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I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.

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

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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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Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.

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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.

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Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

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A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

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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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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has been a whirlpool, swift, unprogressive and incessant, a torrent of thoughts leading nowhere, spinning round swift and steady.

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

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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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He who does not contemplate the future is destined to be overwhelmed by it.

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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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Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.

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

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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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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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Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done

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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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