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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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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Let's forget the novelties. If we prevail in prayer, God will do only what he can do. How he does things, when…
— Jim Cymbala
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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…
— Lewis Mumford
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We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
— Mark Twain
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For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for…
— Thomas Huxley
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To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a…
— William James
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Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
— Iris Murdoch
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We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad - sad priests - in some sense becoming…
— Pope Francis
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And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit…
— Galileo Galilei
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Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always…
— Frederick Rolfe
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Novelties please less than they impress.
— Charles Dickens
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