"That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the……" — Olaf Stapledon
"That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad."
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13 Quotes by Olaf Stapledon
Olaf Stapledon has 13 quotes on this site.
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Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones'…
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So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their…
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We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not…
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Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These…
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Great are the stars, and man is of no account to them. But man is a fair spirit, whom a…
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He should avail himself of their resources in such ways as to advance the expression of the spirit in the…
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Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention…
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My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of…
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All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and…
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Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.
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Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.
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Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be…
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More Abroad Quotes
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one of 501 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long…
— Saint Augustine
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
— Saint Augustine
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Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
— Alec Baldwin
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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.
— John Quincy Adams
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It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are…
— Bhumibol Adulyadej
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I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for…
— Bill Bryson
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
— Samuel Butler
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The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a…
— Tucker Carlson
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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly…
— William Ellery Channing
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own…
— Winston Churchill
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Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to…
— Kofi Annan
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We should strengthen our immigration laws to prevent the importation of foreign wages and working conditions. We should make it…
— Edward Kennedy
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