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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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The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.

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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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If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement ... collapsed like a house of cards.

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Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.

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You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

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'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'

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Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.

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So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

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Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

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It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.

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After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

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An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

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The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past.

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He began to realize that you cannot even fight happily with creatures that stand upon a different mental basis to yourself.

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

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It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

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I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

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Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

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He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the

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