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Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.

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Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

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I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.With us it would be as with them, to lurk and watch, to run and hide; the fear and empire of man had passed away.

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To be honest, one must be inconsistent.

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Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.

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The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.

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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

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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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Go away... I'm alright.

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There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

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The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

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

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Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

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If your life doesn't end in failure, you haven't reached high enough. So it was failure I had to achieve.

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I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

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Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty.

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Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

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The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.

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I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

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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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