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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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Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

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I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

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We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

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The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.

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We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

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Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.

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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.

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This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under the age of thirty...It may play an important and increasing role in the consolidation of a new world order.

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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.

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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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When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.

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Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust laws and poisonous and hateful suggestions and prejudices, create a system of social right-dealing and a tradition of right-feeling and action. Socialism is the schoolroom of true and noble Anarchism, wherein by training and restraint we shall make free men.

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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

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We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

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