1961

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Knowing who you are is good for one generation only.

Flannery O'Connor

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Topic

Self-knowledge

Speaker

Julian

Author

Flannery O'Connor

Source

Everything That Rises Must Converge

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

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Citation

O'Connor, Flannery. "Everything That Rises Must Converge." New World Writing, 1961.

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Linus

Quoted in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz

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Topic

Sisters Siblings

Speaker

Linus

Author

Charles M. Schulz

Source

Peanuts

Medium

Comic strip

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Schulz, Charles M. Peanuts. Comic Strip. 17 June 1961.

And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe—the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.

John F. Kennedy

Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy

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Topic

Human rights Natural law

Speaker

John F. Kennedy

Source

Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Kennedy, John F. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1961, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

To those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.

John F. Kennedy

Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy

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Topic

Nuclear weapons Cold War

Speaker

John F. Kennedy

Source

Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Kennedy, John F. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1961, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

John F. Kennedy

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Topic

Rich vs. poor Economic inequality

Speaker

John F. Kennedy

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Kennedy, John F. "Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1961, US Capitol Building, East Portico, Washington, DC, USA.

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

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Topic

Mediocrity

Author

Joseph Heller

Source

Catch-22

Medium

Novel

Genre

War novel

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. Simon & Schuster, 1961, ch. 9.

Insanity is hereditary. You can get it from your children.

Sam Levenson

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Topic

Parents and children

Author

Sam Levenson

Statement Type

Joke

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Levenson, Jam. Quoted in Ada Weekly News. 6 Apr. 1961.

If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, or whatever you wish to call it) that all things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed and into one another.

Richard Feynman

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Topic

Atomism Physics

Speaker

Richard Feynman

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Feynman, Richard. Lecture at Caltech. c. 1961, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Human blunders, however, usually, do more to shape history than human wickedness.

A.J.P. Taylor

The Origins of the Second World War

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Topic

Nature of history History

Author

A.J.P. Taylor

Source

The Origins of the Second World War

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Taylor, A. J. P. The Origins of the Second World War. Hamish Hamilton, 1961, ch. 10.

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose.

Theodore H. White

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Topic

American character America

Author

Theodore H. White

Source

The Making of the President

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

White, Theodore H. The Making of the President 1960. Atheneum Publishers, 1961, ch. 15.