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

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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

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I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

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It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

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If there is no God, nothing matters. If there is a God, nothing else matters.

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I write to cover a frame of ideas.

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The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

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Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

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

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Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving.

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All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented.

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The world needs something stronger than any possible rebellion against its peace. In other words it needs a federal world government embodying a new conception of human life as one whole.

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The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe—I have thought since—I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But in spite of the brilliant sunlight and the green fans of the trees waving in the soothing sea-breeze, the world was a confusion, blurred with drifting black and red phantasms, until I was out of earshot of the house in the stone wall.

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Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen.

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The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

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