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"For the most part people went about their business with an entirely irresponsible confidence in the stability of the universe."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn't."
"If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest."
"My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death."
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"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."
"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."
"There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile."
"It doesn't follow that a nasty habit of mind is any less nasty because it's ancestral. It doesn't follow you can't cure it. Why scratch fleas for ever? Gambling, speculation, is a social disease. It's as natural and desirable as -- syphilis..."
"We do our job and go. See? That is what Death is for. We work out all our little brains and all our little emotions, and then this lot begins afresh. Fresh and fresh! Perfectly simple. What's the trouble?"
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