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Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way.

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Go away. I'm all right. [last words]

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When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.

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War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.

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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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Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.

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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.

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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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The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.

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Hunger makes a fool of a man.

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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

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London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.

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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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Ignorance is not an extension of time

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If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.

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He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the

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A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He has given up his life to his temple and his god. This is a very excellent thing for the internal vigour of his own priesthood, his own temple. He lives and dies for the honour of his particular god. But in the next town or village is another temple with another god. It is his constant preoccupation to keep his people from that god. Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce.

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Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

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A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.

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We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

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