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I would not regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier.

Arthur Harris

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In reference to the UK's continued strategic bombing of German cities during World War II.

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Harris, Arthur. Letter to Norman Bottomly. 29 Mar. 1945.

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It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well.

Aldous Huxley

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Huxley, Aldous. Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist. Chatto & Windus/George H. Doran, 1925.

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Whether ours shall continue to be a Government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

Archibald Cox

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Cox, Archibald. Statement after being dismissed by President Richard Nixon. 20 Oct. 1973, Washington, DC, USA.

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Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay.

Stephen Jay Gould

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Gould, Stephen Jay. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. W. W. Norton & Co., 1989, preface.

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I love you... That is what they were all saying down their phones, from the hijacked planes and the burning towers. There is only love, and then oblivion. Love was all they had to set against the hatred of their murderers.

Ian McEwan

On the last messages received from those trapped in the Twin Towers on 9/11.

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McEwan, Ian. "Love and then Oblivion. Love was all they had against their murderers." The Guardian, 15 Sept. 2001.

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Dinosaurs are a touchstone that separates the mentality of children from that of adults.

Dale Russell

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Russell, Dale. An Odyssey in Time: The Dinosaurs of North America. NorthWord Press, 1989, preface.

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Europeans often ask, and Americans do not always explain, how it happens that this great office, the greatest in the world, unless we except the Papacy, to which any man can rise by his own merits, is not more frequently filled by great and striking men.

James Bryce

The American Commonwealth

On the American Presidency.

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Bryce, James. The American Commonwealth. Vol. 1, London: Macmillan and Co., 1888, ch. 8.

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Words have weight, sound, and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Maugham, William Somerset. The Summing Up. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1938, ch. 13.

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To trust your intuition is exactly the opposite of any sort of formal education.

Chris Burden

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Burden, Chris. Failure: Documents of Contemporary Art, edited by Lisa Le Feuvre. MIT Press, 2010. Originally spoken during an interview with John Bewley, c. 2010.

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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

James Thurber

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Thurber, James. "The Duchess and the Bugs." Lanterns & Lances. Harper & Brothers, 1961.

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A man who entertains in his mind any political doctrine, except as a means of improving the condition of his fellows, I regard as a political intriguer, a charlatan, and a conjuror.

Anthony Trollope

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Trollope, Anthony. An Autobiography. Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1883, ch. 16.

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Trollope, Anthony. "An Autobiography." An Autobiography and Other Writings, edited by Nicholas Shrimpton. Oxford University Press, 2016, ch. 16.

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Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle... Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

Peter Kropotkin

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Kropotkin, Peter. Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. McClure Phillips & Co./William Heinemann, 1902, ch. 1. Originally published in The Nineteenth Century, c. 1890.

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Some people think football is a matter of life and death... I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

Bill Shankly

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Shankly, Bill. Guardian. 24 Dec. 1973.

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One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey, but I like to go by myself. I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.

William Hazlitt

On Going on a Journey

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Hazlitt, William. "On Going a Journey." Table-Talk; Or, Original Essays. Vol. 2, London: H. Colburn.

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Hazlitt, William. "On Going a Journey." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt, edited by Duncan Wu. Vol. 6, Routledge, 2020.

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One goes to Nature only for hints and half truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

John Burroughs

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Burroughs, John. "A Sharp Lookout." Signs and Seasons. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886.

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Burroughs, John. "A Sharp Lookout." Signs and Seasons. Syracuse University Press, 2006.

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In research the horizon recedes as we advance, and is no nearer at sixty than it was at twenty. As the power of endurance weakens with age, the urgency of the pursuit grows more intense... And research is always incomplete.

Mark Pattison

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Pattison, Mark. Isaac Casaubon, 1559-1614. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1875, ch. 10.

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The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

Edward Steichen

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Steichen, Edward. Speech in New York City. 90th Birthday Party c. 27 Mar. 1969, Plaza Hotel, New York City, NY, USA.

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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Franklin P. Adams

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Adams, Franklin P. Nods and Becks. Whittlesey House, 1944.

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The wind of change is blowing through this continent, and, whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Harold Macmillan

On African national consciousness.

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MacMillan, Harold. Speech at the 50th anniversary of the Union Parliament. 3 Feb. 1960, Cape Colony Parliament, Capetown, South Africa, Africa.

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This will be a campaign unlike any other in history. A campaign characterized by shock, by surprise, by flexibility, by the employment of precise munitions on a scale never before seen, and by the application of overwhelming force.