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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… Action
- While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were… Any
- 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… Bridges
- We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in… Any
- When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she… Abstract
- They haven't any spirit in them - no proud dreams and no proud lusts; and a man who hasn't one or the other-Lord! What is… Any
- We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die.… All
- 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… Believed
- Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me. Coming
- Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change. Appeals
- Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one. Build
- Tell the truth and read story books;it will take you to the magical moment in a glory night. Book
- It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is… Accomplished
- 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. Each
- 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… Alternations
- I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there. Best
- 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.… Allow
- I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd. Crowd
- If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it. Attack
- This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants. Ants
- We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear. Dear
- Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily. Clever
- What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active,… Active
- For after the Battle comes quiet. Battle
- This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay. Art
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