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Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has…
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Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the…
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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The chief enemy of peace is the spirit of unreason itself: an inability to conceive alternatives, an unwillingness to reconsider old prejudices,…
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in…
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Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
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War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
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In war, the army is not merely a pure consumer, but a negative producer...
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I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, "This man was an absolute fool.…
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When vitality runs high, death takes men by surprise. But if they close their eyes to this possibility, what they gain in…
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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in…
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Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but…
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Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained…
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It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people,…
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O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap May who ne'er hung there. Nor does…
— Gerard Manley Hopkins
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The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the heart of a woman?
— Louis L'Amour
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Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will…
— Gautama Buddha
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The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little…
— Katherine Mansfield
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There are depths to the human soul that should not be fathomed.
— Ann Rinaldi
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No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.
— John Irving
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How do you fathom something that cannot be fathomed. Faith.
— Andrew Cervantes
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