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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.

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This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.

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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

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In general, Hitler embodied the view of any popular newspaper.

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If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

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In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

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In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

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We cannot hope for a society in which formal organized religion dies out. But we can stop behaving as if it was worthy of our collective respect.

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History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

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As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.

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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.

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I don't write books inadvertently.

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I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.

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My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.

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When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.

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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

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A busybody's work is never done.

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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

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One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.

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