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The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

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When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.

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The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.

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Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year 2000 A.D., and very probably before 1950, a successful aeroplane will have soared and come home safe and sound.

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There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I believed there was a Devil... Suddenly the light broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie... For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty... Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity?

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The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.

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But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.

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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

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So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

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If only I had thought of a Kodak! I could have flashed that glimpse of the Under-world in a second, and examined it at leisure.

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There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

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Ignorance is not an extension of time

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It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.

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New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

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I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

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If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.

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[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.

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The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

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Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

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Am I dreaming? Has the world gone mad--or have I?

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