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"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."
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"People not only stood to respect it but perhaps their thoughts and heartbeats came to standstill, and only inspiration and patriotism was flowing through their veins."
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."
"I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world."
"What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends."
"There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people."
"We need to have a sense of patriotism like Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom first and to our nations second."
"The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."
"I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief."
"Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism."
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"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics."
"You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design. It sometimes takes a rather curious form; for instance, it is argued that rabbits have white tails in order to be easy to shoot. I do not know how rabbits would view that application."
"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved."
"Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts."
"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."
"A great many worries can be diminished by realizing the unimportance of the matter which is causing anxiety."
"The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the rich and powerful."
"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this."
"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."
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