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In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.

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Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

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Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.

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Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

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If the world does not please you, you can change it.

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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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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges him for ever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, to risk an even a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me that there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made to go about safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. ... against his interest, against his happiness, he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things. Some force not himself impels him, and he must go.

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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

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It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I believed there was a Devil... Suddenly the light broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie... For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty... Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity?

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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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I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

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We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space.

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War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.

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