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

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

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The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.

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The past is but the past of a beginning.

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The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.

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...fact takes no heed of human hopes.

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There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.

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But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.

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Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

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Are we all bubbles blown by a baby?

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There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

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Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.

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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

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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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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.

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In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

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Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

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By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.

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