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Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.

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It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

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That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

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A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line

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Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.

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Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

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Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

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Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

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The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

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Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

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A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.

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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

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