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

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Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

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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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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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...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.

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The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.

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Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me.

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If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

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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 live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

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How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.

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Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

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Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow. For the truth is the greatest weapon we have.

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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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Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

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No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?

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The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.

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

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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

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There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.

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