"It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed."

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"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."

"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."

"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea."

"I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all."

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"It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too."

"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."

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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

"The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us."

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"I've been &amp; am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen &amp; I'm quite ordinary, &amp; will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself."

"The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God."

"This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought."

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"The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor."

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