Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.
("A Separate Peace")
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There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.
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It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart
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All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way-if he ever attacked at all; if he was indeed the enemy.
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Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.
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