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This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

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

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The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which men and women must give themselves and their energies, regardless of the consequence to themselves The activities of a cult which sets itself to bring about the world-state would at first be propagandist, they would be intellectual and educational, and only as a sufficient mass of opinion and will had accumulated would they become to a predominant extent politically constructive. Such a cult must direct itself particularly to the teaching of the young.

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The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice

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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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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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This blessed gift of smoking!

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

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

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You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.

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Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

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Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

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