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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

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In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

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Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

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Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances outside of themselves and by currents of the time, but Margaret Sanger made currents and circumstances. When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

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Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

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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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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

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Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

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

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A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

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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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The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.

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It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.

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All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented.

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The future is the shape of things to come.

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Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

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Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

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We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.

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