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Jacob Bronowski

"The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show."

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"The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show."

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"The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men."
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"Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime."
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"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature."
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