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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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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
— Lewis Carroll
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Since we took to the sky, we have wanted to fly faster and farther. And to do so, we've had to believe…
— Regina E. Dugan
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Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer.
— Percy Cerutty
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When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
— Ernest Renan
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We need never refrain from asking anything of God simply on the ground that we think it impossible. God specializes in "impossible"…
— Unknown Author
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Impossible things are simply those which so far have never been done.
— Elbert Hubbard
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One can't believe impossible things.
— Lewis Carroll
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I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual…
— Augustus De Morgan
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They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a…
— William Westmoreland
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I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had…
— Norman O. Brown
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I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been…
— Philip O Ceallaigh
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In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things…
— Will Shetterly
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