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Are we all bubbles blown by a baby?

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It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

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Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving.

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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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Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

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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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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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I hope, or I could not live.

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Hunger makes a fool of a man.

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Chess is a curse upon a man.

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Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds – adventure.

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In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.

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once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

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The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

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The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

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The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.

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We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space.

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We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

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To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.

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Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

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