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The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice

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As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane became indeed a mania; everyone of means was frantic to possess a thing so controllable, so secure and so free from the dust and danger of the road, and in France in the year 1943 thirty thousand of these new aeroplanes were manufactured and licensed, and soared humming softly into the sky.

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You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

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Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

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Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

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The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.

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If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

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I write to cover a frame of ideas.

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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

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By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything

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A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

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When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

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Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

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In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

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This blessed gift of smoking!

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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

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