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The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

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What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

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This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

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Only people who are well off can be - complex.

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Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

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

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Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

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We must end war before war ends us.

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War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.

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It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.

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Advertising is legalized lying.

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Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.

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A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars.

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Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year 2000 A.D., and very probably before 1950, a successful aeroplane will have soared and come home safe and sound.

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Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night. Here was another side to my dream.

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New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

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Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.

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If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.

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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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Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

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