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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society. 
The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a direc... 
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. 
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person. 
God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends. 
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person 
God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends. 
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity tha... 
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. 
The greatest possession is self-possession. 