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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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Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.

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There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

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Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

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The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

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It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

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'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'

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The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains. It has to dominate education everywhere in the world. When that end is achieved, then the world state will be achieved.

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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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Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

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Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

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

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And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns, and farmhouses had nestled among their trees, wind wheels similar to those he saw and bearing like vast advertisements, gaunt and distinctive symbols of the new age, cast their whirling shadows and stored incessantly the energy that flowed away incessantly through all the arteries of the city. ... The great circular shapes of complaining wind-wheels blotted out the heavens.

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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

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

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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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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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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

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