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

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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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Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me.

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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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Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.

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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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When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

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Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.

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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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I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

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You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.

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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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This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live in it.

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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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Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

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