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But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately and passionately concerned... There was a time when Free Love versus Catholic Morality was a question of as much importance to our hot bodies as if a pistol had been clapped to our heads. Further back, there were times when we wondered with all our souls, what the world was, what love was, what we were ourselves.
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The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats...
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There is a thing called knowledge of the world, which people do not have until they are middle-aged. It is something which cannot be taught to younger people, because it is not logical and does not obey laws which are constant. It has no rules. Only, in the long years which bring women to the middle of life, a sense of balance develops…when she is beginning to hate her used body, she suddenly finds that she can do it. She can go on living…
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Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically — to those who hardly think about us in return.
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The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.
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Yes, that is the equality of man. Slaughter anybody who is better than you are, and then we shall be equal soon enough. All equally dead.
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The bravest people are the ones who don't mind looking like cowards.
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And shall the Schoolmen die?
And shall the Schoolmen die?
Five hundred men of Lilliput
Will know the reason why.
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Wars are never fought for one reason," he said. "They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.
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There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves. These gave out a smell of must and solid brownness which was most secure.
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A Humble PRESENT to Our Female MOUNTAIN + From the CITIZENS + BOROUGH of LILLIPUT in EXILE
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Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.
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Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?
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The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.
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They (the enemy) pottered off through Idiot's Utterly, High Hiccough, Malpaquet Middling and Mome.
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It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
May 29, 1906
Died:
January 17, 1964
(aged 57)
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Terence Hanbury "Tim" White was an English author best known for his sequence of Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King, first published together in 1958.
Known for:
The Once and Future King (1958)
The Sword in the Stone (1938)
The Goshawk (1951)
The Book of Merlyn
The Ill-Made Knight (1940)
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