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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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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

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No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

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In all the round world of Utopia there is no meat. There used to be, but now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses. And it is impossible to find anyone who will hew a dead ox or pig. I can still remember as a boy the rejoicings over the closing of the last slaughterhouse.

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

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The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

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Go away... I'm alright.

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I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

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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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I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in a chair or sofa, while I wandered over the hills and far away in novel company and new scenes... My world began to expand very rapidly,... the reading habit had got me securely.

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

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Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

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The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.

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

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Are we all bubbles blown by a baby?

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The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.

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Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

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