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First Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower · 1953

★ 7.0

Knowing that certain nights whose sweetness lingers will keep returning to the earth and sea after we are gone, yes, this helps us die.

Albert Camus

The Sea Close By · 1953

★ 6.1

Philosophical literature

What is your aim in philosophy?-To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations · 1953

★ 5.3

Novel

The history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.

Michael Crichton

Jurassic Park · 1953

★ 5.2

Novel · Detective fiction

Alcohol is like love...The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.

Raymond Chandler

The Long Goodbye · 1953

★ 5.2

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

There is no doubt that, if there were a super-Supreme Court, a substantial proportion of our reversals of state courts would also be reversed. We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.

Robert H. Jackson

Brown v. Allen · 1953

★ 5.1

Political literature

Habit and custom may be the wisdom of unlettered men, but they come from the sound ancient heart of humanity.

Russell Kirk

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot · 1953

★ 5.1

Philosophical literature

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations · 1953

★ 4.5

Novel

There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.

Raymond Chandler

The Long Goodbye · 1953

★ 3.7

Philosophical literature

Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it... It leaves everything as it is.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations · 1953

★ 3.6

Play · Modernist literature

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot · 1953

★ 3.6

Essay · Philosophical literature

There exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single, central vision, one system more or less coherent or articulate, in terms of which they understand, think and feel... And on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory... The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes... Dante belongs to the first category, Shakespeare to the second.

Isaiah Berlin

1953

★ 3.5

Novel

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

L.P. Hartley

The Go-Between · 1953

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

Every gun that is made, ever warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1953

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. They claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

Kwame Nkrumah

1953

★ 3.5

Biography

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down.

Wilson Mizner

1953

★ 3.5

Newspaper

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

Aneurin Bevan

1953

★ 3.5

For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.

Charles E. Wilson

1953

★ 3.4

Romantic comedy (film) · Romantic comedy

Each, in its own way, was unforgettable. It would be difficult to—Rome! By all means, Rome. I will cherish my visit here in memory as long as I live.

Princess Ann

Roman Holiday · 1953

★ 2.2

Speech · Political speech

Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

First Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower · 1953

★ 2.1

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