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...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

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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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We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world’s peace, or we must be prepared for – a continuation of war.

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Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty.

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If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

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I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.

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Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done

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Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

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It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.

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The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.

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I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.

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Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.

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I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State.

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If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

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The brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If their were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.

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He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

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We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.

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A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

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I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

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Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

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