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"Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began."
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"Things start out as hopes and end up as habits."
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"One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb."
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"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
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"Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began."
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"There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over."
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"High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless."
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"You know you've reached the end of a relationship: when your lover now demands that your jokes be funny before they laugh."
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"They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style."
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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end."
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"It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end."
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"Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical."
History
"Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began."
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"True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is."
Life
"If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter."
Men
"The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art."
Art
"As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased."
Power
"In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition."
Character
"The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment."
War
"With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama."
Act
"Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history."
History
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