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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

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A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

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We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.

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A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

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Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

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Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances outside of themselves and by currents of the time, but Margaret Sanger made currents and circumstances. When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

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The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

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Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

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What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

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And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

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Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.

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If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement ... collapsed like a house of cards.

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

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Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

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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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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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In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.

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To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.

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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

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