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An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

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All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

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IBM is helping to greatly advance and expedite quality sampling while providing our project investigators peace of mind that the information they are gathering is securely stored and protected.

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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

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An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.

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There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

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But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

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States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

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If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace - that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government - for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable - in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.

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There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

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

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Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

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We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space.

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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

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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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The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

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Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.

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My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.

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