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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

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Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

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Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

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This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

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The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

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Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the most intimate entanglement with traditional institutions, is the Roman Catholic Church.

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The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

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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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Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents.

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But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.

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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

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I hope, or I could not live.

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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

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The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in the air increased in number. From the edge of the sea came a ripple and whisper. Beyond these lifeless sounds the world was silent. Silent? It would be hard to convey the stillness of it. All the sounds of man, the bleating of sheep, the cries of birds, the hum of insects, the stir that makes the background of our lives - all that was over.

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For after the Battle comes quiet.

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The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

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