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To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin…
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In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle…
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The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must…
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But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin…
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Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.
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Man, the creature who knows he must die, who has dreams larger than his destiny, who is forever working a confidence trick…
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There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent…
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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have…
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There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but…
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Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an…
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The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars. They have crew cuts and trained minds, sign on for…
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We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio…
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Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Science is dangerous. There is no question but that poison gas, genetic engineering, and nuclear weapons and power stations are terrifying. It…
— Isaac Asimov
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The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have…
— J. B. Priestley
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Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?
— E. C. Bentley
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You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference - to be of genuine…
— Werner Erhard
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When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole…
— Jack Goldstein
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We must learn to cast off our anxieties because we have so many of them. The world destroys spiritual life by generating…
— John Ortberg
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Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at…
— Lord Dunsany
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It was anyway all a long time ago; the world, we know now, is as it is and not different; if there…
— John Crowley
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If the victories we create in our heads were let loose on reality, the world we know would drown in blazing happiness.
— Patton Oswalt
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From one tyrant to another. That is the world we know, now
— Veronica Roth
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Thus we cannot escape the fact that the world we know is constructed in order to see itself. This is indeed amazing.…
— Unknown Author
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