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There is a sentence in the Old Testament which I think has some reference to our situation today. It says: "And you shall be cursed because thou did not serve thy God, in joy and gladness amidst the abundance of things." [Deuteronomium 28:47] We have an abundance of things but we serve them and without joy and gladness.

What matters is that new forms of propertylessness will do away with the sexual greed that is characteristic of all having societies.

The small tool of death was like a dynamo of life.

Below there are cyclists, lorries, men; it is a grey street and a grey subway;—it affects me as though it were my mother.

A bitch. No prostitute. A bitch. If you were a Russian you would understand.

The blonde girl twitters: "Bread—good——

I tell you it is the vilest business to use horses in the war.

Her blind endorsement of Hitler's regime first faded to a kind of sympathetic skepticism, but as summer approached

The reference to the Lusitania was obvious enough," he recalled later, "but personally it never entered my mind for a moment that the Germans would actually perpetrate an attack upon her. The culpability of such an act seemed too blatant and raw for an intelligent people to take upon themselves.

These were complicated people moving through a complicated time, before the monsters declared their true nature.

She also has some choice observations to offer about Fisher. "I said both to my father and Winston that though I did not doubt Lord Fisher's genius I thought him dangerous because I believed him to be mad" (quoted in Hough, Winston and Clementine, 284). On another occasion, she remarked, "What a strange man he is!" (quoted in Hough, Winston and Clementine, 306).

Galveston was too pretty, too progressive, too prosperous—entirely too hopeful—to be true.

The list of appetizers included stuffed eagles' eggs.

compose memoranda with brevity and limit their length to one page or less. "It is slothful not to compress your thoughts," he said.

women "would do far better if the brain were very lightly tasked.

considered Churchill to be capricious

Her place already was luxurious, with a bowling alley where the pins were bottles of chilled champagne

My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim.

They are blue. Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.

The essence of war is violence and moderation in war is imbecility. -Admiral Jacky Fisher of the British Navy

The delay you are causing us by not forwarding scale drawings is embarrassing in the extreme.

phenomenon for which the word-minting power of the German language did not fail: Zweifrontenkrieg.

Churchill had a formula for family size as well. Four children was the ideal number: "One to reproduce your wife, one to reproduce yourself, one for the increase in population, and one in case of accident.

All the ship had to do was make another turn, away from U-20, and the chase would be over.