The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
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The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
Robert Lynd in The Pleasures of Ignorance (1921)
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Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
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Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Robert Lynd in The Blue Lion and Other Essays
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There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
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There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.
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No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.
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There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
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