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““What followed for two hours was such an adventure as only wretched amateurs would indulge in...””

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All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

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Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

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Communism worked honestly by officials devoid of human frailties and devoted to nothing but the good of its slaves, would have certain manifest material advantages as compared with a proletarian wage-system where millions live in semi-starvation, and many millions more in permanent dread thereof. But even if it were administered thus Communism would only produce its benefits through imposing slavery.

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I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner,…

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Had there been any existent vital and energetic institution left in Society after the Reformation for the use of small property in coordinated form-that…

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Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good…

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Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age: for now…

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It is Mind which determines the change of Society, and it was because the mind at work was a Catholic mind that the slave became a serf and was on his way to becoming a peasant and a fully free man-a man free economically as well as politically. The whole spirit of the Church was for small property, and that…

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For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mine,Or loved them half as much as I did. [stanza 3]The library was most inviting:The books upon the crowded shelvesWere mainly of our private writing:We kept a school and taught ourselves. [stanza 15]From quiet homes and first beginning,Out to the undiscovered ends,Theres nothing worth…

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The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and commercial activities,…

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Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was…

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Torture will give a dozen pence or more To keep a drab from bawling at his door. The public taste is quite a different…

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I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier.

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I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody else. And that's what I love about random words and phrases taken out of context: everyone applies their own context. If you want to apply something political or meaningful to a word I wrote on the…

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I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth…

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What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film.

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“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The…

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A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

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“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took part in a range of risk-taking adventures when they were younger, and finally became wise when they reflected upon their lives in old age. There is only one problem.” “Which is?” “Risk-taking is a way to…

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“Love can give you such happiness, then can break the very heart it filled, leaving a hole that can never be fixed or protected…

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“It always gave Wolf a peculiar thrill thus to tighten his grip upon his stick, thus to wrap himself more closely in his faded overcoat. Objects of this kind played a queer part in his secret life-illusion. His stick was like a plough-handle, a ship's runner, a gun, a spade, a sword, a spear. His threadbare overcoat was like a…

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