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"Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past."
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"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."
"I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it."
"President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record."
"If you don't want your past to own you, try owning your past."
"The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?"
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"I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind."
"We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization."
"The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality."
"There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country."
"The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised."
"That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision."
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