| The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together. |
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- Havelock Ellis |
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| There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. |
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- Havelock Ellis |
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| We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide. |
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- Havelock Ellis |
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| Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. |
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- Havelock Ellis |
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| Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive. |
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- Havelock Ellis |
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| The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. |
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- Havelock Ellis |
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| "Charm" - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm. |
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- Havelock Ellis |
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| All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. |
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- Havelock Ellis |
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| To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. |
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- Havelock Ellis |
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| The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands. |
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- Havelock Ellis |
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| Those persons who are burning to display heroism may rest assured that the course of social evolution will offer them every opportunity. |
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- Havelock Ellis |
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| It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else. |
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- Havelock Ellis |
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| What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. |
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- Havelock Ellis |
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| The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. |
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- Havelock Ellis |
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