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An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

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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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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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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

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The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.

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Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.

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Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.

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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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I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made.

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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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Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

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

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Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year 2000 A.D., and very probably before 1950, a successful aeroplane will have soared and come home safe and sound.

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Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds – adventure.

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

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We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

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It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

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Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

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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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