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I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

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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 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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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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We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space.

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The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.

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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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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

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But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.

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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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What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

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The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

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Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

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This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

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The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

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I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress of civilization made possible only by vigorous and sometimes even, violent Lying; that the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good.

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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.

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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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Money means in a thousand minds a thousand subtly different, roughly similar, systems of images, associations, suggestions and impulses.

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