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"One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good."
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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."

"You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half."

"Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world."

"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."

"The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down."

"Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose."

"The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world."

"I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat."
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"Roman Catholicism is a broken and utterly desperate thing, capable only of malignant mischief in our awakening world."

"Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of the American mentality. Outwardly they are sentimental and enthusiastic and inwardly they are profoundly cynical."

"Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind."

"Things were rather larger, more obvious and rougher on the American side, but the issues were essentially the same. The general public voted and demonstrated, but its voting seemed to lead to nothing. It felt that things were done behind its back and over its head but it could never understand clearly how. It never seemed able to get sound news out of its newspapers nor good faith out of its politicians. It resisted, it fumbled, it was becoming more and more suspicious and sceptical, but it was profoundly confused and ill-informed."

"After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true."

"We've got to escape from narrowness. We're a movement, not a conspiracy. We've got to radiate contacts, and have as many people aware of us as possible. That's living, modern common sense."

"Particularly nauseous were the blank expressionless faces of people in trains and omnibuses; they seemed no more my fellow-creatures than dead bodies would be, so that I did not dare to travel unless I was assured of being alone."

"You have dwelt overmuch upon pain. Pain is a swift distress; it ends and is forgotten. Without memory and fear pain is nothing, a contradiction to be heeded, a warning to be taken. Without pain what would life become? Pain is the master only of craven men. It is in man's power to rule it."

"It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it."
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