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“A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.”

Richard Aldington

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“All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism." ("Sacrifice Post")”

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Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.

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“The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries.”

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Such shame is not even skin deep. And as to forgetting, surely, you know that is Woman's First and Greatest Art?

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Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a…

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Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

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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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