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Life means progress, and progress means suffering.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon / Historian
Mean
Political
Suffering
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It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.
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Darkness
Enough
Littles
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Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.
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Dilemma
Somewhere
Epigram
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Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.
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Civilization
Portal
Sacred
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The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
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History
Men
Records
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An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person.
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Facts
Ignorance
Ignorant
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A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.
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Science
Ignorance
Ignorant
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The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
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Art
Dance
Aggravation
Barometer
Congress
Our World
Arts
Debates
Happening
Market
Stock
Stock Market
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In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.
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Cases
Dilemma
World
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Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
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Failure
Ignorance
Thinking
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The world is in dreadful need of men who will assume the new leadership - who will have the courage of their own visions and who will recognise clearly that we are only at the beginning of the voyage, and have to learn an entirely new system of seamanship.
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Leadership
Men
Needs
Vision
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In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.
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Congratulations
Country
Father
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....This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future.
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Fairy Stories
Long
Sea
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High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed
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Land
Long
Years
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The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when it took courage to question all things and made 'knowledge and understanding' the foundation upon which to create a more reasonable and sensible society of human beings.
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Foundation
Understanding
Yesterday
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Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the gates of the Paradise of Perfection, but who nevertheless will give the very best there is in them because the work they do means more to them than anything else in this world.
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Art
Greatness
Mean
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