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Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done...
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement...
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness...
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But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty...
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The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he...
Quote #9527
In the whole wretched business there was something generous that was doing its best...
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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your...
Quote #8190
Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall...
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Engineering is a great profession. There is the fascination of watching a figment of...