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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

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We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.

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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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I hope, or I could not live.

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An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.

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This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

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We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.

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

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There's truths you have to grow into.

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Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances outside of themselves and by currents of the time, but Margaret Sanger made currents and circumstances. When the history of our civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

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Our true nationality is mankind.

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I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made.

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When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.

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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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I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

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The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.

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If we don't end war, war will end us.

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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

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There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

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We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

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