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

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Ignorance is not an extension of time

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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

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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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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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War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.

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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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The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.

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We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

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Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being

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The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.

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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

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Our true nationality is mankind.

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

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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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The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx.

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There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

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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 must end war before war ends us.

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