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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the good.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the good.
Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness. Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile. Not a single one but has at some time wept.
The Boss: The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies that by word or deed.
Rowena: You've got the subtlety of a bullfrog.
The science of the modern school is in effect the acquisition of imperfectly analyzed misstatements about entrails, elements, and electricity.
Go away, I'm all right!
A time when all such good things will be for all men may be coming more nearly than we think. Each one who believes that brings the good time nearer; each heart that fails delays it.
The study of nature makes a man at last as remorseless as nature.
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.
How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles.