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It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.

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The past is but the past of a beginning.

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

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

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

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

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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.

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The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.

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

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The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.

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By this time I was no longer very much terrified or very miserable. I had, as it were, passed the limit of terror and despair. I felt now that my life was practically lost, and that persuasion made me capable of daring anything

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

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Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.

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The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.

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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

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This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

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Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous and hateful suggestions and prejudices, create a system of social right-dealing and a tradition of right-feeling and action. Socialism is the schoolroom of true and noble Anarchism, wherein by training and restraint we shall make free men.

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