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The past is but the past of a beginning.

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The future is the shape of things to come.

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I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

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The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.

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Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.

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But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

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Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

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Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

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Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

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There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

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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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If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of time any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should we not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time Dimension; or even to turn about and travel the other way?

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The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

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