not solved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.

Patrick White

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White, Patrick. Voss. Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957, ch. 10.

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The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Edward VIII

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Edward VIII. "Edward VIII, Afterwards Duke of Windsor." Look Magazine, 5 Mar. 1957.

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Wear dark clothes after 6 p. M. Eat fresh fish for breakfast when available. Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes premature gray hair. Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the Lord.

John Cheever

The Wapshot Chronicle

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Cheever, John. The Wapshot Chronicle. Harper & Brothers, 1957, ch. 37.

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Few have heard of Fra Luca Pacioli, the inventor of double-entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.

Herbert J. Muller

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Muller, Herbert. Uses of the Past: Profiles of Former Societies. Oxford University Press, 1952, ch. 8.

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So close, the Infinitesimal and the Infinite. But suddenly I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet, like the closing of a gigantic circle.

The Incredible Shrinking Man

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The Incredible Shrinking Man. Directed by Jack Arnold, Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc. 1957.

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I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged

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Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. Random House, 1957, pt. 3, ch. 1.

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Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. Remarks at the National Defense Executive Reserve Conference. National Defense Executive Reserve Conference. 14 Nov. 1957, Washington DC, USA.

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Let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good.

Harold Macmillan

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Macmillan, Harold. Speech in England. 20 July 1957, Bedford, England, UK.

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My body is ready, but I am not.

The Seventh Seal

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

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