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Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

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It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.

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But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.

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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

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So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky rained heroes upon the astonished earth. Surely the last fights of mankind were the best. What was the heavy pounding of your Homeric swordsmen, what was the creaking charge of chariots, besides this swift rush, this crash, this giddy triumph, this headlong sweep to death?

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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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As the journalists of the time phased it, this was the epoch of the Leap into the Air. The new atomic aeroplane became indeed a mania; everyone of means was frantic to possess a thing so controllable, so secure and so free from the dust and danger of the road, and in France in the year 1943 thirty thousand of these new aeroplanes were manufactured and licensed, and soared humming softly into the sky.

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What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

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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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once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

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Advertising is legalized lying.

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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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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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Hunger makes a fool of a man.

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It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.

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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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Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

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Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

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I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

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A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.

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