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Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made…
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Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they…
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The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will…
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When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when…
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can…
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against…
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and…
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One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in…
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want…
— Mark Twain
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I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
— Callan McAuliffe
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It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be…
— John Drinkwater
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A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.
— F. R. Leavis
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To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a…
— C.S. Lewis
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I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
— Marguerite Young
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Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could…
— Charles Darwin
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The preliminaries were out of the way, the creative process was about to begin. The creative process, that mystic life force, that…
— Cornell Woolrich
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The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with…
— Susan Cain
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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
— Samuel Johnson
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The only paradise is paradise lost.
— Marcel Proust
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