1969

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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Don Corleone

Quoted in The Godfather (novel), by Mario Puzo

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Topic

White collar crime Lawyers

Speaker

Don Corleone

Author

Mario Puzo

Source

The Godfather (novel)

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Puzo, Mario. The Godfather. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969, ch. 1.

North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.

Richard Nixon

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Topic

Vietnam War War American politics

Speaker

Richard Nixon

Source

Silent Majority Speech on the War in Vietnam

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Nixon, Richard. Televised address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam. 3 Nov. 1969, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Nixon, Richard. Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents, edited by Rick Perlstein. Princeton University Press, 2008, ch. 19.

The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.

Hannah Arendt

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Topic

Totalitarianism

Author

Hannah Arendt

Source

On Violence

Genre

Political literature Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Arendt, Hannah. "On Violence." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972, ch. 2. Originally published as "A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence." by The New York Review, 27 Feb. 1969.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do.

B.F. Skinner

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Topic

Artificial intelligence Man and machine

Author

B.F. Skinner

Source

Contingencies of Reinforcement

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Skinner, B. F. Contingencies of Reinforcement: A Theoretical Analysis. Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969, ch. 9.

Now, an army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff is a bunch of crap.

Patton

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Topic

Individual vs. the collective Team Individualism The military World War II

Speaker

General George S. Patton

Actor

George C. Scott

Source

Patton

Medium

Film

Genre

Biography (film) War (film) Biography War

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Patton. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. 20th Century Fox, 1969.

If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.

Stevie Smith

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Topic

Immortality Death

Author

Stevie Smith

Source

Observer

Medium

Newspaper

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Smith, Stevie. Observer. 9 Nov. 1969.

The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

Henry Kissinger

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Topic

Guerilla warfare Winning and losing War

Speaker

Henry Kissinger

Source

The Viet Nam Negotiations Foreign Affairs

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Kissinger, Henry. "The Viet Nam Negotiations." Foreign Affairs, Jan. 1969.

The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world.

Hannah Arendt

On Violence

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Topic

Violence

Author

Hannah Arendt

Source

On Violence

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Arendt, Hannah. "On Violence." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972, ch. 3. Originally published as "A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence." by The New York Review, 27 Feb. 1969.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Spiro Agnew

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Anti-Americanism American elite Elites

Speaker

Spiro Agnew

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Agnew, Spiro. Speech in New Orleans. Citizen's Testimonial Dinner. 19 Oct. 1969, New Orleans, LA, USA.

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

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Topic

Incompetence

Author

Laurence J. Peter

Source

The Peter Principle

Genre

Economic literature Philosophical literature

Statement Type

Precepts and axioms

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Peter, Laurence J. The Peter Principle. William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1969, ch. 1.

Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

Patton

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Topic

Dying for one's country War

Speaker

General George S. Patton

Actor

George C. Scott

Source

Patton

Medium

Film

Genre

Biography (film) War (film) Biography War

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Patton. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. 20th Century Fox, 1969.

I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and ev'ry highway
And more, much more than this. I did it my way.

Frank Sinatra

My Way

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Topic

Living life to the fullest Living on one's own terms Life

Speaker

Frank Sinatra

Source

My Way

Medium

Song

Genre

Pop music

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Anka, Paul. "My Way." Composed by Jacques Revaux. Performed by Frank Sinatra. My Way. Reprise Records, 1969.

This happened near the core
Of a world's culture. This
Occurred among higher things.
This was a philosophical conclusion.
Everybody gets what he deserves.

Alan Bold

June 1967 at Buchenwald

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Topic

The Holocaust

Author

Alan Bold

Source

June 1967 at Buchenwald

Medium

Poem

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bold, Alan. A Perpetual Motion Machine. Chatto & Windus, 1969.

Treading the soil of the moon, palpating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terre... These form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known... This is the only thing I can say about the matter. The utilitarian results do not interest me.

Vladimir Nabokov

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Topic

The moon

Author

Vladimir Nabokov

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Nabokov, Vladimir. Quoted in The New York Times. 21 July 1969.

I won't have cowards in my army.

General George S. Patton Jr.

Patton

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Topic

Cowards War

Speaker

General George S. Patton Jr.

Actor

George C. Scott

Source

Patton

Medium

Film

Genre

Biography (film) War (film) Biography War

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Patton. Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. 20th Century Fox, 1969.

I never wanted to be anybody else.

Easy Rider

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Topic

Being oneself Individualism Taking a different path

Speaker

Wyatt

Actor

Peter Fonda

Source

Easy Rider

Medium

Film

Genre

Road movie Drama (film) Drama

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Easy Rider. Directed by Dennis Hopper. Pando Company Inc./Raybert Productions, 1969.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.

Hannah Arendt

On Violence

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Topic

Power Violence Opposites Political theory Politics

Author

Hannah Arendt

Source

On Violence

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Arendt, Hannah. "On Violence." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972, ch. 2. Originally published as "A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence." by The New York Review, 27 Feb. 1969.

We find ourselves rich in goods, but ragged in spirit; reaching with magnificent precision for the moon, but falling into raucous discord on earth. We are caught in war, wanting peace. We are torn by division, wanting unity. We see around us empty lives, wanting fulfillment. We see tasks that need doing, waiting for hands to do them.

Richard Nixon

First Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon

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Topic

American prosperity Political division

Speaker

Richard Nixon

Source

First Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Nixon, Richard. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1969, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

We are approaching the limits of what government alone can do. Our greatest need now is to reach beyond government, and to enlist the legions of the concerned and the committed. What has to be done, has to be done by government and people together or it will not be done at all.

Richard Nixon

First Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon

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Topic

Political theory American politics

Speaker

Richard Nixon

Source

First Inaugural Address of Richard Nixon Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Nixon, Richard. "First Inaugural Address." 20 Jan. 1969, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism. And so tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans—I ask for your support.

Richard Nixon

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Topic

Vietnam War Cold War American politics Politics

Speaker

Richard Nixon

Source

Silent Majority Speech on the War in Vietnam

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1969 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Nixon, Richard. Televised address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam. 3 Nov. 1969, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Nixon, Richard. Richard Nixon: Speeches, Writings, Documents, edited by Rick Perlstein. Princeton University Press, 2008, ch. 19.