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Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

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It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

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There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.

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

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We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

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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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Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

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If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting

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I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State.

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An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

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Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

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The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear to moderate-minded 'reasonable' men. Armament itself is making war. Making a gun, pointing a gun, and firing it are all acts of the same order. It should be illegal to construct anywhere upon earth any mechanism for the specific purpose of killing men. When you see a gun it is reasonable to ask: 'Whom is that intended to kill?'

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With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

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The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.

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