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It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

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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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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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No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

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Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.

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Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.

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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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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

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Only people who are well off can be - complex.

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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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It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession of pictures on a cinema film. It may be that reality is an illusion of movement in an eternal, static, multidimensional universe. We may be only a story written on the ground of the inconceivable; the pattern on a rug beneath the feet of the incomprehensible.

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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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Ignorance is not an extension of time

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This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under the age of thirty...It may play an important and increasing role in the consolidation of a new world order.

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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

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If after all my Atheology turns out wrong and your Theology right I feel I shall always be able to pass into Heaven (if I want to) as a friend of G.K.C.'s. Bless you.

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There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

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We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.

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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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