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The future is the shape of things to come.

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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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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

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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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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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Only people who are well off can be - complex.

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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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The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

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The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice

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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

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Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

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Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.

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Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

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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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They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is he but funk and precautions.

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Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated - darkness still.

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In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.

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