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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

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Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

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For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

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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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We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

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Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

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We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

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What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

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Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

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Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

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The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

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We must end war before war ends us.

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Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.

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Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations, and in the factories of India, China, and South Italy, appeared as generous supporters of and subscribers to the sacred cause of individual liberty.

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To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.

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One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.

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There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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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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The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

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