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The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of general conduct in hundreds of millions of brains. It has to dominate education everywhere in the world. When that end is achieved, then the world state will be achieved.

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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

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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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All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented.

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[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on the high altar. And on the altar, very reverently place, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an egg-shell, a bit of string.

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Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

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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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Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.

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It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.

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

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Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.

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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 teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.

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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

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Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night.

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There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

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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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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

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By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.

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Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done

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