Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
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One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.Aldous Huxley
Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.
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