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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

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Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

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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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We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

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The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.

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The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.

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He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the

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

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Hunger makes a fool of a man.

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We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

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London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.

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Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving.

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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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What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

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States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

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All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

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Are we all bubbles blown by a baby?

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The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.

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And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

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To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean to a man—the mystery, the power, the freedom. Drawbacks I saw none. You have only to think! And I, a shabby, poverty-struck, hemmed-in demonstrator, teaching fools in a provincial college, might suddenly become—this.

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