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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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Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

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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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... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

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

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

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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

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It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.

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Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.

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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

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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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We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

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There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

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The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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...the Idumeans (Edomites) were...made Jews...and a Turkish people (Khazars) were mainly Jews in South Russia...The main part of Jewry never was in Judea and had never come out of Judea.

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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

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It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

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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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