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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition…
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
— Anna Akhmatova
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Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have…
— Vicki Myron
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I bet it was pretty hard to pick up girls if you had the Black Death.
— Jack Handey
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If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world…
— Bertrand Russell
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Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is…
— Scott Westerfeld
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Wow. Nice bike,” I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.
— Aldous Huxley
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I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment,…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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I hope and trust to meet you in Heaven, both white and black-both white and black.
— Andrew Jackson
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