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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 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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We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

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There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

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Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

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If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting

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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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He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

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The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

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Our true nationality is mankind.

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Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.

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We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

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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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The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity.

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London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.

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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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Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.

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The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.

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A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.

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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

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