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"In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable."
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"If the road behind me is not growing ever longer, then it is likely that the feet underneath me are not moving any longer. And if my feet are not moving, I have somehow, somewhere traded this most glorious journey for lesser endeavors."
"Don't calculate the world." This world is untruthful. Don't stop to do calculation, just keep on moving."
"We stand the risk of a standstill, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks."
"Life is a movement, a constant movement in relationship; and thought, trying to capture that movement in terms of the past, as memory, is afraid of life."
"I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African."
"I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it...but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill."
"Someone who normally moved so slowly, this time, for once, was long gone."
"In Labor movements generally, success through violence can hardly be expected except in circumstances where success without violence is attainable."
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"Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy."
"We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach."
"In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private conversation he was wont to say that homicidal lunatics were well employed in killing each other, but that sensible men would keep out of their way while they were doing it. Fortunately this outlook, which is reminiscent of Bentham, has become rare in this age, which recognizes that heroism has a value independent of its utility. The Last Survivor of a Dead Epoch."
"Mathematics possesses not only truth but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere like that of a sculpture."
"Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept."
"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
"We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought."
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