Philip Wylie Quotes
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Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
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What egotism, what stupid vanity, to suppose that a thing could not happen because you could not conceive it!
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God must hate common people, because he made them so common.
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One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
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There is no advance without strife.
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Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.
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If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
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Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
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But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts, one solitary body of information, one everything. Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.
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Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression.