All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
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We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
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Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.
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To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
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A lot of people you think you know you don't know until you find out you don't know then it may be too late to know.
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In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.
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The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
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Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
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The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.
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It is lack of confidence, more than anything else, that kills a civilisation. We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
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