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" Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. "

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" On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. "

" Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. "

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" Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. "

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" There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction. "

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" Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing. "

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" Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. "

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" As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. "