All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.
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Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.Rebecca West
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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
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